California Conservative

A couple weeks ago, Ed and I agreed that things can’t be going good when you lose Maureen Dowd.

Ed correctly noted that Democrats are in trouble if they’ve lost the Maureen Dowd vote. I heartily concur with Ed’s opinion.

Imagine then what type of trouble this administration is in if they’re now losing the Jack Cafferty vote:

Hot Air has the transcript:

How dare they? President Obama, Democratic leaders have decided to bypass a formal House and Senate conference committee in order to reconcile those two health care bills. Instead, White House and Democratic leaders will hold informal…that’s another word for secret…negotiations, meant to shut Republicans and the public out of the process.

What a far cry from the election, when then candidate Obama pledged to, quote, “broadcast health care negotiations on C-SPAN, so that the American people can see what the choices are”, unquote.

President Obama hasn’t even made a token effort to keep his campaign promises of more openness and transparency in government. It was all just another lie that was told in order to get elected. The head of C-SPAN wrote a letter, asked Congress to, quote, “open all the important negotiations, including any conference committee meetings, to electronic media coverage”, unquote. When White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was asked whether the administration would support televising the negotiations, he refused to answer, instead mumbling something about, well, I haven’t seen the letter.

That wasn’t the question, Mr. Gibbs. You either support openness or you don’t. The Democrats insist this is all on the up-and-up, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying, quote, “There’s never been a more open process for any legislation.”, unquote.

Really? This is the same Nancy Pelosi who you may recall, after becoming speaker in 2006, promised the Democrats would have, quote, “the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history”, unquote.

Here’s hoping the voters remember some of this crap when the midterm elections roll around later this year.

Check out that last sentence. OUCH!!! That message is directed solely at Democrats. They’re the people with the aurhority to authorize C-SPAN’s cameras. With media outlets like CBS and CNN now howling about the Democrats’ secretiveness and the bribes that senators like Ben Nelson and Mary Landrieu accepted for their votes, this is a lose-lose situation for Democrats.

In fact, I’d argue that it’s an explosive situation with the potential to turn a difficult election cycle for Democrats into a landslide of historic proportions.

It’s entirely possible that Speaker Pelosi and President Obama decide to keep the process secret. It’s entirely possible that they’re willing to lose their majority to pass this legislation. It’s long been known that universal health care is the Democrats’ Holy Grail, the one thing that they’re willing to die for.

What I will tell you is this: Democrats aren’t just going through a difficult situation. They’re in deep trouble. Travis Childers is in trouble in Mississippi. Phil Hare is in trouble in Illinois.

Progressives are getting upset with President Obama on a range of issues. They’re upset that he hasn’t shut Gitmo. They’re furious that he agreed to the individual mandate because they see it as a windfall for ‘big insurance’.

Meanwhile, Democrats will suffer from what they see as the Democrats’ incompetence in preventing terrorist attacks. It isn’t fair but that’s what happens when government malfunctions this badly.

The national mood was already sour following Congress’s secretive behavior on the stimulus and Congress essentially ignoring the things they heard during the townhall meetings. Following those fights, the Senate Finance Committee wouldn’t let the public see the bill that they’d put together, saying that it wasn’t written in legislative language.

The bottom line is that President Obama and Speaker Pelosi are willing to force people to walk the plank for their radical agenda. If secret negotiations are what’s required to pass their agenda, then that’s what they’ll use. It’s worth noting that transparency is easy if you’re pushing appealing legislation. The only time secrecy, bribery and limited debate is needed is when you’re pushing unpopular legislation and you need to buy votes.

My message ot President Obama and Speaker Pelosi is simple: Welcome to the revolution.

Technorati Tags: Media, Maureen Dowd, NY Times, Jack Cafferty, CNN, Brian Lamb, C-SPAN, Transparency, President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, Robert Gibbs, Democrats, Election 2010

Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

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