Posted on 05/04/2011 12:26:45 PM PDT by UniqueViews
Among Barack Obama's first actions as president was signing a memo pledging his administration to "an unprecedented level of openness in government." But according to a House hearing and outside watchdog groups, those promises have so far been a giant bust.
Republican Cliff Stearns of Florida, who heads the oversight subcommittee at House Energy and Commerce, yesterday hosted a hearing on White House openness. Mr. Obama pitched transparency during the 2008 campaign partly to draw a contrast with the Bush presidency, which many liberals liked to cast as dark and secretive. Yet to listen to evidence presented at the hearing, the Obama administration is not only less transparent than promised but in many ways more opaque than its predecessors.
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The most open and transparent administration in history.
CHANGE!! CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN!!!
“Obama’s Empty Transparency Rhetoric”
He is transparent. I’ve seen right through him since day one...
‘Unprecedented’ was a word carefully chosen - there has never been a less transparent Administration, making it’s transparency level ‘unprecedented’...;)
‘Unprecedented’ was a word carefully chosen - there has never been a less transparent Administration, making its transparency level ‘unprecedented’...;)
Empty, stupid, happy-talk.
I wish I could credit the original freeper who created that phrase.
Bump!
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