Thursday, January 7, 2010
No C-SPAN for Health Care Wrangling?
With all the talk during candidate Obama's presidential run regarding transparency and accountability, perhaps it's right he catches some flack with the recent denial of open, transparent debate with the health "reform" bills in the House and Senate?
Perhaps you've heard the story going around lately? Here's the take at C-SPAN. What's the view from White House press secretary, Robert Gibbs? The Washington Examiner records an interesting exchange on this topic. How's that for transparency and accountability? I even found that elusive letter that remains unseen by Robert Gibbs, and you can see it, too. Something tells me Robert Gibbs might be avoiding seeing this letter (cue stunned music).
True, the president is part of the executive branch, while congress is part of the legislative branch of government. But if I remember right, the promise of "no new taxes" made by president Bush--though this was an issue for the legislative branch--was something that brought quite a lot of pain to the president at the time when not delivered.
Broken promises:
Perhaps you've heard the story going around lately? Here's the take at C-SPAN. What's the view from White House press secretary, Robert Gibbs? The Washington Examiner records an interesting exchange on this topic. How's that for transparency and accountability? I even found that elusive letter that remains unseen by Robert Gibbs, and you can see it, too. Something tells me Robert Gibbs might be avoiding seeing this letter (cue stunned music).
True, the president is part of the executive branch, while congress is part of the legislative branch of government. But if I remember right, the promise of "no new taxes" made by president Bush--though this was an issue for the legislative branch--was something that brought quite a lot of pain to the president at the time when not delivered.
Broken promises:
Labels: accountability, C-SPAN, debate, health care, House, Obama, promise, Robert Gibbs, Senate, transparency
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