Knock, knock. Who’s there? Obama’s not telling
Shouldn’t the public know which health care CEOs the White House is courting in its desperate attempt to save Obamacare?
Didn’t the president promise the dawn of the greatest era of sunlight and open records and transparency — and an end to the dark days of George Bush?
Uhhhhh, never mind:
Invoking an argument used by President George W. Bush, the Obama administration has turned down a request from a watchdog group for a list of health industry executives who have visited the White House to discuss the massive healthcare overhaul.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington sent a letter to the Secret Service asking about visits from 18 executives representing health insurers, drug makers, doctors and other players in the debate. The group wants the material in order to gauge the influence of those executives in crafting a new healthcare policy.
The Secret Service sent a reply stating that documents revealing the frequency of such visits were considered presidential records exempt from public disclosure laws. The agency also said it was advised by the Justice Department that the Secret Service was within its rights to withhold the information because of the “presidential communications privilege.”
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics said it would file suit against the Obama administration as early as today.
Obama lied, transparency died!
See what others have said
Note from Michelle: This section is for comments from michellemalkin.com's community of registered readers. Please don't assume that I agree with or endorse any particular comment just because I let it stand. A reminder: Anyone who fails to comply with my terms of use may lose his or her posting privilege.
Trackbacks
- The Quest For Quality Health Care « NEOAVATARA
- Transparency? Hardly « Vets On The Watch
- Remember the Cheney secret meetings with energy executives? | Radio Vice Online
- PunditKix
- Transparency? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Transparency… White House Won’t Disclose Health Industry Executives’ Visits for ObamaCare Overhaul « Frugal Café Blog Zone
- Barack OBush – most transparent adminstration ever | Fire Andrea Mitchell!
- COACHEP » Blog Archive » Posts about Obama Health Care Failure as of July 22, 2009
- Liberal Values » Blog Archive » White House Secrecy In Dealings With Health Industry Executives
- Another DaleyGator diagnosis! Obama suffering from Transparency Dysfunction! « The Daley Gator
- Another “ObamaCare” -Slash- “Transparent Government” Takes One Step Forward, Two Steps Back Into “BushCo” Territory | THE GUN TOTING LIBERAL™
- “Black Sphere” Anti-ObamaCare Site Hacked and Attacked by Statist Thugs « Frugal Café Blog Zone
- Audience Cracks Up When MO Rep. Carnahan Claims ObamaCare Will Save Money: “If It’s So Good, Why Doesn’t Congress Have to Be on It?” (video) « Frugal Café Blog Zone
Comments
You must be logged in to post a comment.
Categories: Health care
Doug Ross @ Journal
» Democrats shocked -- SHOCKED -- that Republicans won't eat the juicy, tender crap sandwich they cooked up all on their own
Green Room
» Miss Me Yet? Bush Billboard Mystery Solved
Mudville Gazette
» New Standards in Journalism
JustOneMinute
» He Played It Left Hand, But Took It Too Far
Ed Driscoll
» The Night Chicago Died

Mudville Gazette
» In this case I'm pro-abortion













They’re going to destroy his presidency!
Good morning mister CEO. Please sign here or we will over-regulate your industry, or declare your business strategic to national interests… we will regulate your salary, tax your stock options, and take control of your firm… Think GM… Chrysler…
Wouldn’t you rather be a czar?
Well, what’s going on is open and transparent to those inside the administration. To those on the outside, not so much. But, since they won, what do we matter?
B-b-b-b-b-but….Sara Palin!!!!!1!!eleventy!
Odopeys Presidency.
Obama lied, transparency died and soon I fear his enemies will too. His model is more Marx than Madison, Stalin more than Washington.
where is lgm (or one of his familiars) now?
I’m sure he can find a silver lining of hate in that statement somewhere!
It’s getting harder and harder to distinguish Hope-a-Dope’s first term from Jimmy Carter’s second or George Bush’s third.
It ain’t easy being sleezy.
- Moe & Shemp (BABY SITTERS JITTERS, 1951)
- American voters & the Administration (HEALTHCARE, CAP & TRADE, BAILOUT, 2009).
Great, now there are two of them.
Oh please, move on. Transparency is for the little people.
Are we suprised by BHO’s arrogance? How much arrogance is needed for a first term Senator with a blank resume to think he could perform as the leader of the free world?
Oh those pesky voters! Always carrying on about rights!
The best private government money can buy.
If you watch the press conference tonight, think of this clip playing after every answer.
The people that believed in the Obama transparency must have been smoking the same thing Obama smokes. Transparency is a joke government likes to play on the subjects of this realm.OBAMALAND!
and idiots believed what he said about transparency? lol, present 140 something times and they BELIEVED HIM??? FOOLS!
never showed his hand in the Senate, never.
Dumbass Voters 08′
thank you so much.
These are now daily occurences. Someone needs to track them and summarize them.
Flyover- Someone is !
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/04/02/obamateurism-of-the-day-11/
“I can’t see, I can’t see!” “What’s’a'matter!?” “I got my eyes closed.” [ploink!]
- Larry, Moe & Curly (ANTS IN THE PANTRY, 1936)
“No, no. Too too morbid” “The morbid, the merrier!”
- Moe and Curly (IF A BODY MEETS A BODY, 1945)
Follow the notion of transparency. There is more there than meets the eye.
For example;
If Obama actually believed in transparency (which by now we know he doesn’t), and practiced that belief, it may be discovered that he is not qualified to be POTUS. Not only that, he may not even be a citizen of the United States.
So…
The Democrat Party is fighting tooth and nail that would require documentation to qualify for federally funded “anything.” The suggested documentation requirements would ultimately finger illegal aliens, and those who have been ordered out of the country. It might even illuminate a few terrorists who have escaped scrutiny so far.
…we just can’t have that now, can we?
Poor Obama. I’m afraid my country won’t be very pleased with you. Does this sound familiar: “You cannot fool all of the Americans, all of the time”. We are coming for you. . .at the tea parties, at the upcoming elections. . .we are coming for you baby.
I agree with the argument. It’s the hypocrisy that I can’t abide.
I think they are watching the new Harry Potter movie with their favorite nambla child of the day.
GSP
“This is Sparta!”
Obama lied, transparency died!
Obama lied, transparency died!
Obama lied, transparency died!
Obama lied, transparency died!
Obama lied, transparency died!
Obama lied, transparency died!
can’t be said loud enough.
can’t be said often enough.
Obama lied, transparency died!
(it is a 30 year+ pattern)
I think cheddar and anyone else that can’t throw out a comment without invoking the ghosts of Stooges should get a room, or their own website.
carter 2 will set back DEMS in politics for another 25 years. after this mess is done, america will not trust either the dems or the msm for decades. this group is proving dems are nothing but tax and spend clowns who care only about themselves, the politburo. bush ran deficits of 450million, obama is running deficits of trillions.
Now now gunslingerpatriot–you do not want our trolls thinking we mock them do you? As far as criticizing nambla –what would Ruth Bad-N-Ugly Ginsberg think? Well she things Eight is Too Late, but besides that?
Barack
Barry
Wright
Ayers
Ghandi
Lincoln
Kinda depends on who obama is addressing and for what purpose, real or imagined, doesn’t it.
AJ
Me thinks you are spot on. Crash and burn. He’s on the downhill slide.
Sweet. Thanks for th tip!
Bloomberg TV just announced that drug industry lobbying spending is up 82% so far this year. Pfizer is the biggest spender of all.
Just a coincidence I’m sure. Synchronicity I believe is the technical explanation.
Graft is the more vulgar term.
Transparency is for the GOP. Dems are above all that. They are the “all knowing what’s best for the country” party; the “we get to shove it all down your throat while you pay for it” party. Integrity doesn’t exist anymore.
Not to mention those who feel compelled to provide multiple links to their blog and repeat their name over and over again every single time they comment.
Some of those “health industry executives” might have come from Theralogix, NSF International, and Trucost Plc.
My doctor recently suggested that I change from my OTC calcium supplement to a product called TheraCal, manufactured by Theralogix. He gave me a brochure and a small information sheet with the web site address for ordering TheraCal. Stamped on the brochure and the info sheet were identical numbers, described as my “Patient Referral Code”.
I checked out Theralogix online. Their deal is: I sign up for a 60 day supply of TheraCal, using a credit or debit card; every 60 days they send my another bottle of TheraCal and charge it automatically; they notify my doctor every time they send me a bottle, and every time I cancel an order!! This is, according to Theralogix, (and I paraphrase here) for my own good!!!
Their products and manufacturing facilities are approved by NSF International. I checked them online.
NSF International is proud of the help they provide to businesses seeking to improve their environmental footprints and to lower their greenhouse gas emissions. In order to help these companies, they bring in Trucost, which apparently has a data base of every possible carbon footprint of every person on the planet!
Well, something like that. I was babbling incoherently to myself by the time I finished checking out all the links on Trucost’s website. There’s a giant spider out there, weaving it’s web around a lot of American and International companies – from the smallest to the largest.
Unplugging for the day. I’m going to take a long nap, and then go to the drugstore to buy a bottle of my OTC calcium supplement.
The drug companies would like nothing better to have us all hooked on something they sell. I have watched countless elderly family members taking more pills than food at each meal, which caused me to vow that I have no intention of being one of them. How many elderly do we kill from the multiple side effects of the meds they take? How many pills are taken to lessen the side effects of other meds? Our lives improved through chemistry!
Az-
Compared to the hopo, and other liberal blogs; the sarcasam that conservatives dish out to our favorite trolls is tame by comparison.
Now if I wish lgm and the other trolls to get pulled over by Shaq O’neil (he’s a reserve cop) that would be cruel and inhumane punishment.
Can you imagine being on the recieving end of Shaq slam dunk or being cuffed by him? I would rather be waterboarded instead.
GSP
OT-I saw Shaq and Nash play the Griz at Fed Ex Forumn last season and I felt like a roast pig at kosher wedding wearing my Suns Jersey.
Don’t forget…
Pelosi also lied… a lot, and transparency was just one of them.
Proving once again…turds on a feather, plop together.
Why you, I oughta….;-)
“Go on, get sexy!”
- Moe to Curly (MATRI-PHONY, 1942)
Barack Obama, WPE
(worst president ever)
Will there be a reporter who have the spine to ask some tough questions tonight, i.e. Mr. President, can you give us the names of the executives that visited you at the WH to discuss your Obama(S)Care? This is a follow-up question Mr. Pres. Did you offer them carrots or threatened them with a stick?
Don’t think so! The MSM will ask softball and leading questions that will make the Messiah look good.
I’m not going to watch him and listen to his false promises and lies. It’s a good thing that I have a DVR and able to watch “24″ again.