I Can’t See Through Obama’s Transparency

Dear President Obama:

If America does end up getting saddled with this “health care reform” package, I hope there is a provision that will allow me to get some really strong glasses.

Because I am really having a difficult time seeing through the transparency of your White House.

And it has to be poor eyesight on my part, since I plainly remember during and after the campaign promising the following:

“My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government.”

Thank God that I remembered that statement, for a while there I thought I was becoming delusional.

Which would have been a real problem in that the people drafting your health care reform bill don’t consider dementia as a condition that should be covered.

However, I still have a problem.

Mr. Obama, I recall you pledging that any piece of legislation that lands on your desk would be available on the internet for people to examine for at least five days before he signed it into law.

I developed carpal tunnel syndrome trying to find the economic stimulus bill, to no avail.

And after my internet service provider explained to me that they were not part of a vast right-wing conspiracy blocking my access to it, we are now on speaking terms again.

Then I remembered how, during the campaign, you berated the Bush administration for not making available to the public a visitors log of who was going in and out of the White House to discuss ongoing legislation negotiations.

That one is understandable, with a bill that’s a thousand pages long you may have used up your supply of ink pens.

Then it hit me.

You pledged that the health care bill drafting process would be covered on C-Span!!!

I didn’t want to yell at my satellite television provider because my C-Span channel wasn’t airing live coverage of the health care negotiations, so I thought that rather than going through the same thing I did with my internet provider, I’d climb up on the roof and adjust the dish myself.

I admit that doing it during a thunderstorm probably wasn’t the best course of action, but I really didn’t get hurt that badly when I fell off of the roof, (luckily I grabbed onto the dish and it broke my fall) and the burns I received when I got struck by lightning are healing nicely, thank you.

Regardless, something this still not right.

I know my internet connection is OK.
My satellite dish  (after they put up a new one) is working properly.

Even the infection I got  when the rabid squirrel who was living in my attic bit me when I went up there to find an old VCR to tape the C-Span coverage on is clearing up.

My doctor says it’s even money that I will recover full use of my right arm.

But things still aren’t right.

Internet, OK.
C-Span is coming in loud and clear.

Yet I still don’t see the transparency that you promised to the American public.

I still don’t see the things you promised coming true.
It must be a problem with my vision.

So, as part of your health care bill, do you think you could add a provision that will allow me to get glasses so that I can see the things you promised?

Just please to be sure to allocate enough funding.

Because glasses powerful enough to allow someone to see you keeping the promises you made are bound to be very expensive.

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