A Memo from President Obama: "My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government."
The Reality:
1) President Obama promised to release White House visitor logs. Only 1% of the first 8 months of these records have been released.
2) President Obama promised to show congressional negotiations on C-Span. But he refused to allow healthcare discussions to be televised.
3) President Obama promised to whittle the influence of lobbyists on his Administration. So instead of meeting with lobbyists at the White House (where visitor records could reveal these meetings), Administration officials meet with lobbyists across the street in the Caribou Coffee house.
4) President Obama promised that ex-lobbyists would not work for the White House (again, to decrease lobbyists' influence on his Administration). He even wrote out executive orders restricting their hire. Yet over 40 ex-lobbyists now work for him, including Cabinet secretaries Vilsack and Sebelius, Attorney General Holder, VP Chief of Staff Klain, CIA Director Panetta, and various other Chiefs of Staff, Deputies and Assistants and Associates and what-not.
The Reality:
1) President Obama promised to release White House visitor logs. Only 1% of the first 8 months of these records have been released.
2) President Obama promised to show congressional negotiations on C-Span. But he refused to allow healthcare discussions to be televised.
3) President Obama promised to whittle the influence of lobbyists on his Administration. So instead of meeting with lobbyists at the White House (where visitor records could reveal these meetings), Administration officials meet with lobbyists across the street in the Caribou Coffee house.
4) President Obama promised that ex-lobbyists would not work for the White House (again, to decrease lobbyists' influence on his Administration). He even wrote out executive orders restricting their hire. Yet over 40 ex-lobbyists now work for him, including Cabinet secretaries Vilsack and Sebelius, Attorney General Holder, VP Chief of Staff Klain, CIA Director Panetta, and various other Chiefs of Staff, Deputies and Assistants and Associates and what-not.
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