Sounds great, so why not before?
President-elect Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan won't include money for politicians' pet projects and will include provisions aimed at ensuring his administration is open and accountable to taxpayers and Congress, a transition official said Tuesday.
As part of the package likely to cost as much as $775 billion, Obama plans to establish an oversight body to meet publicly and issue reports to Congress on how the money is being spent. The president-elect also plans to create a user-friendly Internet site to allow people to track the flow of dollars.
The official who disclosed the details spoke on the condition of anonymity because Obama planned to make the official announcement during a meeting later with his economic advisers.
So, when Obama was working the phones for the Bush + Reid + Pelosi + Obama + Paulson bailout, why wasn't he pushing for accountability then? It's not lilke he, and the Democrats, didn't have leverage, since the bill had to be passed NOW NOW NOW NOW, right?
And why not push for accountability for the trillions that are already gone? Sure, that would irritate Hank Paulson's golfing buddies, but that's a bad thing why? Come on! Elizabeth Warren could use some help here!
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He wasn't even interested
Remember when McCain and Bush dragged his skinny ass back to Washington? Why didn't he have a plan then to hold them accountable? He could have slammed his shoe on the podium and demanded accountability. What did he say instead?
{{crickets}}
He's already a failure. Hillary was scrambling around from morning show to morning show trying to get the ball rolling and she was ignored because it was the middle of the campaign and the media had written her off.
Can we storm the media castles yet?
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Good
Good. Really. At least this means when the doors are pushed or pulled open, again, their will be nothing left to escape, because nothing would have been placed back inside the doors in the first place. Or, so we hope.
But, we've always been at war with Eastasia...