Showing posts with label government openness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label government openness. Show all posts
April 08, 2009
Obamiacs opening eyes on Obama civil liberties issues
Glenn Greenwald has the details on how Keith Olbermann, and even a lot of Kossacks (albeit 9 months too late) are finally getting a clue.
February 23, 2009
So much for Obama press openness
Glenn Greenwald, near the bottom of this column, shows Team Obama already lining up sycophants in the media on Gitmo and civil-liberties related issues, among other things.
And, on one of those other things, Just.Another.Politician.™ may even been looking at cutting Sociable Security bennies, and even has Ezra Klein bamboozled. Or maybe Ezra did it to himself.
Add to that either a clusterfucked level of disarray, a Gen-X sense of noblesse noblessitude amongst press office staff, or a combo of the two, and you really have fun.
MUCH more on that from David Johnston. A WH press office staffer saying – not asking – he’s going off the record? And, on the first phone call? And, over just being asked to spell his name and give his job title?
And, Jack Shafer details how Team Obama is already pulling another page from the Bush playbook – using anonymous folks for backgrounders at pressers.
I already am getting more and more confirmation for another Green presidential vote in 2012, or Socialist, if I have that option.
And, on one of those other things, Just.Another.Politician.™ may even been looking at cutting Sociable Security bennies, and even has Ezra Klein bamboozled. Or maybe Ezra did it to himself.
Add to that either a clusterfucked level of disarray, a Gen-X sense of noblesse noblessitude amongst press office staff, or a combo of the two, and you really have fun.
MUCH more on that from David Johnston. A WH press office staffer saying – not asking – he’s going off the record? And, on the first phone call? And, over just being asked to spell his name and give his job title?
And, Jack Shafer details how Team Obama is already pulling another page from the Bush playbook – using anonymous folks for backgrounders at pressers.
I already am getting more and more confirmation for another Green presidential vote in 2012, or Socialist, if I have that option.
February 21, 2009
Obama tanks for Bush again
And, once again, it’s on an issue of government openness.
Just.Another.Politician.™ is reportedly trying to kill the lawsuit seeking millions of “missing” Bush White House e-mails.
The Obama Department of Justice is continuing Bush DOJ efforts to kill the lawsuit.
Kool-Aid drinkers, still ready to tout the “change”? (Other than the loose change in the WH sofas.)
So far, from a stimulus bill on down, Obama’s not doing anything more than Hillary Clinton would have done by this point. Whether she could have done a better, or a worse job, on herding Democratic cats in Congress on the stimulus bill is an open question, of course.
Just.Another.Politician.™ is reportedly trying to kill the lawsuit seeking millions of “missing” Bush White House e-mails.
The Obama Department of Justice is continuing Bush DOJ efforts to kill the lawsuit.
“The new administration seems no more eager than the last” to deal with the issue, said Anne Weismann, chief counsel for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
Kool-Aid drinkers, still ready to tout the “change”? (Other than the loose change in the WH sofas.)
So far, from a stimulus bill on down, Obama’s not doing anything more than Hillary Clinton would have done by this point. Whether she could have done a better, or a worse job, on herding Democratic cats in Congress on the stimulus bill is an open question, of course.
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