Hey, remember when Obama promised his administration would be open and transparent?
Is this ringing any bells? Hope? Change? Transparency?
Yeah... Well get a load of this:
C-Span has asked Democratic leaders to open their negotiations on a final health care bill to live television coverage. But despite promises of transparency, Democratic leaders may be reluctant to agree.
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The House and Senate are preparing to abandon the traditional approach of melding their health care bills in a conference committee, which would allow for some floor debate — and television coverage.
But that approach would also give Republicans a chance to filibuster and stall the process. So Democratic leaders have decided to hash out their differences on their own, which probably means most of the negotiations will take place behind closed doors with White House officials.
Mr. Lamb said in an interview that C-Span had been able to cover final negotiations on most bills, with the exception of appropriations. He said he wrote the letter because C-Span had already covered hundreds of hours of the health care process, and he wanted to make sure that leaders knew C-Span was interested in following it to the end.
Much of the negotiating that led to passage of both the House and Senate health care bills, however, was done in private.
Source: NY Times
How is it that as more people are able to see through the Obama agenda, the less transparent the Obama agenda becomes?
