Backroom meeting should be held at all. We have a deliberative body mandated by the Constitution to work out compromises in the open for all to see, it’s called Congress.
21 posted on 07/14/2011 7:18:27 PM PDT by eclecticEel
(Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: 7/4/1776 - 3/21/2010)
Do you really imagine the Founding Fathers, who held closed executive sessions to debate their new Constitution, actually intended totally open government?
I think you have some other group in mind ~ really.
23 posted on 07/14/2011 7:22:18 PM PDT by muawiyah