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Originally Posted by AVoiceOfReason
Here are the seven promises:
1. Make government open and transparent.
2. Make it "impossible" for Congressmen to slip in pork barrel projects.
3. Meetings where laws are written will be more open to the public. (Even Congressional Republicans shut out.)
4. No more secrecy.
5. Public will have 5 days to look at a bill.
6. You’ll know what’s in it.
7. We will put every pork barrel project online.
I frankly think 3 and 4 are part of the same promise, but nevertheless, it's pretty breathtaking.
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1 and 4) One of the first things Obama did was issue
a new FOIA memo that directs all federal agencies to
presume that FOIA requests should be honored ending the Bush policy of finding any means to deny FOIA requests. By any measure, that means more open and transparent. IMO, one of the most important, but little known actions, of Obama's first days in office.
2) The stimulus bill to create jobs in the short term by its very nature will provide funding to local projects. Call it pork if you want...projects to provide jobs.
3)
Obama met with Republicans in both the House and Senate and included some of their suggestions on the tax relief side of the stimulus bill. Beyond that, this is a Congressional matter that the Republicans have grossly misrepresented and you obviously bought into. The current rules in the House and Senate are more open then they were under the Republicans....
it doesnt mean the minority party gets an equal seat at the table. The Republicans didnt complain in 07-08 when the Democrats first assumed the majority because they had the "veto" wild card in the WH.
5) Three or four days instead of five...the bill passed Congress on Friday and will be signed on Tuesday....slap him down on this one.
6 and 7) The White House created a website,
recovery.gov, that will list the projects funded...after the bill is signed.
So, I think its fair to say that the notion of seven broken promises is bullshit. What more do you want in one month?
And you call yourself, A Voice of Reason?
Focus man, focus....on facts, not right wing talking points!