text: For four years, Obama's actions have undermined his rhetoric on transparency and on standing up to the special interests. So it's fitting that he'll kick off his second four years with reduced disclosure regarding large contributions from politically connected corporations.Timothy P.Carney, The Examiner's senior political columnist, can be contacted at /* */!function(t,e,r,n,c,a,p){try{t=document.currentScript||function(){for(t=document.getElementsByTagName('script'),e=t.length;e--;)if(t.getAttribute('data-cfhash'))return t}();if(t&&(c=t.previousSibling)){p=t.parentNode;if(a=c.getAttribute('data-cfemail')){for(e='',r='0x'+a.substr(0,2)|0,n=2;a.length-n;n+=2)e+='%'+('0'+('0x'+a.substr(n,2)^r).toString(16)).slice(-2);p.replaceChild(document.createTextNode(decodeURIComponent(e)),c)}p.removeChild(t)}}catch(u){}}()/* */ His column appears Monday and Thursday, and his stories and blog posts appear on washingtonexaminer.com.