And this is Transparency???...
Posted By: sm on 2009-01-13
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If I remember right when Hillary went on the Letterman show she gave him a list of questions he could ask. I guess that happened on many occasions. Now the fellow who was going to have a transparent administration is already shutting down communications with the American people.
Nothing like a little secrecy or putting the fix in the media to encourage trust.
For the full story: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/w.....-out-obama
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Sun-Times: Journalists Being Shut Out by Obama
By Warner Todd Huston (Bio | Archive)
January 12, 2009 - 21:43 ET
According to Sun-Times columnist and long-time Chicago journalist, Carol Marin, journalists at Barack Obama news conferences have come to realize that Obama has pre-picked those journalists whom he will allow to ask him questions at the conference and many of them now "don't even bother raising" their hands to be called upon.
One wonders why journalists are allowing this corralling of the press? Would they have allowed George W. Bush to pre-pick journalists like that? Would they meekly sit by and allow themselves to be systematically ignored, their freedom to ask questions silenced by any Republican? Would journalists so eagerly vie with one another for the favor of Bush like they are Obama's? |
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Transparency......
Our government is supposed to be transparent to the US citizens. Where is that? They now say an agreement has been reached. Well, I want to see the paperwork, boys!! It's our money; we have EVERY right to see it in writing. Let the people see it. Put it online. It's simple. When they REALLY figure out the trillions we will be paying, not 700 billion (what a joke), they should establish the amount, post it online or mail it to every citizen in this country, show every time they make a payment to that account, so on and so forth, until the last payment has been made ONLY to that account, so you will see the money has not somehow once again found its way to some "museum in a cornfield, study to see how hippos mate, where fireflies go at night", and every other conceivable idiotic way they have abused your taxes.
After all, it's not their money.
Yea, right....transparency my butt!!
WH refuses to hand over the visitor list..... after all, didn't he say he was going to be MORE transparent than other administrations? Bull!! That man told so many lies on his campaign trail....
Considering I pay for that big 'ol house he lives in, and he preached transparency, then why not hand over the visitor list. Actually, the U.S. citizens are supposed to have it given to us without asking. And for those of you who will once again find excuses for this man.... NO, he does not have a reason not to, except as usual he has been seeing people he shouldn't be around and people that no doubt would expose him for what he is...
No, the issue of transparency with earmarks did not escape me
but his reasoning was, at times, questionable. It appears as though he is going to take the money and run unlike some of his compatriots who are "attempting" to refuse stimulus money.
Earmarks Include:
- Add-ons. If the Administration asks for $100 million for formula grants, for example, and Congress provides $110 million and places restrictions (such as site-specific locations) on the additional $10 million, the additional $10 million is counted as an earmark.
- Carve-outs. If the Administration asks for $100 million and Congress provides $100 million but places restrictions on some portion of the funding, the restricted portion is counted as an earmark.
- Funding provisions that do not name a recipient, but are so specific that only one recipient can qualify for funding.
So much for transparency. Treasury refuses to give bank bailout information.
This again from the McClatchy news group, which is not conservative by any means:
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/65195.html
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