Most transparent administration ever!
The White House scoffs at the notion of an ulterior motive for scheduling meetings in what are, after all, meeting rooms. But at least four lobbyists who’ve been to the conference rooms just off Lafayette Square tell POLITICO they had the distinct impression they were being shunted off to Jackson Place – and off the books – so their visits wouldn’t later be made public.
Obama’s administration has touted its release of White House visitors logs as a breakthrough in transparency, as the first White House team ever to reveal the comings and goings around the West Wing and the Old Executive Office Building.
The Jackson Place townhouses are a different story.
There are no records of meetings at the row houses just off Lafayette Square that house the White House Conference Center and the Council on Environmental Quality, home to two of the busiest meeting spaces. The White House can’t say who attended meetings there, or how often. The Secret Service doesn’t log in visitors or require a background check the way it does at the main gates of the White House.
Lawless. Thuggish. Deceptive.
We deserve this guy: as a country, we went for style and spin and empty platitudes — and willfully blinded ourselves to who he is by ignoring who he’s always been.
Let’s hope we learned our lesson going forward.
We won’t be fooled again.
From your lips to Yaweh’s ears JHo. But I know you’re using “we” as “they”, seeing as very few here were ever fooled by this hoax of a low IQ, public access quiz show host, pompous protected-class human shielder president.
Some of us – those here having this conversation – weren’t fooled the first time. Those *other* people are increasingly unwilling to talk about it.
A guy at the gym told me the other day that Obama was still undoing the mess Bush had made.
I had to walk away, because yelling “FUCK” isn’t appropriate because there are little kids there.
You know a kick in his spandex balls is a proper rebuttal to that Carin.
Well, I’m pleased that Politico at least ran this story, but I’ll be more impressed when they actually ask Carney about it at a WH daily presser.
You know, motivated by the hypocrisy and all…
I walked up to him tuesday and said “$3.50 a gallon gas” and walked away.
A verbal nut-punt then. Good on ya!
It’s the Chicago way!!
I’m finding it harder and harder to be civil to these people…..Oh. Wait. Nevermind.
Carin: that guy sounds like he thinks “having credit card” = “got money”.
A verbal nut-punt then. Good on ya!
I should feel bad, because for all he hangs at the gym and tries to work out, you can’t tell. Apparently his physical calisthenics are as rigorous as his mental ones.
Ah, yes. One of that cadre who thinks that “going to the gym” will make you thinner and fitter, but has no idea what all those machine-thingies are for. Who’d have imagined that somebody like that would be an Obamaphile?