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To: michael97123 who wrote (454386)	2/5/2009 1:53:28 PM
From: longnshort	2 Recommendations Respond to of 1574848

Obama Administration Fails Its Own Transparency Promise Just Days Later from the is-it-that-difficult? dept While some of the complaining in the press about President Obama's lack of transparency is overblown, you would think that the new administration could at least live up to the rather simple promises it made days ago on transparency. On inauguration day, the administration promised, among other things: We will publish all non-emergency legislation to the website for five days, and allow the public to review and comment before the President signs it. That's great! If only it actually happened. Jim Harper points out that Obama signed the "Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009" into law just a day after Congress sent it to him. This is a "non-emergency" law. The Whitehouse did put it on the website for review, but not for five days. And, it's especially troubling since there actually is a fair amount of controversy over the law. No matter whether you support it or not, the administration made a great promise that we support: putting it up on the website for five days to allow public review and comment, before the President signs it. And they didn't live up to that.

To: michael97123 who wrote (454386)	2/5/2009 2:35:17 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574848

CNBC says harry reid expects a vote on stim bill today as is. If this passes as is, can they still add new items in conference with house? Maybe thats the strategy. Pass it by party line and a few reps in senate. Then in conference good dems take out and add per obama input?? That might be a great political outcome for obama and a brilliant political move. I hope Reid has the votes lined up and the GOPers don't play the same trick they did with the TARP. Frankly I think the dems screwed this up badly. This bill should have been very clean...instead they behaved as typical politicians do and added items that in the end represented small amounts of money but gave the reps a perfect platform to bash them with and take the initiative away from them. Now they are losing many of these questionable provisions anyway and the bill has stalled as a result. Both Reid and Pelosi ought to lose their jobs over this...and Obama has done a poor job too of explaining things to the public. Even this Washington op ed piece is full of abstractions. He needs to do a Reagan style oval office address to the nation...complete with slides and pie charts, classifying all expenses into buckets...tax cuts, infrastructure, extended support for folks who've lost their jobs, banking relief, mortgage relief, etc...and then show the "pork" too...show what's left and what's been removed and then put it in terms of % of total dollars. C'mon man...take the initiative away from these stinking beaurocrats. Damn... Al