The 'transparent' administration

USMarine · **Joined:** Thu Aug 07, 2008 4:55 am **Posts:** 10483

cowpie540 wrote:

giddy up

You go, Cowboy.... :lol:

Moby Grape · **Joined:** Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:19 pm **Posts:** 13802

edge540 wrote:

Sotero...?....Who's Sotero?

another ''informed'' democrat...who votes...

here's another display of obama transparency...

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Most transparent White House ever...
Politico, by Ben Smith

Police chased reporters away from the White House and closed Lafayette Park today in response to a gay rights protest in which several service members in full uniform handcuffed themselves to the White House gate to protest "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." People who have covered the White House for years tell me that's an extremely unusual thing to do in an area that regularly features protests. A reporter can be seen in the YouTube video above calling the move "outrageous" and "ridiculous."

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/ ... ml?showall

Moby Grape · **Joined:** Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:19 pm **Posts:** 13802

edge540 wrote:

freetime wrote:

On the disappointed side, I'm sorry Obama didn't sdeliver a public option.

Me too.
However it's not all his fault.

I don't get it....why do these ''informed'' citizens get so upset when DUMBO repeatedly fails to deliver on his campaign promises?

I mean these idiots..... they'll sit there again and again listening to this bald faced liar while he shovels his bucket load of bullshit lies? and then, with some warped sense of false security tell the rest of us that change is right around the corner...

I mean wtf?

some of us saw this coming 2 years ago,

and the worst is yet to come because of these morons.

next up?....buying your votes with toasters and refrigerators...

with MY money.

Moby Grape · **Joined:** Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:19 pm **Posts:** 13802

Same day he bashes Republicans for not backing the Disclose Act

GOTTA LOVE THAT TRANSPARENCY

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Obama Meets With Big Donors
New York Times, by Jackie Calmes

President Obama met with about 50 of the Democratic Partyâ€™s biggest donors on Tuesday night at an upscale Washington hotel, but aides excluded reporters from the event since the president did not give a speech.

â€œThe President will stop by a gathering of some of our strongest Democratic supporters and long-time friends. Heâ€™s not scheduled to give remarks,â€ an aide said before Mr. Obama left for the Mandarin Oriental hotel.

Mr. Obamaâ€™s press secretary, Robert Gibbs, was asked about the closed fundraiser earlier in the day at a White House briefing for reporters. â€œWe make open the events in which the President is going to speak,â€ he said.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010 ... ig-donors/

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Obama's Lack of Disclosure
FrontPage Magazine, by Michelle Malkin

You know when a politician starts a sentence with â€œfrankly,â€ heâ€™s about to lie to your face. The same principle applies to campaign finance legislation dubbed the â€œDISCLOSE Act.â€ The voterâ€™s instinctive reaction should be: What are they trying to hide now? Drafted out of public view with left-wing lobbyists and rammed through Congress after bypassing committee hearings, this bum bill would have been better named the CLOSEDDOOR Act.

At a Rose Garden press conference on Monday, President Obama decried the influence of â€œshadow groupsâ€ on elections and urged the Senate to pass the â€œreformâ€ sponsored by N.Y. Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer. But the loophole-ridden package exempts large nonprofits with 500,000 or more members. Behemoth labor unions get preferential treatment. Bradley Smith, former Federal Elections Commission chairman, noted that the law places radical speech-squelching restrictions on companiesâ€™ ability to run independent political ads: â€œ(I)f youâ€™re a company with a government contract of over $10 million (like more than half of the top 50 U.S. companies) or if youâ€™re a company with more than 20 percent foreign shareholders, you canâ€™t even mention a candidate in an ad for up to a full year before the election. â€¦ There are no similar prohibitions for unions representing government contractors or unions with foreign membership.â€

GOP Sen. Mitch McConnell put it more starkly during Tuesdayâ€™s debate before the Senate cloture vote on the bill: The DISCLOSE Act, he said, is a â€œtransparent attempt to rig the fall elections.â€ At bottom, McConnell diagnosed correctly, this is a jobs-protection bill for entrenched incumbents more interested in protecting their hides than protecting the Constitution. While the cloture vote fell three votes short of the needed 60 on Tuesday, Schumer vowed to resurrect the issue â€œagain and again and again until we pass it.â€

http://frontpagemag.com/2010/07/28/obam ... isclosure/

Moby Grape · **Joined:** Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:19 pm **Posts:** 13802

Moby Grape wrote:

CHALK UP ANOTHER ONE!

These are the very same people Skippy labeled ''FAT CATS''

GOTTA LOVE THAT TRANSPARENCY

AND HIS LIES

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SEC Says New FinReg Law Exempts It From Public Disclosure
Fox Business Network, by Dunstan Prial

So much for transparency.

Under a little-noticed provision of the recently passed financial-reform legislation, the Securities and Exchange Commission no longer has to comply with virtually all requests for information releases from the public, including those filed under the Freedom of Information Act.

The law, signed last week by President Obama, exempts the SEC from disclosing records or information derived from "surveillance, risk assessments, or other regulatory and oversight activities." Given that the SEC is a regulatory body, the provision covers almost every action by the agency, lawyers say. Congress and federal agencies can request information, but the public cannot.

That argument comes despite the President saying that one of the cornerstones of the sweeping new legislation was more transparent financial markets. Indeed, in touting the new law, Obama specifically said it would â€œincrease transparency in financial dealings."

The SEC cited the new law Tuesday in a FOIA action brought by FOX Business Network. Steven Mintz, founding partner of law firm Mintz & Gold LLC in New York, lamented what he described as â€œthe backroom deal that was cut between Congress a

http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2010 ... isclosure/

Moby Grape · **Joined:** Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:19 pm **Posts:** 13802

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GOP to urge White House not to shred documents
Washington Examiner, by J.P. Freire

Armed with subpoena power, members of the House Republicans are expected to urge President Obama not to shred any documents. According to The Hill:

Darrell West, a political scientist and director of governance studies at the Brookings Institution, said Republicans likely will formally ask the administration not to shred or delete any relevant documents that could be requested in a congressional probe.

â€œThatâ€™ll happen right away, because they want to make sure that the documentary record is preserved so that they have something to investigate,â€ said West.

Armed with the House majority, Republicans next year will enjoy subpoena power â€” something they have not had in four years.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opini ... 42613.html

Moby Grape · **Joined:** Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:19 pm **Posts:** 13802

The latest from the whining Fascist sorry ass losers.

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WH Working on Executive Order That Critics Say Will Stifle Political Speech
Cybercast News, by Fred Lucas

Washington (CNSNews.com) â€“ In what the White House calls a push for transparency, a pending executive order would require companies doing business with the federal government to disclose political contributions to independent groups, but would not place the same requirement on public employee unions or federal grant recipients that typically donate to Democrats.

Entitled the â€œDisclosure of Political Spending By Government Contractors,â€ the order would implement parts of the DISCLOSE Act, which failed to get through Congress last year. The legislation sought to restrict campaign speech after the landmark Citizens United vs. Federal Elections Commission U.S. Supreme Court ruling that upheld the right of corporations and unions to donate to campaigns.

http://cnsnews.cloud.clearpathhosting.c ... rway-execu

Moby Grape · **Joined:** Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:19 pm **Posts:** 13802

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Obama Administration punishes reporter for using multimedia
SF Gate, by Phil Bronstein

The hip, transparent and social media-loving Obama administration is showing its analog roots. And maybe even some hypocrisy highlights.

White House officials have banished one of the best political reporters in the country from the approved pool of journalists covering presidential visits to the Bay Area for using now-standard multimedia tools to gather the news.

The Chronicle's Carla Marinucci - who, like many contemporary reporters, has a phone with video capabilities on her at all times - pulled out a small video camera last week and shot some protesters interrupting an Obama fundraiser at the St. Regis Hotel.

She was part of a "print pool" - a limited number of journalists at an event who represent their bigger hoard colleagues - which White House press officials still refer to quaintly as "pen and pad" reporting.

But that's a pretty Flintstones concept of journalism for an administration that presents itself as the Jetsons. Video is every bit a part of any journalist's tool kit these days as a functioning pen that doesn't leak through your pocket.

In fact, Carla and her reporting colleague, Joe Garofoli, founded something called "Shaky Hand Productions" - the semi-pro, sometimes vertiginous use of a Flip or phone camera by Hearst reporters to catch more impromptu or urgent moments during last year's California gubernatorial race that might otherwise be missed by TV.

The name has become its own brand; often politicians even ask if anyone from Shaky Hand will show at their event. For Carla, Joe and reporters at other Hearst newsrooms where Shaky Hand has taken hold, this was an appropriate dive into use of other media by traditional journalists catering to audiences who expect their news delivered in all modes and manners.

That's the world we live in and the President of the United States claims to be one of its biggest advocates.

Just the day before Carla's Stone Age infraction, Mr. Obama was at Facebook seated next to its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, and may as well have been wearing an "I'm With Mark" t-shirt for all the mutual admiration going back and forth.

"The main reason we wanted to do this is," Obama said of his appearance, "first of all, because more and more people, especially young people, are getting their information through different media.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/bro ... y_id=87978

"The main reason we wanted to do this is," Obama said of his appearance, "first of all, because more and more people, especially young people, are getting their information through different media.

he wants HIS media to be your sole source of information.

Moby Grape · **Joined:** Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:19 pm **Posts:** 13802

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White House shuts out Herald scribe
Boston Herald, by Hillary Chabot

The White House Press Office has refused to give the Boston Herald full access to President Obamaâ€™s Boston fund-raiser today, in e-mails objecting to the newspaperâ€™s front page placement of a Mitt Romney op-ed, saying pool reporters are chosen based on whether they cover the news â€œfairly.â€ â€œI tend to consider the degree to which papers have demonstrated to covering the White House regularly and fairly in determining local pool reporters,â€ White House spokesman Matt Lehrich wrote in response to a Herald request for full access to the presidential visit.

http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/v ... position=1

HERE IS THE OBAMA TRANSPARENT ADMINISTRATION FOLKS

everyday it seems we see yet another indication that this is all a load of horseshit from these people.

This administration is nothing but a bunch of liars, thieves, control freaks, hypocrites, ex convicts, future convicts and thin skinned pussies.

Moby Grape · **Joined:** Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:19 pm **Posts:** 13802

and yet another.

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Obama White House Bans
Newspaper For Printing a
Mitt Romney Op Ed
Big Journalism, by Walter Todd Huston

Apparently the Obama White House is not so fond of the Boston Herald. Well, maybe â€œnot so fondâ€ is too mild. More like furious. So mad, in fact, that the paper was banned by the White House from covering local visits by Obama and crew. The Boston Herald said â€œpretty pleaseâ€ and Big Brother Oâ€™s crew said, â€œnot allowed!â€ And Orwell would be saying, â€œI told ya so.â€ As Politico explained, the White House designates local pool reporters to augment the traveling pool of reporters covering events on the road. Usually

http://bigjournalism.com/wthuston/2011/ ... ney-op-ed/

Moby Grape · **Joined:** Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:19 pm **Posts:** 13802

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White House to cut access to half of federal websites
Washington Times, by Dave Boyer

As part of the Obama administrationâ€™s campaign to promote transparency, the White House announced today it intends to eliminate the publicâ€™s access to half of the federal governmentâ€™s websites within the next year. The White House said there are nearly 2,000 websites operated by the federal government, which it said confuses people. â€œWith so many separate sites, Americans often do not know where to turn for information,â€ the office of Vice President Joseph Biden Jr. said in a statement. â€œThe administration will immediately put a halt to the creation of new websites.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201 ... -websites/

Moby Grape · **Joined:** Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:19 pm **Posts:** 13802

Most transparent White House ever...

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Obama mum on details from secret
AFL-CIO meeting, critics bill
it as more WH union favoritism
Daily Caller, by Matthew Boyle

President Barack Obama met behind closed doors with labor union bosses from the AFL-CIO on Tuesday morning. Itâ€™s unclear what happened in the closed-door meeting, which Obama fit into his schedule before the debt-ceiling smoke began settling. Spokespersons for the Obama administration have not responded to The Daily Callerâ€™s requests for comment on what specifically the president discussed with AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka and other union bosses.

http://dailycaller.com/2011/08/03/obama ... m-from-wh/

Moby Grape · **Joined:** Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:19 pm **Posts:** 13802

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White House-ACORN smoking gun
Washington Times, by Matthew Vadum

Why is an affiliate of the disgraced group ACORN lobbying the White House? White House visitor records show that attorney Estelle H. Rogers, director of advocacy at ACORN-affiliated Project Vote, met with a senior aide to Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett and with Van Jonesâ€˜ former chief of staff. Is a single visit to the White House normally cause for concern? Not necessarily, but this is a visitor from the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), an organization infamous for massive voter fraud and that at one time employed the president of the United States.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201 ... oking-gun/

Looks like the looting has begun.

Moby Grape · **Joined:** Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:19 pm **Posts:** 13802

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Shameless: Obama Finding New
Ways to Shatter Transparency Pledge
Townhall, by Guy Benson

We unmasked one shameless fraud earlier, so why not keep it rolling by highlighting another? Let's revisit the "change" millions of Americans were hoodwinked by in 2008 and early 2009:

"The way to make government responsible is to hold it accountable. The way to make government accountable is to make it transparent, so the American people can know exactly what decisions are being made, how they're being well made, and whether their interests are being well served...For a long time now, there's been too much secrecy in this city. The old rules said that if there was a defensible argument for not disclosing something to the American people, then it should not be disclosed. That era is now over, starting today."

Obama even devoted a cute little portion of the White House website to congratulating himself over how transparent and accountable his administration would be. Flash forward to today. Helen touched on these stories over the weekend, but I thought I'd underscore them again, just to emphasize what an imposter this guy truly is:

Story one - The White House has refused to turn over all Solyndra documents to House investigators:

House Republicans investigating the loan controversy had requested all internal White House documents about the issue. House Energy and Commerce subcommittee chair Rep. Cliff Stearns said that includes emails on the Presidentâ€™s Blackberry. On Friday the White House Counsel sent a letter to the House Energy and Commerce Committee explaining they wonâ€™t comply with the request because it â€œimplicates longstanding and significant institutional Executive Branch confidentiality interests.â€

The response is hardly a surprise given past administrationsâ€™ refusal to comply with similar congressional requests. The difference here? President Obama is the first Chief Executive to carry a Blackberry, so itâ€™s the first time a White House counsel has â€“ even indirectly â€“ turned down an attempt to peek at his email. Neither the Blackberry nor his personal email is explicitly mentioned in the letter.

But...I thought the era of not disclosing pertinent information about whether the people's "interests are being well served" over traditional legalisms was over. Nah, that was all window-dressing to dupe his starry-eyed supporters into swallowing the whole change charade.

Story two: The administration is bending over backwards to block the release of White House visitor logs:

READ MORE

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/ ... ncy_pledge

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