McLiar/Palin Contempt for Rule of Law (and Democracy)

Glenn Greenwald writes:

[W]ith the heavy involvement of the McCain campaign, Gov. Palin has embraced core GOP “principles”—political officials can unilaterally exempt themselves from the rule of law and the people, through their elected representatives in the legislature, are powerless to learn what their political leaders have done. That, of course, has been the guiding principle of the Bush administration—as one Bush official after the next has simply refused to comply with Congressional subpoenas as part of investigations into serious allegations of lawbreaking and other wrongdoing—and the McCain campaign and the Palins are leaving no doubt that they are full-fledged believers in these corrupt and lawless prerogatives.

This sort of lawless arrogance doesn’t merely insulate political officials from any accountability, though it does do that. It also destroys the crux of representative democracy.