As the GOP's favorite hockey mom and her running mate try to distance themselves from the Bush administration, inconvenient facts keep cropping up to bond them to Republican shenanigans, past and present.

It's a right hand/left hand thing.  On the stump, they extoll transparency and reform while, behind the rostrom, they struggle to maintain appearances of honor and integrity. 

Case in point: the woman McSame claims will lead the US in some new direction or other is refusing to hand over more than a thousand emails in connection with the Alaska Legislature's Troopergate investigation!

Reformer Governor Sarah fires her Commissioner of Public Safety, then, when investigated, claims executive privilege over private email accounts such as gov.sarah@yahoo.com as the defense for refusing to grant the courts access!

You paying attention, My 2 Cents?

Sound familiar at all? Like Bush's claim of executive privilege when federal investigators discovered White House staffers had used their private email accounts to engineer the political firings of those nine US Attorneys?

This certainly highlights the difficulties of holding elected officials to account when they know that leaving incriminating evidence on official channels could bring them down. 

Remember Nixon's Watergate Tapes? 

Is there really a Republican Angel of Transparent Governance that teaches these obfuscation lessons or are these GOPhers re-inventing this strategy over and over and calling it REFORM!