Posted on 02/22/2010 3:20:26 PM PST by Nachum
Edited on 02/22/2010 3:31:22 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
In an ironic twist, the White House is inviting the Tea Party movement to challenge it on government transparency.
White House Chief Technology Officer Andrew McLaughlin said Republicans and conservative Tea Party activists should strive to push the administration to make its policies more open.
He also suggested Tea Party activists, who have called for broad changes to the government, could push the GOP to be more aggressive on the issue.
“I would be thrilled to make this a type of political competition ... to see who can be more radical in their openness, in their data distribution models ... trying to prove to the citizens they can run a better government,” said McLaughlin, a former executive at Google.
He also said he would be “delighted if Republicans started pushing out great open-data models like the Conservatives have in the U.K.”
U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown is leading a major push for the release of public data, while the Conservative Party's David Cameron is running on a platform of transparency and has vowed to publish details of every government contract online.
Republicans have been less emphatic about the need for collaboration between government and citizens through digital tools and online releases of data, McLaughlin said.
The Obama administration has made sharing government data with the public a priority through the launch of Data.gov, which publishes data sets online, and an open-government directive aimed at agencies.
President Barack Obama has directed his administration to make its spending of the $787 billion stimulus bill transparent, and has also made the list of the White House visitors’ log public.
But the Tea Party's momentum could push Democrats to do even more to increase government transparency and accountability.
“In this country, any protest is part of the game,” McLaughlin said. “The skepticism of government is part of the American character. I'd like to see us put that dynamic to work to be open and participatory.”
McLaughlin made the remarks Friday said at an event held by the think tank NDN and the New Policy Institute.
Huh. That sounds interesting.
[For tonight, FRegards ....]
See Post #25!
This guy is a joke.
He’s trying to connect the Tea Party with the Republicans. That’s like trying to connect my truck to the moon.
I’m a Tea Party Patriot and don’t feel connected to the Republican party at all.
I feel connected to other conservatives, people I know and politicians I respect. Like Jim DeMint.
ping...
WH invites transparency...
Sign it “I’m the Tea Party Leader” (—>I’m Spartacus) LOL.
Howzabout tellin us what you did with those fishy emails?
You are so right.
Grow up panty-waist-punk-president.
Now, wounded in the pride, and desperate for some sort of legacy other that Jimmy Carter II, he declares openness at Blare House. Bring the pubes in and get a photo, like those military men he declared would make a good photo for him, declare he was open for discussions with the pubes, maybe even throw them a bone, then hike his leg and piss in their face.
Nver forget these are his first instincts. This is the kind of man he is. Do not be deceived.
He needs to grow up. Enough grandstanding.
I wouldn’t do it...
not unless he wanted to meet so I could explain the Constitution to him...
don’t let them set the agenda.....who cares how transparent they are about tearing up our Inheritance, known as out Constitution and the law of the land...
It's because they only hang out in rooms with each other.
Conservative Tea Party members: “who have called for broad changes to the government.”
Yo puppet, we’re not calling for broad changes to the fed.gov, we are calling for the restoration of our rule of law. The one which bulit the greatest nation on the face of the earth. Our Constitution is not just a G-D piece of paper scumbag, it’s what protects us from turd world dictates. Sorta like the puppet master you now serve.
And so you know, we citizens, don’t have to prove shiite.
"Clinton Plotting Tea Party Counterattack"
An FR thread in reference to that - http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2453401/posts
One gets the feeling that everyone in the White House is a mouthy 20-year old brat from an Ivy (IV) league school who thinks that governance is some kind of academnic interfraternity sport.
“Once again, the White House decides to get into a fight on the opponent’s turf.”
I think they want to see who pokes their heads up and what issues they have, and what facts. Any real transparency issues then will be broomed.
See, everybody thought he (obummer) meant b, but when nobody was looking he really meant a (see below):
Or maybe he really meant “b” all along and assumed the public was just too stupid to realize that he was selling them down the river and telling them exactly how he was going to do so.
trans·par·ent (trns-pârnt, -pr-)
adj.
1. Capable of transmitting light so that objects or images can be seen as if there were no intervening material. See Synonyms at clear.
2. Permeable to electromagnetic radiation of specified frequencies, as to visible light or radio waves.
3. So fine in texture that it can be seen through; sheer. See Synonyms at airy.
4.
a. Easily seen through or detected; obvious: transparent lies.
b. Free from guile; candid or open: transparent sincerity.
obummer said that he would have the most transparent administration ever, he figured that everyone would buy the hope and change NLP claptrap and buy into the well intentioned meaning of the term. Too bad for him that he is being transparent in all of his lies because any intelligent person realizes that he is stating or has stated exactly what he wants to do to the country and is attempting to follow through on all of those promises.
Yes, this administration is transparent in the fact that they want to remake America into a socialist utopian global village where everyone is equally miserable except the elite.
Show us your manuscript notes for “your” grammy winning autobiographies...
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