Is the President Keeping His Promises? NO!

Americans cannot trust President Obama to keep his promises. For instance, he promised more government transparency in making legislation when he promised that any negotiations on health care would be broadcast on C-SPAN, “so the American people can see what the choices are,” and not conducted behind closed doors. “Such public negotiations,” he said, were “the antidote “to “overcoming the special interests and the lobbyists who…will resist anything that we try to do.” He made this promise eight different times, indicating that this was not an idle whim. He had thought this promise through in a thoroughgoing way. But what do we see now? Closed session legislative planning that excludes his political opposition and hides the issues from the American public. We see no formal legislative conference between the House and the Senate on this issue.

His style is clearly seen to be backroom legislative drafting to keep the negotiating away from the American people. Where is the “transparency” he promised our people?