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."