[Update] Whaaaaaaaaat?!?!! MSNBC’s David Shuster calls Obama “hypocritical”?
By SusanUnPC on January 30, 2009 at 8:30 PM in Backtrack Obama, Barack Obama, David Shuster, Flip Flopping, Lobbyists, MSNBC, Media Handling of Story, Obama Administration, Obama's Broken Promises, Obama's Cabinet
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MSNBC went all out to get Obama elected, but now they’re tiptoeing into dangerous territory! Criticizing The One is verrrrrrry risky — as all of us at No Quarter know only too well after non-stop attacks for the past 15+ months!
UPDATE: Besides that one Politico report, there are two more revelations about Obama’s failures to live up to his promises:
(1) “Obama team’s finances hard to access“
Even as President Barack Obama issued new rules to make government more open and transparent, his administration is relying on an antiquated and opaque disclosure system.
Anyone seeking copies of the financial disclosure reports recently filed by members of his Cabinet and his top aides has to navigate an arcane and intrusive bureaucracy reliant on faxes, dense government forms, snail mail, or proximity to Washington, plus an insider’s knowledge of an unpredictable schedule dictated by a host of government officials.
Simply put, it’s a system that seems to run counter to Obama’s talk and his new rules about using technology to open the halls of the federal government to the public.
To be sure, the process for filing and releasing disclosure reports is a legacy that Obama has inherited from previous administrations – and one not easily changed in the first days of the new administration.
But it’s one that he could bring into the 21st century on his own – without congressional action – by executive order, which he was urged to do in post-election meetings that his team arranged with advocates for heightened government disclosure.
It’s especially anachronistic for financial disclosure forms – which are intended to ensure government employees’ economic interests do not conflict with their officials duties – to be so difficult to get, said Massie Ritsch, spokesman for the Center for Responsive Politics.
The non-partisan government watchdog group recommended the new president tighten reporting requirements, make the disclosure forms electronic and searchable and put them online quickly. … Read all
(2) “An online promise unmet“
Barack Obama’s campaign realized the potential of the Internet in politics, but his new White House website is still scrambling to approach his campaign promises of a more interactive government.
The Transition apparently didn’t arrive with a readymade template for the site, which has been developing in fits and starts since Obama’s Inauguration. Today, the Sunlight Foundation’s Paul Blumenthal pointed out a broken promise: Today’s Liily Ledbetter Act was not posted online for five days in advance of signing, as Obama had pledged.
Another flaw: WhiteHouse.gov, which is the official website of the American presidency, hasn’t been updated to show that Hillary Clinton and other Cabinet officials have been confirmed in their posiitons.
What??? The White House Web site isn’t updated to show the cabinet officials who’ve been confirmed?
Just who is in charge of this government anyway?
Oh wait … right ….
Well, he’ll come back to life when the next campaign begins.
Maybe that honeymoon really IS over!
See also: “ Is it true? Did Obama’s honeymoon end before it had a chance to begin?”
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