TRANSPARENCY?? Congress Ignores C-SPAN Request To Televise Healthcare Negotiations

The Lid/Various ^ | 1/5/10 | The Lid

[Shellybenoit]

In November 2007, President Obama promised that the reform of health care including the negotiations will be open in a public setting, and not behind closed doors. He even suggested that they would be broadcast live on CSPAN and streamed live over the net. In fact he said they needed to be open because that's why Hillarycare was defeated.

Both the president and the congress have been Ignoring that promise, because transparency is the last thing they want. Throughout the Health Care debate, preferring instead to Ram a bill down out throats, with provisions that would make the American People's heads explode if they knew what was in it. Those earmarks and bribes, or the provision that the bill cannot be changed are just a few examples of what was put into the senate bill at the last minute.

[combat_boots]

Frenchie said in ‘04 something to the effect of, “Members of the 4th Estate, I call you here to inform you that your reign is over.” The reporters gathered there laughed. I wondered why he said that...except that he was off camera when he said it.