You see, he is just like Bush
The day after O took office he pledged to “create an unprecedented level of openness in government.” In others words – different from the likes of Bush.
Holy cow, what a difference that would be. Finally, obscurity will be blown away and we’ll know who did what and when and where. You know, the basis of real news stories that are the foundation of informed voting and directing support where it’s deserved.
But with the party-crashing scandal involving the Salahi pair, the pledge has vanished. Now we plainly see that O is just like Bush. He, just like Bush, is against openness. Indeed, every time you turn around – O is turning around from a pledge – to be just like Bush.
This time the administration says openness “doesn’t apply to calls for his social secretary to testify on Capitol Hill,” says Michael Shear in the Washington Post. It hardly evokes the weight of Watergate or 9/11, he says, but Congress is still demanding an “in-person explanation from social secretary Desiree Rogers, who was in charge of the dinner.”
O’s aides say sending a woman in charge of parties to a government committee “runs counter to years of history and to the separation of powers built into the Constitution.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha – just like Bush. And a lame excuse to boot. White House staffers did testify during Whitewater.
During his campaign O said, “But I think this notion, this blanket notion that you can’t subpoena White House aides, where there’s evidence of genuine wrongdoing, I think is completely misguided. We’re a nation of laws, and not men or women. So, you know – and my – that’s a precedent I don’t mind living with as president of the United States.”
There you go, man. That would have been different form Bush.
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