A commenter on my agreement with Dick Cheney speculated what might be next: Reagan, Mecham, Graf? Well, I gotta say, the fact is even stranger than the speculation. In what is becoming an on-going series, the latest right wing nut job that I happen to have some small and likely transient area of bi-partisan kumbayah is Grover "Drown It In The Bathtub" Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform. Grover seems to have gotten a bug up it about government transparency, and I have to say I’m all for that. He recently published a piece in the Financial Times that I wholeheartedly applaud and support:

"The nice venture capitalists in Silicon Valley are always looking for “the next big thing”. While we will have to wait for another six months to learn who will make it through the Republican and Democrat “Survivor” reality show we call primaries we can already see the next big thing in politics bubbling up from the 50 states: transparency. Making state budgets, contracts and individual expenditures available to the public on the internet."

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