Meet the new boss. Same as the underlings of the old boss.

So it seems that French politics is tangled up in the Web. Via the New York Times:

[T]he Internet has proved to be an exasperating source of embarrassment for this country’s ruling class. In particular, a stream of widely popular online videos has repeatedly exposed French politicians at their least stately

According to one French media observer, the Internet is “changing the relationship between the politician and his fellow citizen . . . ‘desanctifying’ a once untouchable political class.”

The response of the once untouchable political class?

Touchy.

French government official:

We can no longer say anything, we can no longer do anything. It’s absolute transparency — it’s the beginnings of totalitarianism!

Okay, so government transparency equals totalitarianism (defined by The American Heritage Dictionary as “imposing a form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life”)?

So the people are now the problem?

Paging Alice. Paging Alice in Wonderland.