C-SPAN Asks Dems to Keep Their Word & Open Obamacare Backroom Meetings to American Public
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, January 5, 2010, 6:08 AM
Barack Obama told Americans numerous times during the 2008 campaign that he was going to hold his health care talks on CSPAN.
He was lying. Democrats have kept the process private all along. They didn’t even give their members enough time to read the bill before it was voted on. They bribed members with $1.2 billion for their votes and this week they decided to hold private negotiations with House and Senate on how to swallow up the health care industry.
C-SPAN asked democrats to keep their word to the American public and quit holding backroom meeting on the government takeover of one-sixth of the nation’s economy.
FOX News reported:
The head of C-SPAN has implored Congress to open up the last leg of health care reform negotiations to the public, as top Democrats lay plans to hash out the final product among themselves.
C-SPAN CEO Brian Lamb wrote to leaders in the House and Senate Dec. 30 urging them to open “all important negotiations, including any conference committee meetings,” to televised coverage on his network.
“The C-SPAN networks will commit the necessary resources to covering all of the sessions LIVE and in their entirety,” he wrote.
Congressional leaders, however, reportedly are expected to bypass the traditional conference committee process, in which lawmakers from both parties and chambers meet to reconcile differences between the House and Senate versions of a bill. Instead, The Associated Press reports that top Democrats at the House, Senate and White House will figure out the final product in three-way talks before sending it back to both chambers for a final vote.
This format would seem ideal for closed-door meetings, which congressional Democrats have used many times to figure out sensitive provisions in the health care bill — though President Obama pledged during the campaign to open up health care talks to C-SPAN’s cameras.
Mary Katharine Ham has more on the criticism of the democrat’s conference process on health care.
The Obamacare talks this week will once again completely bar GOP lawmakers.
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USMC Thomas commented:
YOU LIE, Obama! I am Joe Wilson…No, I am Joe Wilson…No, I am Joe Wilson…No, I am Joe Wilson…No, I am Joe Wilson……No, I am Joe Wilson…No, I am Joe Wilson…
bg commented:
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OT..
Glenn Beck Show — Case Closed #1
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seven commented:
He made promises in the campaign. Now he is in and the promises are under the bus. This is what low ethics and no integrity look like.
jim from cleveland commented:
Hope? Change? Transparency? Nope. Arrogance, mendacity, and incompetence.
Saxton commented:
He is a dick ta tor! They is treason not to think of the peoples interests. We are being controlled by a Sorus Democrat dictatorship!!!! Treason! Treason! The Repubs should file a junction to stop the meeting without OPENESS! File a junction, file an investigation! File something! STOP them!
nelli commented:
Seems like I have a right to have the representatives that I voted for represent me in health care negotiations. Can I sue someone?
Good for C-Span, Obama invited them when it was advantageous to him, but now he never heard of them. Sounds familiar.
Michelle commented:
Thank you, Greta, for calling out the liar-in-chief.
Babsy commented:
dims lie? Who knew????
Joanne commented:
If Obamacare is so great, why no transparency? Duh!
mike191 commented:
Dear Mr. Lamb,during your tenure at C-Span have you ever had to write a comparable letter to Republicans “imploring” the need for open transparency on a vital proposed bill? My guess is no.
It was a valiant effort on your part to at least hold Dems to some transmutation from dictatorship to democracy.Moreover, barring any Republican input to this bill ends any notion of Democrats of being non-partisan and representing the American People.
Betsy Ross commented:
Question…..where is Michael Steele, Boehner, McConnel and any other Republican leader?
I am sick and tired of Repbulican leadership being AWOL on these important issues and leave all the heavy lifting to the likes of Brian Lamb? Where are you people?
Get out there and kick some butt….oh, I forgot…you might make a dem mad…
bill-tb commented:
C-SPAN, assume the Fox News position.
bg commented:
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ht Daniel McAndrew in a previous thread..
via Instapundit
[Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and/or Representatives, and Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States .]
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bg commented:
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oh btw, a Wake-up Call via M. Zuhdi Jasser
Islamists Insert Themselves into Healthcare Debate
[Sometimes, under the right light, the least obvious can become the most revealing. With all the national attention to health care policy, as if there were not enough organizations weighing in on the health care debate, recently the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) sent out a position statement admonishing the American public and their Muslim members that the, "Health care debate impeded by intimidation and the politics of fear."
What is remarkable and at issue here, is certainly not the right of MPAC's leadership to have a personal opinion on health care policy. But what is most telling is how these Islamist organizations have a way of finding a way to worm themselves and their Islamization agenda into every political issue related to government under the name of Islam and Muslims. As is typical of Islamists, they exploit Muslim faith based organizations and their often unsuspecting supporters and members for their own very specific domestic and foreign policy agenda of the day. This agenda clearly and malignantly crosses the line of mosque and state in an aim to impose the Islamization of every topic related to the domain of government and public policy upon the Muslim community and ultimately the greater American community.
Does this ring a bell? It's the modus operandi of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB). They are a well known political party in Egypt with a specific political platform that has now metastasized around the world into hundreds of splinter groups with a headquarters also in London. Ultimately that political platform is Islamism (a.k.a. Political Islam). Islamism is specifically the desire to somehow put shar'iah law (Islamic jurisprudence) into place in government through a legal system not based in reason but rather based in clerical exegesis of Islamic jurisprudence. The Brotherhood is the predominant global face or front of that movement.
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What they fail to realize, is not only are they crossing the line of
mosque and state, but they are alienating a large segment of the
Muslim community who are not looking to our faith-based org/s
to weigh in on issues like health care policy.]
thank you Imaman Obama..
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Finncrisp commented:
This so called process they are following is called “take the Constitution and shove it”. This unipartisan effort is unlike anything I have seen in my lifetime. The Dems have been hijacked by this Muslim in the White House and they don’t seem to care. The media doesn’t care, either. It is high time We the people show all of these stooges how much we care about America. Remember just a few short years ago, Republicans agonized about the nuclear option because of the filibustering that was going on in judicial appointments? What is being done to them now is the nuclear option on every front and in every way. The minority has been put on administrative leave while they take America away from us and install God knows what in it’s place. And Obama presides over this like it is business as usual.
Sojourner commented:
bg.. why do you have to be so right all the time? Just thinking: the lefties are busy grinding out health control behind closed doors while the rest of Congress is still outta’ town. I say their partisan party needs some crashing.. after all,the Salahis did it, why can’t our representatives with press in tow/cameras rolling, go to that room, slam on the door and demand seats at the table? Would make for interesting contrast to rolling over and playing dead, ya think?
Finncrisp commented:
Sent to Bill O’Reilly on his “Diminished Skills
Bill – Most nights you parade a gaggle of useful idiots and call it hard hitting analysis. Most nights, you have become one of the useful idiots. You really need to get your game together. Today, Congress has effectively declared the nuclear option on every aspect of the legislative process. For all practical intents and purposes, the Republicans are on administrative leave while the Democrats and our Muslim sympathizing president decide what will happen to ordinary Americans for the forseeable future. The useful idiot in you makes coverage of this unprecidented event impossible. Way to go, Mr. suddenly not Bold or Fresh.
bg commented:
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Sojourner @ 7:16 pm #25
they’re playing a very dangerous “thin-line” game.. between the powers who are using the Marxist Obama to transition US into the New World Order, and the Islamic “groomed” Obama prepping US for an Islamist take-over.. of which the one only result for US, as well as the rest of the world, will be to pay a heavy price for it one way or another..
right now both are aligned with & feeding off of one another so to speak..
should we not be capable of recapturing our leadership.. when the time comes (however long it takes, Islamism has no time-line, it’s on an incorrigible & resolute path), the Islamists will make their move & the Marxist crocs will find out the Islamist crocs are diversity cannibals the hard way..
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bg commented:
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Finncrisp @ 8:16 pm #26
Amen!! (thumbsup)
went back to basic cable (iow: canceled cable news etc..) the day
after “BO” agreed with Harry Reid that the war in Iraq was “lost”..
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bg commented:
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Sojourner @ 7:16 pm #25
thought of you while viewing this video..
ht Chisum in another thread..
enjoy!!
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