Must-read column on the failure of most Senators to file their campaign finance reports electronically.  A taste:

The hypocrisy of the system is rich. Two weeks ago, Franken and Schumer, who don’t file their reports online, held a press conference in Washington to declare their intention to introduce legislation to require full and complete disclosure, not of their own campaign finance reports, but of the reports filed by super PACs.

The senators didn’t return my calls. But the Minneapolis Star Tribune quoted Franken as saying that the rise of hidden money is “turning people off.”

“We have to make some changes or the American people are going to get so cynical, as we know they already are,” Franken’s hometown paper quoted him as saying. The comedian-senator must have gotten a hearty laugh.