OK, whether you’re for ObamaCare or against it, you gotta feel a bit squimish that the bill is being crafted in secret — literally behind locked doors — with rushed votes that preclude reps from reading it.
Now, President Obama is “hands on” in the process — with some of the meetings taking place at the White House — in secret, of course.
C-Span has offered to televise all of the negotiations. A logical offer since candidate Obama pledged to hold all of the negotiations in public and ,explicitly promised — on several occasions — to televise them on C-Span
Here are 2 clips that are worth watching …
Candidate Obama mash-up of the repeated, explicit promise to televise the negotiations:
http://www.breitbart.tv/the-c-span-lie-did-obama-really-promise-televised-healthcare-negotiations/
Commentary by left-leaning Jack Cafferty of CNN:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/01/07/cnns_cafferty_rips_obama_openness_pledge_as_a_lie.html
January 8, 2010 at 2:07 pm |
Peggy Noonan had a good opinion piece today in the Wall Street Journal about this and the administration’s disregard for the people.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704130904574644701673362182.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read