Eleanor Holmes Norton says 'you don't have a right to know' what's going on in government

Washington Examiner ^ | July 25, 2014 | Sean Higgins

[BAW]

Eleanor Holmes Norton, the non-voting congressional delegate for the District of Columbia, angrily sputtered during a congressional hearing Friday that the White House should not be held up to scrutiny, saying that there was no right to know what it was doing behind closed doors.

"You don't have a right to know everything in a separation-of-powers government, my friend. That is the difference between a parliamentary government and a separation-of-powers government," Norton said during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing.

It was, to put mildly, a significant departure from the more traditional liberal stance that openness and transparency are must to prevent abuses of power by government officials. Instead the leading advocate for statehood for the District of Columbia literally argued that even the congressional committee charged with oversight shouldn't be asking questions in the first place.

[DJ MacWoW]

"An elective despotism was not the government we fought for;
but one in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced
among the several bodies of magistracy as that no one could transcend their legal limits
without being effectually checked and restrained by the others."
James Madison Federalist No. 58, 1788

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[Rome2000]

The Same Reasoning, which will induce you to admit all Men, who have no Property, to vote, with those who have, for those Laws, which affect the Person will prove that you ought to admit Women and Children: for generally Speaking, Women and Children, have as good Judgment, and as independent Minds as those Men who are wholly destitute of Property: these last being to all Intents and Purposes as much dependent upon others, who will please to feed, cloath, and employ them, as Women are upon their Husbands, or Children on their Parents.

Depend upon it, sir, it is dangerous to open So fruitfull a Source of Controversy and Altercation, as would be opened by attempting to alter the Qualifications of Voters. There will be no End of it. New Claims will arise. Women will demand a Vote. Lads from 12 to 21 will think their Rights not enough attended to, and every Man, who has not a Farthing, will demand an equal Voice with any other in all Acts of State. It tends to confound and destroy all Distinctions, and prostrate all Ranks, to one common Level.

-John Adams

[Iron Munro]

Liberals have become emboldened by Barack Obama’s lawlessness.

Increasingly, they feel safe coming out of the closet and displaying what true tyrants, racists and haters of freedom they really are.

[IMR 4350]

Forgot my butt, she never knew it.

[elcid1970]

EHN always has a pinched sour look. Scolding someone with the expression “my friend” conveys the deepest contempt for whoever disagrees with her.

So glad she can’t vote. BTW, anyone remember Jesse Jackson when he named himself the D.C. “shadow senator” & tried to enter the Congressional parking lot?

[hosepipe]

Eleanor “Sherlock” Holmes Norton <<-— Ah! there is evil afoote’

the Bizarro world detective..

[hal ogen]

eleanor is such a demented affirmative-action, equal-opportunity LIB loser. She years ago didn’t pay her federal taxes (”...because my husband takes care of that”) even though her signature was on the forms. She is a buffoon of the highest order. The local LIB buffoons continue to reelect her.

[Rome2000]

The Same Reasoning, which will induce you to admit all Men, who have no Property, to vote, with those who have, for those Laws, which affect the Person will prove that you ought to admit Women and Children: for generally Speaking, Women and Children, have as good Judgment, and as independent Minds as those Men who are wholly destitute of Property: these last being to all Intents and Purposes as much dependent upon others, who will please to feed, cloath, and employ them, as Women are upon their Husbands, or Children on their Parents.

Depend upon it, sir, it is dangerous to open So fruitfull a Source of Controversy and Altercation, as would be opened by attempting to alter the Qualifications of Voters. There will be no End of it. New Claims will arise. Women will demand a Vote. Lads from 12 to 21 will think their Rights not enough attended to, and every Man, who has not a Farthing, will demand an equal Voice with any other in all Acts of State. It tends to confound and destroy all Distinctions, and prostrate all Ranks, to one common Level.

-John Adams

The right has a duty to find ways to disenfranchise the parasite class!!!!!!!!!!!!.

Universal Suffrage was not supported by the Founders, and is not American!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

“While all other Sciences have advanced, that of Government is at a stand; little better understood; little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.”

- John Adams, letter to Thomas Jefferson, Jul. 9, 1813.

COMMUNISTS OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[IMR 4350]

She and Sheila Jackson Lee from here in Texas are of the same caliber, BB brains.

Even by CBC standards they are considered idiots.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Worse, we are lead by idiots.

[Vendome]

ReAlly?

I don’t have the right to know what my hard earned money buys?

Seems like UPS could just start delivering packages anywhere they feel like.

[reefdiver]

No, let her keep rambling, Americans need to hear what the left says and thinks, we can use this stuff against all of them.

[goodnesswins]

Eleanor...the beotch who came to our company for an Affirmative Action review In the 1970s is a racist idiot and can shut her piehole

[NorthMountain]

She was ‘elected’ by a population of unrepentant gibsmedats. They’re incapable of shame.

[puppypusher]

Its a good thing to know that this Communist wana-be is a non-voting representative in D.C.

I just wonder how many more Communist are hiding in the demrat party.

[Fester Chugabrew]

She is correct. It is not a “right.” It is a duty.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

What she meant was, you have no right to know what THIS president is up to. Wasn’t true for Chimpy McHitler.

[gaijin]

You all, uh..UPPITY wid yo' transparency yimmah-yammah, PUTTIN' ON AIRS…!

[Busko]

From th emouth of an goose stepping ass clown.

[TigersEye]

Here's a right, Eleanor.

--That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

And we have the right to decorate a lamp post with anyone who tries to prevent us.