TRANSPARENCY I can believe in: transcripts of every talk between White House & insurance companies

[yurbud]

or better yet video.

Include the conversations between the Blue Dog committee chairs and congress members dragging their feet and opposing real change as well.

We should be able to see or read every demand the insurance and pharma execs asked for, and every concession they were promised--and what they promised or implied in return.

Every word that passes between corporate lobbyists or execs and elected officials (and probably supreme court justices) whether in their offices, on the golf course, at dinner, or during some bachanal in a yacht off-shore should be a matter of public record, so we can know whether they are looking out for us or looking for a way to guy us like fish.

[DJ13]

1. You forgot to include Palin or football in the subject line

Thats why Im the first rec.

K&R!

[avaistheone1]

11. I'll give it a kick for the same reason (thank god not another palin thread) &

a recommend because health care is a key issue for the President to demonstrate his administration's commitment to transparency.

BTW all the transcripts of Obama's meeting with Billy T. from Big Pharma should be made public too.

[gateley]

2. As someone posted here -- all the 'real' talking

goes on behind closed doors anyway.

[yurbud]

3. we need to break down the doors and put some heads on pikes

metaphorically of course.

[saracat]

4. No kidding. The biweekly meeting with Tauzin and Obama should be public for starters!

But that ain't NEVER gonna happen because they aren't transparent about anything anyone really needs to know.That was proved with the closed door meeting on nHCR that were blamed on "location".They could have released videos even iof live proceedings weren't possible.And they KNOW it.

[yurbud]

7. any meeting with a radioactive piece of shit like that should be broadcast live preferably with...

a colonscopy cam in Tauzin to boot (not to see the pictures, just to give him grief).

[inna]

5. no kidding, and it doesn't hurt to dream.

.eyes.

[truedelphi]

6. Finally an OP that one can sink their teeth in

And not another post over the horrors of Palin, the wonders of the Super Bowl Commercials or any of a number of items that all add up to ignoring the state of affairs.
So many on DU are all about the tried-and-true distraction from the moral bankruptcy now defining our collective authoritarian mindset.
A society that cares not one whit about the real values needed to restore our land to some semblance of democracy.

Would the release of the names and the corresponding emails etc of everyone who played a part in handing We the unwashed masses a sad and sorry travesty of a Health Care Reform Bill actually help our nation rise to its former greatness?

Probably not, as it would be only a baby step.
But those of us who areor pissed off crazy right would be glad that someone at 1600 Pennsylvania remembers one of the mostly forgotten pledges about transparency that was to have its day if Obama won.

[yurbud]

8. Janeane Garafalo once said every day with the GOP is opposite day. Unfortunately...

it's also true of Dems elected president.

[bvar22]

9. You should write campaign speeches for Team Obama.

Sounds a lot like Campaign Obama, not to be confused with President Obama.

[yurbud]

10. sad but true

[Hippo_Tron]

12. I would agree just not retroactively

At this point releasing anything done in the backrooms would only help the Republicans who will subsequently come to power and not be transparent about any of their dealings and I'd prefer status quo Dems to status quo Republicans.

Transparency works as a self-imposed deterrent from actually making any shady backroom deals. If they had started with transparency it would've been great. They didn't and quite frankly perhaps they should have. But we are where we are now and humiliating the administration and the party isn't going to do us any good.

[yurbud]

13. they have humiliated us as David Sirota so painfully pointed out. We thought we were voting for

someone to go to bat for us, and instead, the only positive change they will give us is what the corporations deign to allow.