April 27, 2009
Hope 'N Change: Obama's batting .090
Pres. Obama's batting .090, which would be awful if he were a professional baseball player. As a president, well, it's pretty awful, too.
That translates to 1 in 11, which is how many times he kept a specific campaign promise relating to clean government.
President Obama promised on the campaign trail that he would have the most transparent administration in history. As part of this commitment, he said that the public would have five days to look online and find out what was in the bills that came to his desk before he signed them. It was his first broken promise, and it's the promise that keeps on breaking. He has now signed 11 bills into law and gone, at best, 1 for 11 on his five-day posting promise. The Obama administration should deliver on the Web-enabled transparency he promised and post bills for five days before signing.
As I've said before, every Obama promise comes with an expiration date. Transparency in governance? That had a January 29 sell-by date.
I'm not feeling very hopeful about the change we've seen so far.
New boss, same as the old boss.
Posted by Mike Lief at April 27, 2009 08:01 AM
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