The People's House ... Not

Remember during the Clinton years how all the indignant righties referred to the White House as the People's House. As with nearly all things, the right's belief only applies to Democrats and not Republicans.

An observant reader left a link in the comments that takes us to this story on MSNBC. Here's the lede:

The White House and the Secret Service quietly signed an agreement last spring in the midst of the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal declaring that records identifying visitors to the White House are not open to the public.

Transparency is one of the hallmarks of American government. Yet, at ever turn, we find an administrtion that has thrown out American values in order to hide from the public its practices of patronage.