"The Federal Election Commission marked this one-year anniversary of the Citizens United case by failing to do anything to provide better disclosure of runaway secret campaign spending brought about by the Supreme Court's decision. The weak-by-design Commission, governed by six commissioners evenly divided by party, could not get a majority to vote to open a rulemaking addressing the disclosure issues raised by the case. The agency’s inaction was not on final rules that would become the law of the land. The agency couldn’t even agree to put out proposed rules and let the public comment on whether the proposals would work. It’s sadly reminiscent of the filibusters used by Congress to kill the DISCLOSE Act in Congress last year. Disclosure is apparently so distasteful in some quarters that the people entrusted to make our laws can’t even discuss it, for fear there it might lead to greater transparency.
The FEC’s current disclosure rules for independent expenditure and express advocacy communications, written before the Supreme Court opened the door to vastly more corporate and union money to infiltrate campaigns, are woefully out of date."
I still think "feckless" FEC has a better ring to it.
