Showing posts with label Transparency. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Transparency. Show all posts

Friday, January 16, 2015

If this were GWBush...!

January 16, 2015 Barack Obama , Email 0 Comments
Docs: Ahead Of 2012 Presidential Election Lois Lerner Begged Supervisor Not to Visit IRS Office

Katie Pavlich, Jan. 14, 2015, Townhall

“These new documents, withheld for years contrary to law, suggest that a top IRS official may have obstructed investigations into the IRS scandal. Even Lois Lerner objected to her boss’s travel to the infamous Cincinnati IRS office, falsely accused by Barack Obama as being solely responsible for the abuse of the First Amendment rights of his critics,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement. “These documents also show the IRS knew early on that it was abusing its authority and innocent Americans through burdensome information requests and improper collection of the names of donors to groups that threatened Obama’s reelection. This IRS scandal is just getting started. Obama’s cover up of his administration’s suppression of his political opposition continues to unravel.”

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Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Which was...

December 02, 2014 Barack Obama , Democrats 0 Comments
Dem Senator: 'We All Knew' The Truth About Obamacare

Truth Revolt, Nov. 17, 2013

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) admitted Sunday to knowing the promises President Obama made about his signature health care plan were false. On ABC’s This Week, fill-in host Martha Raddatz asked Gillibrand where she felt misled by Obama, considering the fact that the President said that Americans who wanted to keep their health care plans could do so.

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Wednesday, November 26, 2014

How libs REALLY think about the great unwashed

November 26, 2014 Jonathan Gruber , Marc A. Thiessen 0 Comments
Thank You Jonathan Gruber For Revealing Obamacare Deception

Marc A. Thiessen, Nov. 17, 2014, Washington Post

In yet another video, Gruber says the Obama administration knew the individual mandate was a tax, but that if Americans knew the truth “the bill dies.” So the bill “was written in a tortured way to make sure [the Congressional Budget Office] did not score the mandate as taxes.” He adds that “the lack of transparency is a huge political advantage” and that “the stupidity of the American voter . . . was really, really critical for the thing to pass.”

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Sunday, November 23, 2014

Dude, neither is CNN

November 23, 2014 CNN , Freedom of the Press 1 Comments
WH Adviser To CNN: Big Broadcast Nets Just Not That Important Anymore

Matt Wilstein, Nov. 20, 2014, Mediaite

As CNN’s Brian Stelter reported this week, the White House “put out feelers” to see whether the big networks would be willing to disrupt their regular programming, during November sweeps, to carry the president’s address. But after receiving a lukewarm response, they decided not to formally request the time on those stations.

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Saturday, November 15, 2014

From the "stupid" taxpayers

November 15, 2014 Jonathan Gruber , Obamacare 0 Comments
EDITORIAL: Jonathan Gruber's Payday 

Washington Times, Nov. 13, 2014

The MIT economist who is the brains behind Obamacare has made quite a stir with his admission that President Obama’s health care takeover was built on lies. Mr. Gruber says he was willing to say and do whatever it took to advance the scheme, and now it’s clear why. Obamacare made Mr. Gruber a multimillionaire, and at the expense of the taxpayers.

Video of Mr. Gruber’s remarks, delivered at a University of Pennsylvania health care conference last year, has surfaced in which he explained how the details of Obamacare were kept under wraps until the measure was rammed through the Democratic Congress with no opportunity for anyone to read the legislation. “Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage,” Mr. Gruber said. “Call it the stupidity of the American voter, or whatever. But basically, that was really, really critical to getting the thing to pass."

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Friday, November 14, 2014

It isn't just GOP

November 14, 2014 Affordable Care Act , Jonathan Gruber 0 Comments
GOP’s Anti-Obamacare Push Gains New Momentum In Wake Of Gruber Video

Robert Costa and Jose A. DelReal, Nov. 12, 2014, Washington Post

The Republican Party’s ardent campaign against President Obama’s health-care law gained new momentum Wednesday as lawmakers reacted angrily to assertions by an architect of the policy that it was crafted in a deliberately deceptive way in order to pass Congress.

On both sides of the Capitol, leading conservatives said they may call economist Jonathan Gruber to testify about his remarks, which were made last year and surfaced this week in a video on social media. In the video, Gruber suggests that the administration’s signature health-care legislation passed in part because of the “stupidity of the American voter” and a “lack of transparency” over its funding mechanisms.

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Saturday, August 9, 2014

Brazen!

August 09, 2014 IBD , Inspector General 0 Comments
41 IG's Send Unprecedented Letter To Congress: WH Is Preventing Oversight/Investigations

IBD Editorials, Aug. 8, 2014, News.investors.com

Orwellian: Another official in the "most transparent administration" claims to have lost emails sought by investigators, while dozens of government auditors complain that Obama officials repeatedly obstruct their probes.

Anyone who has ever tried to pry any information out of President Obama's administration comes to the same conclusion: Despite repeated promises of openness, it is the most paranoid, controlling and impenetrable in history.

Take the plight of the inspectors general.

In an unprecedented letter to Congress, 47 IGs blasted the administration for "serious limitations on access to records" that have impeded their investigations. The letter specifically cited cases at the Justice Department, the EPA and the Peace Corps, the latter of which had been withholding — of all things — sexual assault records against its volunteers.

"Even if we are ultimately able to resolve these issues," they told lawmakers, "the process is often lengthy, delays our work, and diverts time and attention from substantive oversight activities."

Meanwhile, a Health and Human Services official claims to have deleted some of the emails sought by a congressional probe into the Healthcare.gov launch fiasco.

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa says the number of administration witnesses who have conveniently lost or destroyed emails now totals 20.

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Friday, May 23, 2014

Kerry: Obama 'Will Go Down In History' For 'Highest Standards Of Transparency' --Laugh track?

May 23, 2014 Jeryl Bier , Obama Administration 0 Comments
By Jeryl Bier, May 23, 2014, Weeklystandard.com

The same day President Obama held a press conference about the growing scandal at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Secretary of State John Kerry faced the press in Mexico at a joint appearance with Mexican foreign secretary Jose Antonio Meade. Kerry was in the country to discuss trade, economic growth, higher education, and security cooperation, but a reporter asked Kerry some pointed questions about President Obama and his policies and actions regarding surveillance and deportation. Kerry responded with unequivocal support for the president, beginning, "Well, I believe President Obama will go down in history as the president who has held himself and his administration accountable to the highest standards of transparency and accountability."

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In answering the reporter's assertion that President Obama would be "going into history as the president that has deported the most migrants," Kerry said the Obama administration's relationship with the Mexican government has been "productive on cross-border issues, on immigration issues, extradition issues, deportation issues," but that things wouldn't "change overnight." (Secretary Meade added later that the two countries need a "more structured dialogue so we can talk about migration, security in a framework of the right of migrants.")

Apparently in response to the reporter's statements about "spying" and "wired" phone calls, Kerry suggested, "everybody here knows President Obama didn’t order [what was happening] because he was in the Senate – and not even in the Senate – when much of this was put in place." Kerry invoked privacy standards that he had authored with Senator McCain that he said influenced new rules that President Obama had recently established, and said that the president would be "measured as having taken the most extraordinary steps of any president in our history in order to try to put that [security and protection and prevention versus privacy] relationship back in balance." Kerry placed President Obama at the top of the list of all presidents for transparency in this regard, saying, "No President, I think, in our history has laid open as willingly for everybody to judge what we are doing as a guideline or as a standard by which we are going to try to balance this equity between security and protection and prevention versus privacy and respect for the rights of all of our citizens."

Kerry closed his remarks with the assurance that "the people of the United States and the people of Mexico should be pleased with the direction that we’re moving in. It’s open, it’s transparent, it’s accountable, and it’s productive. And I think we’re headed in the right direction."

A complete transcript (via the State Department) of the exchange between Secretary Kerry and the reporter is as follows:
QUESTION: (Via interpreter) This is a question for Secretary Kerry. When President Pena came into office, the level that he would have with the United States was questionable, especially in terms of unity. After one year and a half, what do you think about the relationship of this administration with the United States?

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