Afraid of the Sunshine

Yesterday's New York Times included this editorial:

One, and only one, Congressional Republican has decided that unregulated money should not be allowed to swamp this campaign year. Representative Michael Castle of Delaware is daring to co-sponsor a bill to repair some of the damage from the Supreme Court’s decision to give corporations and unions free rein to spend unlimited amounts on campaign ads and advocacy.

...But the rest of the Republicans are shying from the idea. This is the same G.O.P. that insisted that disclosure was far better than any campaign spending regulations. “Republicans are in favor of disclosure,” Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, declared in 2000 when he was fighting campaign reform legislation.

Has he somehow forgotten? The voters should remind him. The latest Quinnipiac poll shows the public registering 79 percent disapproval of the court’s ruling.