Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Change to a more Transparent White House

So going back to the campaign days President Obama has been talking about hope and change repeatedly. One of the changes was to make government more transparent for the American citizens. So lets see how that change has worked out so far. Obama promised to put all non-emergency bills on the white house website for citizens to view before he signed them. Well so far he has expanded SCHIP, passed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, and the Credit Card Bill of Rights bill among others all without meeting the 5 day promise. And now he is blocking access to White House visitor logs. This is a policy stance taken from the Bush administration who said it was no one else's business who was coming to visit him at the White House. The only problem is that a Federal Judge has ruled twice that this information is not private. So much for transparency.

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