Which is it?

Extreme righties are opposed to H.R. 5175.

Lefties favor the act but are opposed to exempting the NRA from disclosure:

WASHINGTON — Forty-five political and advocacy groups, including the Alliance for Justice, the League of Conservation Voters, and the Sierra Club, have warned House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that they will oppose new campaign finance and disclosure reforms unless an exemption in the bill created to placate the National Rifle Association is dropped.

The bill, known as the DISCLOSE Act, seeks to establish new campaign spending restrictions on government contractors and foreign companies, while imposing more disclosure requirements on corporations, unions, and political groups that run ads in federal elections... a response to the Supreme Court’s January ruling in the Citizens United case, which rejected most limits on corporate and union spending in elections.

In a letter to Pelosi dated today, the groups say proposed changes to the legislation would exempt the NRA from disclosure requirements, without benefiting any other organization.

"It is inappropriate and inequitable to create a two-tiered system of campaign finance laws and First Amendment protections, one for the most powerful and influential and one for everyone else," the groups wrote. "There is no legitimate justification for privileging the speech of one entity over another, or of reducing the burdens of compliance for the biggest organization yet retaining them for the smallest."

http://www.boston.com/...

Here we are again, right between a rock and a hard place because of political dealmaking.

And, it is quite apparent that extreme righties have shat a great number of steel bricks over the idea of campaign finance disclosure.

I don't know why they are having so many problems with disclosure, why they want so much secrecy in regard to campaign finance. They appear to have reached a high state of hysteria from what I see from search results on the net.

And, I wonder what entity is providing the steel bricks.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce perchance?

Dick Armey and his FreedomWorks?

And what about Koch Industries?

For a sweet little rundown on Koch Industries and their $48 million dollar campaign on behalf of climate change denial see a post by EllinorRiane in Kos on April 6, 2010:
http://www.dailykos.com/...

Koch Industries would most assuredly be interested in covering up their campaign finance tracks...

(Wichita, Kansas) Here in the middle of the country, the boardroom in Koch Industries must be awash in smiles. Long-time anti-tax activists, who have been willing to spend under current laws (often through third party entities like Americans for Prosperity), the Kochs and their privately held corporation will now have the running room to directly threaten any elected official they want. Dislike a Member of Congress? No problem, spend a couple million to run essentially unanswerable ads in the last 10 days of a campaign.

Many corporations will steer clear to explicit campaign messages, but the Kochs and many others will find it one more way to "invest" in controlling the political process. In no way is this an improvement in the campaign dialogue, and it's not meant to be. Rather, the entire point for the Kochs and others will be to skew the messaging process in ways that eliminate the possibility of dialogue....

Burdett Loomis, Professor of Political Science, University of Kansas, on Citizens United and Koch Industries at:
http://lobbying.nationaljournal.com/...

Sigh! Here am I, once again between the devil and the deep blue sea.

And the sea ain't blue anymore, it's tarry and filled with crude oil slurry and awash with dead dolphins and whales and fish and all kinds of critters.

Footnote: Lawrence Lessig at Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

But the perpetually näive were then deeply disappointed by the puny response to Citizens United that the House Democrats and the Administration came up with. The DISCLOSE Act no doubt has good ideas in it. No doubt, things would be better -- a little, on the margin -- if it passed, and if it survived hostile Supreme Court review. But the idea that this is the response to perhaps the most significant change in the economy of campaign influence in a century just hurt. Here was a chance for the Democrats to rally a nation to real reform. Here was a chance, squandered.

But now comes the "pathetic" that gets added to this "puny." The House Democrats have now agreed to a critical exemption from the reach of the DISCLOSE Act. Any 501(c)(4) group which has been around for more than 10 years, and which has more than 1,000,000 dues paying members, some in each state, and derives no more than 15% of its budget from corporate or union funding, is to be exempted from the transparency requirements of the Disclose Act.

Which groups will get the benefit of this carve out? Only one of prominence that would actually need or use the exemption: the NRA.