In the midst of the IRS scandal, Robert Bauer, Obama’s top pick to lead the new Presidential Commission on Election Administration launched an attack on Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell, calling his opposition to new campaign finance disclosure legislation “Disclosure Games” and no more than rhetoric and fancy that misleads our forgetful and easily duped American populace. Below is a key excerpt from the volley against McConnell:

“It is enough to say for purposes here that the charge he makes, and that the like-minded scribe repeats, is smoking with rhetoric and flights of fancy, and it depends for its force on a a failure of the audience’s long –term memory.“

Now Mitch McConnell has thick skin and this attack will have no impact on the Senator’s deliberation or decisions on such constitutional issues.  The bigger question is how can Obama’s former White House Counsel serve on a non-partisan commission and expect to offer non-biased recommendations when he free-lances on his blog with political attacks against individuals who disagree with him, including questioning the integrity of the position.  Regardless of the wisdom of the post, it is fair to conclude that congressional adoption of election reform recommendations from Bauer just became more unlikely.