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.
I’d rather see the Tea Party movement challenge the Obamunist on Maxist sympathies within this administration.
Why let Obama One set the agenda of the debate and “controversies”?
There are a few hundred FReepers I know here and a select two dozen conservative talk radio hosts or opinion columnists who would win a debate vs the Bolshevik Blatherer Barack "Fitzgerald" Obama under any terms he chooses.
Today is the 30th Anniversary of the Miracle on Ice. If a bunch of American college kids can win vs a Soviet hockey team that beat the NHL's best, we can find people who can kick Barack "Fitzgerald" Obama's butt up and down the rink for public amusement.
Some of you are even here. Where is the American Spirit?
Bring it on. Wherever, whenever they want. Choose your weapons. We choose the truth.
This is thuggary to split the party...boy are they cunning and crafty like witches!
No..it’s recognition of a seperate party...so important we not take the bait....no third parties which is what the rats want...don’t acknowlege the invitation. It’s a set up.
“Hehhe just wants to ID some leaders to Alinsky-ize them, a la Carville.”.....
You are SO right.
I hope they don’t take the bait...
“Hehhe just wants to ID some leaders to Alinsky-ize them, a la Carville....”
BINGO!!!
The TP organization should send a panel....with questions signed by thousands..for them to attempt to publically answer.
What a childish maneuver by this administration, but then again, I expected nothing less.
This should end badly for the WH and I hope it does, but to those who accept the challenge, beware.
Yep!
trap. ignore trap. provide with further rope.
I think someone could make a lot of money selling those t-shirts and bumper stickers/car magnets!
Hey, Carville, I got your “Tea Party Leader”!
Oh yes.
Yeah, good point.
I’d say the Tea Party protesters already have challenged Obama on transparency. Someone just isn’t listening.
I BEG all of the tea party leaders to tell him to stick it in his ear. I thought he didn’t even notice all of us in Washington, DC on 912? We’ll talk to you, Mr. Prez, after November when you have noone left to push your Marxist agenda.
By the way...CAN YOU HEAR US NOW???!!! What a dirtbag.
Ya know, that’s one of my pet peeves concerning the way Tea Party/Town Hall people are treated by this administration and their flunkies. NO, I’m NOT ‘anti-government’, I’m anti-BIG-government. NO, I’m NOT ‘anti-tax’, I’m anti-EXCESSIVE TAXATION AND GENERATION THEFT-tax! And so on. Yet the MSM continues to try to represent us as some kind of anarchists/terrorists. I CAN’T WAIT FOR NOVEMBER.
Obama lacks “standing”.
Pass..
I don’t recognize him as the legitimate president so why should we bother having a meeting with him?
No sense in having a discussion with an usurper, unless we are surrendering.
Please provide unredacted copies of all reports, memos, emails and any other communication regarding your decision to appoint Van Jones as “Green Jobs Czar”.
"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.Thanks Nachum.
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