whitehouse.gov - 1/23/2009
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Government should be transparent . Transparency promotes accountability
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Transparency and Open Government
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"Still getting used to that whole thing," President
Barack Obama said today as he walked into a...
briefing room in the old Executive Office building and roughly 100 staffers and members of the media stood. The crowd laughed, but the...
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President Obama Sets Rules on Ethics and Transparency
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The Era of Transparency Exposed
Flopping Aces —
“transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this Administration”:
Jimmy Kimmel Live: ...
Transparent Phoniness
Moonbattery —
The transparency we were promised:
The transparency we're getting:
How's that for Change?
On a tip from TED.
The RAT Hiding In The Spending Bill
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
Chucky Schumer was half-right … While the unimaginable amounts of money allotted to pet-projects that do nothing for our economy or employment ARE important, we “Chattering Class” aren’t so much concerned with the “porky things” obvious in the spending bill that were getting air time on the news … It’s what was hidden and stealthly slipped into our government that was ‘porked-over’ in order to fuck us over that we were/ARE MORE concerned about …
DC Examiner:
The RAT hiding deep inside the stimulus ...
The RAT Board
Moonbattery —
There was more to the atrocious "stimulus" package than hundreds of $billions of frivolous pork barrel spending that will leave generations of Americans in debt. It also advanced the liberal goals of putting the healthcare industry under direct federal control, and secretively repealing welfare reform so as to breed future generations of state-dependent Democrat voters. Better still for an administration that crawled out of the sewers of Chicago politics, it gives the White House tremendous leverage to squash corruption investigations. A furtive provision in the bill
creates something called the Recovery Accountability and ...
The wrong kind of transparency
Power Line —
Upon taking office, President Obama proclaimed that "transparency will be the touchstone of my administration." Six months later, we learn (via AP) that Obama has decided to put off the annual mid-summer budget update from mid-July, when it usually is released, to mid-August. Apparently, as AP suggests, the White House wants to delay the bad news at least until Congress leaves town on its August 7 summer recess.
The midsummer budget update will surely show higher deficits and unemployment, and slower growth, than that projected in the president's budget and in a May update. This, in turn, would likely complicate Obama's efforts to enact ...
The Obama Lie: ObamaCare Will Be Deficit Neutral…Dems Look To Pass 2nd Bill That Raises Medicare Fees
Flopping Aces —
Remember this?
Yeeeeeah:
Maneuvering to boost prospects for sweeping health care legislation, Senate Democrats hope first to win quick approval for a bill that grants doctors a $247 billion increase in Medicare fees over a decade but raises federal deficits in the process, officials said Wednesday.
By creating a two-bill approach, Democrats intend to claim the more comprehensive health care measure meets President Barack Obama’s conditions — that it will neither add to deficits nor exceed $900 billion in costs over 10 years.
If approved and ...
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So Much For All That Transparency
jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com 1/30/2009 — Remember way back when? You know somewhere around Jan. 21 or so when all the Dems were talking a good game about having transparency in government and none was a bigger spokesperson for this then The One, The Messiah, Mr HopeandChange himself Barack ...
Because of the TRANSPARENCY
proteinwisdom.com 3/29/2009 — Surprise! “Obama Town Hall Questioners Were Campaign Backers” :
[...] while the online question portion of the White House town hall was open to any member of the public with an Internet connection, the five fully identified ...
The Transparency of 'Change'
theneweditor.com 2/13/2009 — If the various reports I've read are accurate, lobbyists got copies of the stimulus bill before the House Repub leadership yesterday ; in addition, we have Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) saying that not one senator has read the bill in its entirety, ...
Obama throws transparency under the bus
redstate.com 2/16/2009 — With the so-called “stimulus” bill, President Obama has thrown the change he promised under the bus.
On his Change.gov website , Obama promised to “end the practice of writing legislation behind closed doors ” - to ...
Transparency v. evasion
prairieweather.typepad.com 3/22/2009 — The White House seemed utterly blindsided by the public’s revulsion at the moneyed insiders’ culture illuminated by Daschle’s post-Senate career. Yet last week’s events suggest that the administration learned nothing from that brush with disaster. Is ...
Time for Transparency?
corner.nationalreview.com 5/29/2009 — An article in today's Washington Post reports that President Obama's interview of Sonia Sotomayor left President Obama "sure she agrees with the constitutional underpinnings of Roe v. Wade":
"In their discussions, they talked about the theory of ...
Rebuild the Party: New Guards for Transparency
thenextright.com 2/11/2009 — Transparency is an area of genuine opportunity for progress right now, because (1) the majority party promised they would do it, and (2) the minority party has a political incentive to hold the majority to their promise.
However, as easy and ...
This Is Transparency and Accountability?
villainouscompany.com 3/1/2009 — Mona Charen notes "Obama's strange habit of denying what he's doing": Have you noticed his troubling habit of denying what he is doing? For example, in his speech to Congress he said he asked for the stimulus bill "not because...
Obama to sign equal wage bill —
L.A. Times - Politics 1/28/2009
Congress on Tuesday sent the White House what is expected to be the first legislation President Obama signs into law: a bill that makes it easier for women and others to sue for pay discrimination, even if the discrimination has prevailed for years, ...
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