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.
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Did Gary Hart issue this challenge?
Wow! If the White House feels the need to respond to a loosely organized party, (who their lackeys describe as “extremists, Nazis and racists”) than there must be something to the charge of “no transparency”. Is Barry so paranoid, he has to respond to each and every allegation from his detractors. If that’s the case, we need to badger the cahooties out of him. Drive him into a frenzy of craziness and illogical behavior. It’s his weakness, he can’t stand not to respond to every Tom, Dick and Harry.
That’s it right there .... uh, we’re looking for the 7 or 8 leaders to attack ... anybody wanna’ come out and play? And you know what folks, if “faux leaders” show up (from this “leaderless populist movement” then they deserve to get picked off ... no loss, they are not “ours.”
Tell me: Have you noticed how Obama always relies on a teleprompter?
Dear Baraq: Tea Partyers aren’t as gullible as GOPers. G.F.Y.
I would settle for his missing school records.
LoL!... I wonder how many posts I will have to read here to find the word Birth Certificate?
HF
Correction: to see who can be more radical in their information-gathering.
I wonder how the DOJ attorneys are faring with their ACORN investigations?
Good point. I would recommend it be as round-robin as possible. That’s how crews on ships petitiioned tyrannical captains.
Just check my tag line. =]
he wants to see who is organising this tea party and then go after them.
He still doesn’t get it
With nonexistent zip codes that received the funds.
indeed
the tea party is not something he understands.
When he got folks together and cause trouble , they got leaders and black ministers to head the masses.
the tea party are folks not paid off but just completely pissed off with his policies and he doesn’t get that.
yet again the white house shows how out of touch they are, I mean how could anyone not go with his agenda, how could anyone not like him and trust him?
ARF
Transparency my @$$ !!! 0bama ,,, YOU LIE !!!
great movie
the white house cannot wrap their heads around the masses pissed off with him so they think we are being led like the left does.
the left does it like this
pay off a black minster, tell the churchs in the area how they are being oppressed
the tea party are just folks pissed off and wants to send a message, no one is being paid off like the left does.
so because the tea party is different and they cannot find a leader overall they are asking those to come forward so they can go after them, dig dirt on them, get the IRS after them etc
Millions were in DC and they wouldn’t even acknowledge them - and now ‘they’ want! No Way. We know enough not to trust them. You LIE would be my response.
That’s a good response - right on!
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