Remember how then candidate Obama promised the most transparent administration evah?
Among the promises he made was to post all bills online well in advance of a vote. What we didn’t see was the fine print caveat that said “unless people will hate it but we still want to pass it.” Yeah that.
Now, the administration is stonewalling over Fast & Furious including this legendary redacted document turnover.
Well, as it turns out, this pattern of transparency was no accident.
On Dec. 7, 2009, the administration conducted a meeting that focused on transparency in government, as per Obama’s promise. After some debate, they decided to hold the meeting–IN SECRET.
The secret transparency in government meeting. Priceless. Irony is lost on them.
October 19, 2011 at 10:26 pm
Oh!!! The inkmanity!
October 19, 2011 at 10:38 pm
So…we've had a government conspiracy to practice covert transparency all this time and nobody knew about it? Must have been because they were openly keeping it a secret…and being so covertly open about letting the people see the nothing that they had planned for us to not see.
Or something like that.
Perhaps the press said nothing (as they tend to do) and leaked said transparency, causing the rich to get richer off the backs of nobody.
We must therefore tax the rich for 55% of their nothing because they have plenty of nothing, and nothing is plenty for them.
The disparity between the have-nothings and the have-nots is increasing day by day! President Obama needs to step-up and show us the covert change and unseen hope that he secretly promised in '08.
We the people really need to see the nothing to truly appreciate it for what it is.
In actuality, I wish he had done nothing. We'd be in better shape now.