Audacity

I think this comment from the NYT article will go down as an epitaph for this administration:

In an interview on Monday, Jeffrey A. Rosen, general counsel at the White House Office of Management and Budget, said, “This is a classic good-government measure that will make federal agencies more open and accountable.”

It perfectly captures their firm belief in the essential rightness of this administration's policies, whether we like it or not. Rosen's confidence comes from the same place that TPM Muckraker hits upon in this post on Condi Rice's evasion of Jim Webb's direct question regarding the administration's ability to attack Iran without Congressional approval. Link

Webb's questions really answer themselves, don't they?