We’ve heard the line, it would be on CSPAN. When Scott Brown was driving his truck around Massachusetts, the Democrats were behind locked doors combining the House and Senate Health Care Bills. When talk show hosts rolled out the audio of this video from breitbart.tv (see above), all it showed was Obama breaking another campaign promise. No big deal right?
They say hell knows no fury like a woman scorned, but hell hadn’t heard about public relations at that stage. In the post-Scott Brown/State of The Union world of politics, the Obama Administration has taken on a new form of Transparency.
The first tactic of the Administration’s ’New Found Transparency’ took place the day after the State of the Union Address. According to Politico : “Less than 24 hours before President Barack Obama was to participate in a question-and-answer session with House Republicans at their annual retreat — the White House called Mike Pence’s office with an unexpected request. Could the event be televised?..” (see Politico).
For anyone interested in watching one of the biggest game changers in 2010, take a view at this.
The self-inviting Obama turned into the Republican Party crasher, far beyond the likes of Tareq and Michaele Salahi. Obama brought in the cameras, changed the focus, and forced his critics to accept his terms, and had it televised!
When Obama sat down with Katie Couric on the Superbowl pre-game show on CBS, Obama claimed he would host a televised meeting with Republican and Democratic congressional leaders on health care reform (see Politico). Let me be the first to speculate, I don’t think he told any of the Republican congressional leaders about this plan. If am I right, then this tactic is not transparency, this is ‘Malicious Transparency’.
How does forcing the agenda upon the Republican Party, picking the setting, and televising it ever got to be considered transparency? It is far closer to a show trial or a court involving a hopping marsupial from Australia.
Craig Edwards
Tags: CSPAN, Democratic, House Republicans, Katie Couric, Malicious Transparency, Massachusetts, Mike Pence, Obamacare, Politico, President Barack Obama, Salahi, Scott Brown, Transparency, White House
UPDATE: It seems Republicans are welcoming this health care reform invite from Obama. If they were caught unaware of this invite, they are not showing it.