Please start by explaining your Indonesian citizenship and if you're still Islamic. It seems like we hardly know you, Barry.
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.
What a joke. The logs of the WH visitors only came after months of protest and law suits.
What we’re asking for is to stop the closed door meetings and for the committees to turn over the bills early enough for everyone to read them, instead of “substitutes” that show up at 5:30 AM for same day votes. Remember the cap and trade that no one had a copy of??
Don’t do it...it’s some sort of trap.
How obviously transparent this move by Obama to trick the Tea Partiers.
I can tell you that if any TParty organizers go to this, they are not to be trusted.
Obama is destroying our nation and real Tea Partiers know this...they also know “transparency” is BS to Obama after what he did on ObamaCare.
Transparancy? Okay, let me have total and unfettered access to BATFE’s chief counsels office files. ALL OF THEM. Following that, I want to see ALL correspondance between employees of the BATFE and all correspondance to the outside of the agency. Then we’ll move on to the NFRTR and just how corrupted the database is and how it’s being used. If I find anything illegal, I want the power to arrest and the right to bring all data to the view of the public.
Mr. President? Do you REALLY want to go down this road? I accept that challange.
It’s just a smoke screen to claim they asked, they’re engaged.
Perfect.
I’d seen that before, but didn’t grab the URL.
Great post.
clink...clink...clink...Warriors come out and play...clink...clink...clink...Warriors.
The master does not collaborate with the servant. The GOV is the peoples servant -it will shut up and do as it is told or get shown the door...
LLS
Maybe from the movie scene in "Blazing Saddles" where Bart, the black sheriff, threatens to shoot himself:
Bart: [low voice] Hold it! Next man makes a move, the n***** gets it!Olson Johnson: Hold it, men. He's not bluffing.
Dr. Sam Johnson: Listen to him, men. He's just crazy enough to do it!
Bart: [low voice] Drop it! Or I swear I'll blow this n*****'s head all over this town!
Bart: [high-pitched voice] Oh, lo'dy, lo'd, he's desp'it! Do what he sayyyy, do what he sayyyy!
[Townspeople drop their guns. Bart jams the gun into his neck and drags himself through the crowd towards the station]
Harriet Johnson: Isn't anybody going to help that poor man?
Dr. Sam Johnson: Hush, Harriet! That's a sure way to get him killed!
Bart: [high-pitched voice] Oooh! He'p me, he'p me! Somebody he'p me! He'p me! He'p me! He'p me!
Bart: [low voice] Shut up!
[Bart places his hand over his own mouth, then drags himself through the door into his office]
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Transparency? Let's start by you submitting:
And not just the Times.
How about every major paper on the same day across the USA, no two ads alike, all with varied challenges to the transparency.
Thanks.
No problem. The logic and accuracy of your comments stood out.
But first, Mr. McLaughlin, you must start with a transparency into your thinking.
As a liberal, your thinking is based on a rejection of absolute truth. As such, it denies you access to the rational method.
Chaos is not your friend. You should know that.
Is this the same Progressive/Marxist President who flew over the tea party crowd in a copter during the 9/12 march on DC and later claimed he did not notice them? Now he wants their input on transparency? He cannot be taken seriously!
Oh you have to approve the questions we ask ahead of time , THATS TRANSPARANCY????????
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