Editorial - 03 Jan 10
Time for the Baltimore Sun to Request Federal Transparency
W
e're a little surprised at the Sun's call for transparency in state government, given how the Sun has embraced the Obama Administration's tactics over the last 12 months.
The Obama Administration has operated under a cloak of darkness.
There's been no accounting for how the TARP funds have been used, and the government site set-up to track stimulus spending has been revealed to be fraught with errors and shady accounting, as has the CBO's health care estimate.
Despite being one of the princes of pork while in Congress, Obama promised during the campaign to veto any bill laden with pork. Instead, earlier this year Obama signed off on the massive pork-filled Stimulus bill, and just this week signed off on a defense bill laden with almost 2000 pork projects totaling over $4 billion.
Perhaps most disturbingly, Obama promised that the health care debate would be an open, inclusive process telecast on C-Span. Instead, it's been a closed process, the Republicans and the American public have been shut out, and it's been passed so far on a series of back room deals and coercions that represent the worst in American politics. Oh, and none of the back-room deals were televised on C-SPAN.
Would it be too much to ask that the Sun, for once, be consistent in it's beliefs?
Why request transparency from Maryland politicians when the Sun gladly accepts less from the Obama Administration?
Why request accountability from Maryland politicians when the Sun endorses, supports and willingly accepts
federal politicians who break campaign promise after campaign promise, with no accountability and no
big-media scrutiny? If not for Fox News and the Internet, we don't think we, the public, would have the slightest idea what's going on in this Administration.
Editor - bethesite.com
