White House gets 'A' for openness

Politico ^ | 1/12/10 | KENNETH P. VOGEL

[Nachum]

Under fire for backing away from a campaign promise to open up health care negotiations to C-SPAN cameras, the White House on Monday highlighted a report from a coalition of watchdog groups awarding the Obama administration an “A” for its openness.

The report — released by the nonprofit groups Common Cause, Democracy 21, the League of Women Voters and U.S. PIRG — gave the administration high marks across the board for its various initiatives to increase transparency and reduce the power of lobbyists, both of which were key elements in candidate Barack Obama’s campaign pledge to change the way Washington works.

[Nachum]

Stop, I'm dizzy from all this spinning!

[Nachum]

The list, ping

[ReleaseTheHounds]

Gag me with a spoon!

[KansasGirl]

What a crock of spit.

[Caipirabob]

Openly Communist, certainly!

[ridesthemiles]

I have been suspicious of the “League of Women Voters” for years.
This just cements my thoughts.

[Maceman]

Unbelievable. This has to be from the Onion.

[Nachum]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8BmIf1A3js&feature=fvw

[originalbuckeye]

Well, it is now obvious that those groups are complete Left-wing hack groups who will now have NO CREDIBILITY. The League of Women Voters always sponsors one of the Presidential debates. Next time we need to protest them for being completely partisan.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Watchdogs ha. How about lapdogs.

Of course they might BE on an “inside track” email list and so can measure “transparency” by that standard, rather than by what John Q. Public sees.

[Monterrosa-24]

So some Leftwing groups like THE LEAGUE OF WOMEN VIPERS claim that Obama’s admin has contributed to transparency in govt. Wow. His core support remains his core is all this shows.

[Cicero]

When I was a little boy, the League of Women Voters was trusted and impartial.

They sure have sunk a long way. Killed by the feminists.

[ExTexasRedhead]

This Administration of Thugs and this Congress composed of arrogant, in-your-face, anti-American Elitists are as open as Hitler’s regime or any other dictator throughout history.

Their arrogance deludes them into thinking we’re morons and we’re buying their propaganda. Like Patton says in the movie, “Rommel, I read your book.” Sorry, Obama, we’ve read our history books and can recognize the enemy.

[Tzimisce]

Obama has an entire panel of “Czars” - none of them are open to public scrutiny.

Obama doesn’t want to release the White House visitor logs.

He won’t tell us who’s getting the TARP money.

This is COMPLETELY absurd!

[sodpoodle]

Must be some sort of Maoist or Islamic alphabet.

[gigster]

Barf-O-Rama!

Barf-O-Bama!

[broken_arrow1]

What planet are these people on?

[wildehunt]

Shame on my lyin’ eyes.

[marvlus]

This is satire, right?

[Paine in the Neck]

... an “A” for its openness.

The report — released by the nonprofit groups Common Cause, Democracy 21, the League of Women Voters and U.S. PIRG

"All us lefty grifters can get into the WH whenever we want."

[GeronL]

What a joke. What openness? The Black Panther thing?

[ArrogantBustard]

Ummm ...

Bull$#!+.

[Grumpybutt]

As my husband would say..... somebody’s smoking crack.

[Major Matt Mason]

Politico shames themselves by reporting this nonsense. These are liberal hack organizations, period. Their opinion is meaningless when it comes to this president.

[Allegra]

No agenda for these "watchdog groups," I guess.

Riiiiiight.

[Outlaw Woman]

The report — released by the nonprofit groups Common Cause, Democracy 21, the League of Women Voters and U.S. PIRG

at least an explanation is provided

[<1/1,000,000th%]

What a surprise.

The left loves obama.

[Dewey Revoltnow]

Sounds like the WH graded their own paper.

[camerongood210]

Who the hell would give this administration an A?

[blau993]

reduce the power of lobbyists

I think he hired most of them. I suppose, in a highly technical sense, that reduces their power as lobbyists.

[Gator113]

Insane lying losers.

[kidd]

Oddly enough, this ‘A’ for openness
is the only grade of Obama’s that we know about

How’s that for irony.

[Ben Mugged]

Republican senators have accused Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) of violating new transparency requirements during the Senate healthcare debate.

[autumnraine]

Satire ping... satire ping.... hey, you forgot the satire ping!

[Lazamataz]

Oh.

My.

God.

• Hiding Health Care proceedings from the public.
• Introducing legislation an hour before voting on it.
• 1 AM votes.
• Sealing AIG information until 2018.
• Not permitting the vetting of Czars.
• Holder's Justice Department stonewalling FOI requests about the Black Panthers probe.

That's all I remember for THIS MONTH. Don't make me go back to November!

[Lancey Howard]

I didn’t see the Communist Party USA mentioned...
Did the Communist Party USA also give Ubama’s administration an ‘A’ for “openness”?

[Matt Hatter]

“Who the hell would give this administration an A?”

I guess that would be the same folks who gave us social promotions in the public schools! That’s the first thing I thought of when I saw the headline.

[Boonie]

President given A+ for openess by 100% of those asked to grade:

Michelle Obama
Harry Reid
Nancy Pelosi
M Obama
B Obama
H reid
Ms Pelosi

These were the randomly polled people.

[ColdOne]

Who are these people trying to fool???????

[surrey]

Thirty years ago when we first moved to MA. a neighbor asked me to go with her to League meeting. At the time, I knew nothing about it and didn’t know any of the women. As the years went by and I got to know these women pretty well it became very apparent to me what the League was all about. To the woman they were all Libs.

[potlatch]

The only openness is SHOWING HIS AGENDA.

[The Comedian]

And in related news, these "watchdog" groups would like to congratulate Obama on his upcoming 2012 re-election, with approximately 104% of the vote already counted for the light-skinned, no-Negro-dialect-unless-he-wants-it Communist Agitator-in-chief.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[Boonie]

Obama has strengthened America in his first year....

This released by.....................The White House

*ROFLMO*

[Niteranger68]

Paging Orwell...

[Boonie]

This like, “Slippery Rock college number 1 basketball team in America!”

released by Slippery Rock Colleg sports information director.

[markomalley]

[McGruff]

Pardon me for going off topic but I've just inherited this from my second uncle on my mothers side.

Would any of you fine people be interested in purchasing it? Any democratic friends or relatives who might be interested?

[Manic_Episode]

Not to mention no Press Conferences for 6 months.

Transparent as lead.

Sheesh, talk about Baghdad Bob Syndrome!

[Dahoser]

Who the hell would give this administration an A?

We would. (And who in hell would be a more accurate way to ask the question.)

[NonValueAdded]

you gotta be crapping me