Well, as long as James Kirchick has a weeklyish column in Politico, I'll have a weeklyish blog post where I point out all the errors, or as many as I find. 

For someone who often claims that liberals don't take conservative ideas seriously, how little respect Kirchick has for liberal ones. Take his riff on Obama's FISA vote, which we all know has hurt his standing with the netroots. Kirchick says that "this is an issue about which the vast majority of the American people
couldn’t care less, but it’s of monumental importance to the Netroots,
who see it as confirmation of their deepest and darkest fears that Vice
President Cheney is out to get them."

The news of a Bush administration adviser selling influence in exchange for Presidential library donations ought to make it clear of the need for transparency in these institutions. Between this case and former President Bill Clinton's shady fundraising for his own legacy palace, these projects have become no more than lame-duck slush funds.