Maureen Dowd rides again with a shap-edged piece call Absolute Power Erupts

She says: "The White House says it wants greater harmony, but it's acting like the thought police. Having run into resistance in their bid for global domination, the president and vice president are going for federal domination, pushing out anyone with independent judgment who puts democracy above ideology.

It's a paradoxical game plan: imposing democracy abroad while impeding it here."

(Of course the ground truth is that it is not truly being imposed there, either.)

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