By any name Disclose Act is a terrible idea

Like my ol’ Pappy used to say, “Great minds travel in the same plane, but fools just think alike.”

On Sunday George Will also wrote about the Disclose Act.

“In Congress, Democrats have not yet put the final blemishes on their proposal for restricting political advocacy, the Disclose Act (a clunky acronym — Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections), but already it is so awful it is excellent,” Will eloquently writes in his Washington Post column. “Its nakedly partisan provisions, and the squalid process of trying to ram them into law, illuminate the corruption that inevitably infects what is supposed to be a crusade to purify politics: When constitutional rights are treated as negotiable, the negotiations corrupt the negotiators.”

Most of the liberal media are all for the Disclose Act, as I pointed out Sunday.

Will, right, managed to find a far better alternative acronym than I managed to devise. Best I could do was: Disgusting Invasion of Constitutional Logic on Speaking Ease

Will gave us one from Bradley Smith, former chairman of the Federal Election Commission, who said Disclose should stand for Democratic Incumbents Seeking to Contain Losses by Outlawing Speech in Elections.

Constitutional rights should not be tampered with by Congress.