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.

[DocJhn]

You can KMA EHN you have that right!

[apocalypto]

What a nut case.

[GBA]

Sure, yeah, that’s consistent. That’s exactly what they said about the Bush White Houses and about Reagan, too.

[Doomonyou]

the non-voting congressional delegate for the District of Columbia

At least one piece of good news.

[usconservative]

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.

In the very first sentence, the Washington Examiner proved why Eleanor Holmes Norton is a NON-VOTING Congressional Delegate.

Thank the Lord!

[morphing libertarian]

Corollary to

We have to pass the bill to know what’s in it

[dennisw]

This lesbionic creature gets fuglier every year. Google a photo of her

[TigersEye]

I might have to deny her that right. I don’t want anything that fugly near my arse.

[cynwoody]

In the very first sentence, the Washington Examiner proved why Eleanor Holmes Norton is a NON-VOTING Congressional Delegate.

She's non-voting because she doesn't represent a state. She shouldn't even be there.

Of course, the 'Rats would like to change that, but there's that inconvenient Constitution in the way.

[Jack Hammer]

Yet another of Obama’s ignorant *ssholes.

[CodeToad]

No wonder is was so easy to have enslaved these people: They are idiots.

[usconservative]

She's non-voting because she doesn't represent a state. She shouldn't even be there.

I knew that, and you're right: the dipstick shouldn't even be there in the first place.

[bjorn14]

Not exactly true...she can vote in Committees but not on the final vote.

[Olog-hai]

They are evil rather than merely idiotic.

[headstamp 2]

Her boyfriend is in the White House. You can bet she would be the first big mouth flapping for “transparency” if Bush or anybody else was there on the Republican side.

These are the morons destroying our lives on a daily basis.

[OneWingedShark]

Nicely done.

[VerySadAmerican]

Woodward and Bernstein, along with Hillary, would disagree on that. They sure wanted to know what Nixon was up to.

[VerySadAmerican]

IT’s ridiculous that this idiot gets paid to be totally useless.

[kiryandil]

skeeter FTTW:

inside each and every “liberal” is a concentration camp guard just itching to turn their newfound police state powers loose on you

[kiryandil]

The "right to vote" is not a Natural Right.

Somebody should have slapped Eric "Lamp" Holder's dentures out of his lying face when he vomited out the contention that "Voting is the most basic right and responsibility afforded American citizens".

What an ignorant felonious scumbag.