Bloodless Coup

Just What Don't the Republicans Want You to See?

This administration has long been so secretive that it's as if all of Richard Nixon and William Casey's fondest dreams about how the executive branch should be run suddenly come true. I'm still hoping despite my intuition and four years of evidence to the contrary that things aren't quite that bad. Though it sure does feel that way a lot of the time with this president in power, and what would a disaster in this administration be without more secretive power grabs and curbs on the people's ability to know what their government is actually up to. On the heels of recent moves to curtail, or stop entirely, media reports in New Orleans, we now have had the ugly scene of the House approving spending $52 billion of your money - $52 BILLION - without letting the Democrats in Congress even see a copy of the legislation.

In the wake of a catastrophe like this when so many Americans are working hard, trying to rebuild the country and support one another, isn't it reassuring that we have "uniters" running Washington?