More brilliance from a one-term president:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Obama-closes-curtain-on-transparency-468557-100595914.html
President Obama has abolished the position in his White House dedicated
to transparency and shunted those duties into the portfolio of a
partisan ex-lobbyist who is openly antagonistic to the notion of
disclosure by government and politicians.
...
Bauer's own words -- gathered by the diligent folks at the Sunlight
Foundation -- show disdain for openness and far greater belief in the
good intentions of those in power than of those trying to check the
powerful.
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"One of the most surprising things I learned as a young man working his
way from the hinterlands of a multi-national behemoth into the lofty
towers of headquarters is that quite simply, they do not know. They are
too often just frightened people making it up as they go along. Decision
making too often comes down to verbal acuity, cults of personality,
tides of emotion, and totemistic tribalism...It is hard to think of a
better characterization of the Obama Administration than a dysfunctional
US corporation led by a high profile CEO surrounded by mediocre
functionaries with enormous egos and retinues, bounded by special
interests, losing its long-time monopoly status, foundering on the
unyielding rocks of change. The decline of the Soviet Union redux, writ
larger."
-- http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/
"One criterion to judge any struggle by is the extent to which it gets
co-opted by those in power."
--Unknown.
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