“Congresswoman” Eleanor Holmes Norton said the White House should operate free from any kind of scrutiny. The representative for the District of Columbia, a non-voting member of the House who was caught four years ago asking for a bribe from a lobbyist, opposed the effort of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to subpoena a White House staffer in an effort to understand if the office violated election law. “You don’t have a right to know everything in a separation of powers government, my friend,” Norton told the committee. “That is the difference between a parliamentary government and a separation of powers government.” But Norton forgets the people have a right to know everything in a representative form of government. That is the difference between an aristocracy and a republic. Politics is a dirty business, and sunlight is the best disinfectant. More…