Frankly, the lack of tolerance in the Obama Administration for any criticism is one of its consistent themes. I guess the “transparency” that Candidate Obama spoke about is a “two-way mirror” (a real misnomer–it should be a “one-way glass”), where they get to watch us, be we don’t get to watch them. As they gather more and more power to themselves, they will have increasing ability to use that power to silence their critics. They are already regulating the auto industry and the banking and mortgage industry, and are seeking to regulate local public transit, all health care, and all energy production.

The combination of increased centralization of power and intolerance for free speech is the same thing that Democrats constantly recite as the essential crime of the Nixon Administration. Yet there is every indication that the Obama Administration is seeking a level of imperial power that Richard Nixon could only dream of.