Campaign Finance Reformers Launch Progressive Effort To Remove Money From Politics
Thursday, October 27, 2011
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Campaign Finance Reformers Launch Progressive Effort To Remove Money From Politics
Obama, in his own words:
"Meetings where laws are written will be more open to the public, no more secrecy...
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"Clintons did health care the wrong way, behind closed doors":
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"On transparency", "About inviting the people back into their government again", & "Part of the job of the next American president is making Americans believe that our government is working for them, because right now they don't feel like it's working for them. They feel like it's working for special interests & it's working for corporatio
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"We need a president who sees the government not as a tool to enrich well connected friends & high-price
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"The American people are the answer":
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Obama's Transparency Problem:
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Obama's campaign rhetoric was just that -- Rhetoric.
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Obama's Justice Department wants to codify a repulsive existing practice that allows federal agencies to deny Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests by falsely claiming that documents that do exist don't.
Genuine government transparency is fundamenta l to all Americans, which is why this twisted take on transparen cy has struck nerves across the political spectrum. Both the liberal ACLU and the conservati ve Judicial Watch oppose the warped proposal.
Justice already can legitimately deny FOIA requests to protect informatio n about ongoing investigat ions. But falsely claiming documents don't exist would discourage FOIA filers -- who'd have no way to know such claims were false -- from suing over rejected requests.
Yet court challenges will be Americans' best hope for ultimately derailing this attempt at disingenuous deception, should Justice implement it. Bolstering that hope, The Daily Caller reports, is a federal judge's ruling in a case involving FBI records: "Governmen t cannot, under any circumstan ce, affirmativ ely mislead the court."
Government must not "affirmatively mislead" the American people, either. Justice's bid to do so reveals Obama administra tion "transpare ncy" as the travesty it is. If not much more.
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The Obama administration wants a new rule to the Freedom of Informatio n Act which would allow federal agencies to tell people requesting certain law-enforc ement or national security documents that records don’t exist – even when they do.
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And the proof of what I'm saying was evident for all to see in the 2010 midterm elections, when Obama and the DLC worked their butts off preventing progressiv
To add insult to the injury, before the 2010 midterms, Obama broadcast that he would be doing more of the same, more caving by Obama & Democrats, to Republican
Aides say that the president's been spending "a lot of time talking about Obama 2.0," brainstorm ing with administra tion officials about the best way to revamp the strategies & goals of the White House.
And despite the predictions that Democrats may relinquish a large degree of legislatin g power, including perhaps control of the House & even Senate, Obama isn't thinking of the next two years as a period that'll be marked with the same obstructiv e nature from the GOP.
"It may be that regardless of what happens after this election, [Republicans] feel more responsibl e, either because they didn't do as well as they anticipate d, & so the strategy of just saying no to everything & sitting on the sidelines & throwing bombs didn't work for them," Obama says. "Or they did reasonably well, in which case the American people are going to be looking to them to offer serious proposals & work with me in a serious way."
Dick Durbin says Obama's post-election agenda "will have to be limited & focused on the things that are achievable and high priorities for the American people." Tom Daschle says Obama has to reach out more: "The keyword is inclusion. He's got to find ways to be inclusive. "
Why would Obama do that if not to discourage already angry and discourage
Democrats lost seats in the 2010 midterms because of Obama's and Democrats failure to do what Democratic voters put them in office for in 2008. It was Blue Dogs who lost their seats in huge numbers, and lost Democrats control over the House and lowered the total in the Senate -- Progressiv
Since the midterm elections, Obama has tried to spin this as some mandate for more Republican
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