It’s pretty darn ingenious, when you think about it.
The White House wants to force companies to report all of their political activity when applying for government contracts so they can “punish their enemies”, but the President is presenting this as a way to increase “transparency”, even though unions would be exempt from such disclosure.
The irony seemed to escape administration flack, Daniel Gordon, as he attempted to explain to Congress the need for this transparency, while invoking executive privilege to dodge questions from Congressmen.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee presents: White House: Transparency Behind Closed Doors?
“Does it strike you at all as being ironic to invoke confidentiality and not answering questions when we’re having a hearing about transparency?” – Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC)
“It does not, sir. I think there are discussions, even about transparency and developing rules about transparency that we need to be able to have quietly and behind closed doors.” – Hon. Daniel Gordon, Administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President
video via Hot Air
Congressman Allen West was especially good in his grilling of the Obama bureauweenie:
video via Moonbattery
Previously:
The Chicago Way: Obama Administration’s Cronyism Reaches New Heights
May, 16, 2011 at 3:10 pm
“Shut up”, he explained.
I can certainly understand the need for secrecy (=”opaqueness”) in hearings involving national security, but to claim that any hearing on transparency needs to be opaque, is beyond human understanding.
The Obama Position is, “You need to be transparent. We don’t.”
“… even about transparency and developing rules about transparency that we need to be able to have quietly and behind closed doors…”
Like, for example, who we’re going to let ignore the rules, who we’re going to give special privileges to, who we’re going to force transparency on, …
Especially telling is the union exemption.
May, 18, 2011 at 9:05 am
The “irony” of all this has been lost on no one, least of all the administration and all its sycophants. They’re laughing all the way to re-election about the fools taken in by such things as this.
Black is white. Good is evil, evil is good. Up is down and down is up. This is simply another twisting of the language to suit their purposes and confuse an already confounded, adoring stupid public. And, simply, the direct result of decades of educational abuse of true teaching/learning.