White House to Announce New Policy Disclosing Visitors to White House*

This is where the White House is going to be transparent? Just ask CSPAN if the White House has done what they said they would do concerning exposure…We know who is at the White House (every reporter worth their salt), be transparent every where else goofball administration. WOW

C’mon ABC. Report on something of substance like Van Jones, the green energy czar’s', comments and beliefs. Help make things really transparent since the administration is as concealed as a prior administration.

My God, how stupid do we look??????

How crazy, do we look???? not as crazy as pulling your children out of school because the President in coming to visit!!!

Mr Private citizen do you not realize Your name and your family names are already on the web???? Where have you been living for the past century.My goodness we can even see your every move by satellite.You should only be worried if you have something to hide.

What a joke. This list is maintained by WH staff and they make the decisions as to whether or not they can fit a visit embarassing to them under one of these exemptions. Yet, they will release the names of those who take tours of the WH? What purpose does that serve, but to make the list large and appear to include all visits?

concerned in OH says: “doesn’t really deserve the kind of lavishing praise that CREW gave them.”
Well, of course not. They just wanted the Obama admin to release anything to appear to make the Obama admin more transparent than the Bush admin. CREW only really cares about the visitor logs from the Bush days.

Unemployment hits 9.7%. Yay! Maybe now the Administration will put its “Mission Accomplished: The Recession is Over!” banner away.
But, of course we all know, the stimulus is working just fine…we’ll never top 8% if we ram this through Congress..oops, I meant 10%.

Yeah, never happened and the President even went so far as to cut a bunch of deals with Big Pharma behind closed doors.
Posted by: BH |
I think our friend is a Pharmer. He denies that the back room deal with Big Pharma produced a secret deal.

“The most transparent President in history? LOL!”
BH | Sep 4, 2009 9:45:47 AM
Which one was more transparent? There are only 44, surely you can cite an example.
Condemning him for not being perfect on day one is an obvious case of a deliberately impossible standard.

“Yeah, never happened and the President even went so far as to cut a bunch of deals with Big Pharma behind closed doors.”
You can argue that a deal like this is not completely transparent because it wasn’t disclosed before they made it, but it doesn’t prove it wasn’t a good deal for the American people. These guys were big players before they took these government positions and know how to drive a hard bargain.

You can argue that a deal like this is not completely transparent because it wasn’t disclosed before they made it, but it doesn’t prove it wasn’t a good deal for the American people.
Posted by: Skip |
So why won’t either side tell us what they agreed to? If you find out, copy pelosi and waxman. They want to know too.

“Hope and Change. Any day now…”
Most | Sep 4, 2009 9:58:44 AM
You see no change from the Bush administration yet? Really? That’s a bit unbelievable.
I know this is tough, but change is not a yes/no proposition. It can be incremental and still happening, and the majority of people who voted for Obama have seen change occurring. Obama won 53% of the vote, and his current approval ratings (even after the health care and economy beatings) are right around 51% (average of current polls). No mass disillusionment in reality, just in the headlines on slow news days.

“Bill Clinton was more transparent in 8 years than this guy has been in 8 months and THAT’S saying something.”
BH | Sep 4, 2009 10:14:02 AM
If that is your strongest argument, yes, yes it is.

oops…forgot the citation…
“Obama initially offered his stimulus plan as a way to put people back to work, a promise that 3.5 million jobs would be saved or created. The administration’s predictions that unemployment would rise no higher than 8 percent already have been shattered.” – AP, June 8, 2009

AP, June 8, 2009
Posted by: BH | Sep 4, 2009 10:22:01 AM
Do you understand what “primary sources” are? Where is WHAT THE ADMINISTRATION ACTUALLY SAID (I even cited the study for goodness sake – guess you didn’t like what it actually said)? Not a paraphrase from the headline writer of the day.
And for your reading comprehension of the day, do you think even this:
“The administration’s predictions that unemployment would rise no higher than 8 percent ”
is the same thing as:
“we’ll never top 8% if we ram this through Congress”
?

“Yeah, the President NEVER, NEVER touted the CBO projections to sell his plan. ”
BH | Sep 4, 2009 10:18:19 AM
? Now you are accusing the President of using the nonpartisan CBO numbers, based on open methodology and analysis, to inform policy? I thought you loved the CBO – when it was sticking it to the Whitehouse with conservative (high) estimates of health care bill costs.
And the CBO analysis also clearly cites the uncertainty behind their estimates. It’s really your problem if you don’t understand.

Imagine 60 walnut half shells laid out on a table. One green pea is placed under one of the shells. Now move them all about the table and stop.
Find the shell with the green pea that represents Economic Stimulus and jobs for the Americans that are unemployed due to Barrys’ do nothing attitude!!
He’s not what he says he is….is he folks?

“Find the shell with the green pea that represents Economic Stimulus and jobs for the Americans that are unemployed due to Barrys’ do nothing attitude!!
He’s not what he says he is….is he folks?”
Posted by: American Infidel | Sep 4, 2009 10:35:38 AM
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Really? He’s not the President of the United States?

I wonder if Darth Cheney will ever release the names of the industry insiders he invited to his energy policy party where they devised the plan to run up the price of oil for his buddies in the oil industry? Nah….

Foghorn – While I voted for Obama I consider myself just left of center and try to be objective about things. That said,you’re complaining that the Obama administration has not implemented all of his campaign promises in 8 months? Get real. Let’s look at energy policy. The US has not had a cogent energy policy for at least 50 years. You expect this to change in 8 months? At least I hear new ideas for balancing our energy sources and moving away from our suicidal dependence on oil. The last administration had 8 years and all they came up with was “drill baby drill” – hardly a forward-looking energy policy. Turning a ship the size of the US takes a LOT OF TIME. I’ll give Obama the benefit of the doubt for at least the first 2 years of his administration before faulting him on follow through.

No Gus….he is NOT the POTUS.
He sees himself as a “GOD”!
Posted by: American Infidel | Sep 4, 2009 11:10:04 AM
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wow.

Conservative columnist David Brooks
on the essay “How American Health Care Killed My Father,” by David Goldhill in the current issue of The Atlantic.
Goldhill’s main message is that the American health care system is dysfunctional at the core. He vividly describes how the system hides information, muddies choices, encourages more treatment instead of better care, neglects cheap innovation, inflates costs and unintentionally increases suffering.
The essay is about the real problem: the insane incentives. Goldhill is especially good on the way the voracious health care system soaks up money that could go to education, the environment, economic development and a thousand other priorities. Health care, he writes, “simply keeps gobbling up national resources, seemingly without regard to other societal needs.”

“When you throw water on them by listing his accomplishments thus far and everything that’s moving in the direction of promises kept, they start melting and the shrieks are so high-pitched my dogs howl.”
I thought when you throw water on them, a new batch is instantly spawned,and mayhem and destruction ensue.

Why and how is this significant?
Posted by: gus amaral |
The topic was change.

our suicidal dependence on oil. The last administration had 8 years and all they came up with was “drill baby drill” – hardly a forward-looking energy policy. Turning a ship the size of the US takes a LOT OF TIME.
Posted by: Chris in Texas |
Suicidal dependence on oil? All they came up with is “drill baby drill”? And you want ME to get real.
Build a nuclear power plant then. Or do you just want to keep relying on coal for half our power? Or spend trillions subsidizing solar and wind cause we can just print more money?

Every since January 20th I have a reoccuring dream that causes me to wake up in a cold sweat. I see Reverend Wright waking up in the Lincoln bedroom. As he sits up, looks around and takes it all in, he bursts out laughing.
See, the only visitor list I was really interested in is going to be off limits. I suppose Bill Ayers has already been there a few times, including Auntie.
It doesn’t matter how transparent they say they will be…they won’t!! How would we ever know?

Millions are unemployed, thousands of small businesses have failed, homelessness and starvation are real possibilities for everyone.
Civilization itself is unraveling in the United States, where people will be fighting in the streets, killing each other in the chaos.
But from their elected leaders, the people get nothing but indecision. In ever growing numbers they will turn to the decisive man, Ayatollah Obama, and his promises for a better future. “Now I have them in my pocket! They have recognized me as a supreme leader.
The White House press corps is waging a furious propaganda campaign on behalf of Obama the supreme leader, outdoing the previous election effort of 2008. Obama posters are plastered everywhere. There is a whirlwind schedule of speeches for the administration and Obama. The Democratic party will hold thousands of rallies each day all across the United States. They will give out millions of pamphlets and extra copies of bias newspapers. They will also use new technology, flooding the Internet and TV with Obama propaganda.
The Republicans essentially are doing nothing. They are content to ride on their morals and reputation and count on the votes of the American people to keep the radicals out of power. Obama, however, had no doubt. He campaigned knowing he was likely to unseat the old political regime. But the campaign was also an opportunity to win support for himself and his party and to usher in socialism.
For Ayatollah Obama, the goal of a legally established dictatorship was now within reach. Obama and his chosen czars will discuss how to obstruct what was left of the democratic process to get an Enabling Act to amend our Constitution. This law will hand over the constitutional functions of the Congress to Obama including the power to make laws, control the budget and approve treaties with foreign governments.
“Whatever happens, mark what I say. From now on the United States of America is in the hands of a dictator a supreme leader, who is a congenital liar (Obama), admitted communists and terrorists who are appointed as czars and advisers who answer to no one except the supreme leader. And I tell you the last is the worst of them all. This could be Satan in human form.
Wake up America, the supreme leader Ayatollah Obama is now after our children, Adolf Hitler once did the same thing.

Wow such transparency. Now lets see if they can tell us who vetted all obamas Czars and did Obama sign-off knowing that half of them can’t even pass a police check let alone work at the White House.

Gates: AP decision ‘appalling’
Defense Secretary Robert Gates is objecting “in the strongest terms” to an Associated Press decision to transmit a photograph showing a mortally wounded 21-year-old Marine in his final moments of life, calling the decision “appalling” and a breach of “common decency.”
JUST A SIMPLE QUESTION?
Mr. Gate; shouldn’t that story teach you something about the war and ruthless killings of Palestinian mothers while holding their toddlers?

The man is a complete fraud…Impeach him. The man is out to destroy the constitution….Impeach him. He’s a complete crook…Impeach him.

WOW…gotta give creativity to Alyson…Obama’s drop in popularity and poll numbers is simply because he is keeping his campaign promises….LOL LOL…So with that reasoning, are you suggesting that they are only polling right-wing conservatives or those who voted against Obama and not others????
Posted by: Parallex View | Sep 4, 2009 12:39:54 PM
***Thank you for the points (though you didn’t mention the melting and shrieking and I thought that part was fun), and yes, of course. Works for me. His average approval rating is only a couple percentage points down from the percentage of “likely voters” who voted for him. (Though, fairplay, I think some progressives are giving him a hard time on how much they approve– saying only somewhat rather than strongly, and independents are flopping back and forth, waiting to see how it all pans out)

The funniest thing in this article are these two statements:
“We will achieve our goal of making this administration the most open and transparent administration in history not only by opening the doors of the White House to more Americans, but by shining a light on the business conducted inside.”
Then:
The new policy is the result of the Justice Department settling lawsuits brought by the good government group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
They are not doing this to be transparent, they were being sued and people were saying what happened to transparency? Oh and of course they also say that not all of them will be released, the white house gets to determine who on the list they will release! What transparency! lol

“…most of the names” does not equate to transparency. Why not ALL of the names?
Furthermore, America elected a President who is, in my personal opinion, the complete opposite of transparent. Why else would the President have the White House “vet” his Czars and advisors rather than have the FBI do what it is presumably expert at? Why keep the radical views of these Czars and advisors hidden from the get-go? Why didn’t the media investigate this case of the fox watching the henhouse? Didn’t the President himself advise Americans to judge him by looking at the people with whom he surrounded himself? Dear God, what has this nation done?
And while we are on the subject of the President’s utter lack of transparency: where are his complete medical records? Obama’s campaign released only a summary of his medical records — and this is the guy who wants Americans to hand over all of their medical records to the government? Again, where have America’s investigative journalists and reporters gone? Instead, all we get from the media is this juvenile teenage puppy-love-fest. When supposed reporters and news analysts say that they get “tingles” from hearing Obama speak, I get chills up my own spine. There are very few in the media who are asking the questions that need to be answered.

Well it’s not looking good for Obama, Obama doesn’t come out and say a word on Jones and sends it by Email in the middle of the night, Obama stands by Jones and all he stands for, Most american’s see this now ,

Obama has no intentions to stop the downward sprial of this economy. He is doing exactly what his plan dictates and that is to bring the USA to its knees. Then and only then will he stand there and tell the American people “See the Capitalistic Way is broken! We need to institute a new one and this is the one I want! We’re going to become Socialist boys and girls”!

NEVER JUDGE AN ARTICLE BY IT’S TITLE.
There will exemptions for “security reasons” HA.