Getting used to it

Man, it's almost jarring to hear this coming out of the mouth of the President of the United States:

“Starting today,” Mr. Obama said, “every agency and department should know that this administration stands on the side not of those who seek to withhold information, but those who seek to make it known.”

This is going to take some getting used to.

I've been thinking for a while now that never in my life has the US government actually been on my side: even during the Clinton years, Newt controlled the agenda, and anyway, Clinton was busy reinventing the Democratic Party (which meant granting lots of concessions to the Republicans). But now we have a genuine liberal Democratic majority in Congress and a liberal in the White House, and the Reagan era is definitely over. So it's nice to finally see what the US government looks, acts, and sounds like when it's being run by my guys from top to bottom.