Goldwater's Ghost brought this up a few days ago, and the story has been simmering since. The co-opted media hasn't been giving it much shrift, but that's to be expected. Andrew Breitbart provides this great little video showing the President promising 8 times to do the health care deliberations in public, on C-SPAN. C-SPAN's honcho Brian Lamb has even made the request.
Madame Speaker seems to be a little peeved at the suggestion that the work be done in public, taking a little swipe at The One in the process. Seems she thinks Mr. Obama promised quite a few things while campaigning that he's not living up to.
I don't see it as much a swipe at "The One" as I do a condescending backhand to the 53% of the American public who bought into his transparency rhetoric.
ReplyDeleteDon't blame me, I voted for Kodos.
Watch Dems start distancing themselves from the President on the "transparency" theme.
ReplyDeleteA recent Pew Research Center poll shows people consider the two most important events of the decade to be 1. The 9/11 terrorist attacks and 2. Barak Obama's election.
ReplyDeleteWhich was the greater disaster for our country?
http://people-press.org/report/573/