Member of the the Presidential Economic Recovery Advisory Board at a public meeting. (Photo credit: Barrett Anspach)
This is another one of those stories the media would be all over if it involved a president named Bush instead of one named Obama.
Nearly two months after President Obama named a high-level panel to help solve the economic crisis, the group still hasn’t held a public meeting. The Presidential Economic Recovery Advisory Board initially said it would meet every few weeks. That was changed to monthly. And that was updated to four times a year.
Here’s how Politico.com reports it:
(C)omments from board members and Obama himself indicate that some members of the panel are meeting, in smaller gatherings that have not been announced or opened to the public. And that raises the question of whether an administration that prides itself on openness and transparency is in fact finding it more convenient to conduct public business in private.
Now, the administration finds itself in a Catch-22: It does not want to say that the president’s economic panel, announced amid much fanfare, is not meeting during the worst economic crisis in generations. But if it is meeting, where’s the announcement, the agenda, the minutes? In short, where’s the sunshine?
Rest assured, we’ll follow up on this story tomorrow. Or next week. Or in late spring. Or whenever this group actually meets. Or doesn’t meet. Or whatever.
Source: Politico.com
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It’s always fun sharing the comments I see on liberal sites about our articles. This one is from Reddit. It’s not supposed to be a liberal site, but like most of these types of sites, it’s infested primarily with the far left, and they seem to feel its their duty to keep the right away.
Funny, I always thought that the whole question authority and dissent bit was “owned” by the left. But now that their man, the ultimate man, is in office, I guess that’s out the window. Is the new mantra of the left now, Don’t Question Obama?
Who am I to question? I explained it very simply: an citizen of the United States of America.
maybe they are busy trying to respond to your FOIA request.
Hello. And Se ya later)).