Maybe the guy just enjoys get­ting awards for things he didn’t do.. Okay, first he gets the Nobel peace prize forty sec­onds after the elec­tion, before he even had a chance to break all his cam­paign promises about end­ing the wars — and cer­tainly before he got us all into a new one for no very good reason.

Now he gets a prize for trans­parency in gov­ern­ment. Oh, wait — you didn’t hear about that? No rea­son you should have, I sup­pose…

Pres­i­dent Obama finally and qui­etly accepted his “trans­parency” award from the open gov­ern­ment com­mu­nity this week — in a closed, undis­closed meet­ing at the White House on Monday.

The secret pre­sen­ta­tion hap­pened almost two weeks after the White House inex­plic­a­bly post­poned the cer­e­mony, which was expected to be open to the press pool.

[The Ulti­mate Answer to Kings]

At least gov­ern­ment has become more effi­cient in one way: they’re so good at mock­ing them­selves that there’s hardly even any need for any­one else to do it. This is right up there with Bush com­par­ing the “lib­er­a­tion” of Iraq with the Phillip­ine War of Independence.