Pot, meet kettle; goose sauce, meet gander...

From ABC News via Corpus Callosum comes this comment by Condoleezza Rice on Russia:

"In any country, if you don't have countervailing institutions, the power of any one president is problematic for democratic development," Rice told reporters after meeting with human-rights activists.

"I think there is too much concentration of power in the Kremlin. I have told the Russians that. Everybody has doubts about the full independence of the judiciary. There are clearly questions about the independence of the electronic media and there are, I think, questions about the strength of the Duma," said Rice, referring to the Russian parliament...

As Joseph says, "One of the architects of the US Unitary Executive policy is criticizing a democratic ally for concentrating too much power at the top. The zebra is calling the tiger striped. Eve is calling Adam naked. The Emperor is boasting about his fine new suit." The pot's calling the kettle black. The devil's rebuking sin. Stones are being tossed by a dweller in a glass house... As they say in Russian, чья бы корова мычала, а твоя молчала. Грешник, прикидывающийся невинным. And можно надолго продолжать, we could go on for quite a while.

But there really isn't anything to say. It just takes my breath.