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In reply to the discussion: Guard tells Senator Boxer that she can't take notes on TPP [View all]Divernan
(15,480 posts)87. Signed Jan. 21, 2009 - the times, they've been a-changin'
Bill Clinton: "It depends on what your definition of "is" is. For Obama, it all depends on what your definition of "transparency" is.
Words and deeds, baby, words and deeds. I always vote based on the latter, not the former.
Or as the Marlon Brando character in the old film, One Eyed Jacks said, "Talk is cheap, Jack. Make your play."
http://govfresh.com/2009/12/white-house-transparency-and-open-government-memorandum/
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If the TPP passes, is there any conceivable way it can be challenged/rolled-back?
erronis
May 2015
#84
Yes! A senatorial arrest or two for taking notes could make clear what's going on.
hedda_foil
May 2015
#35
I dont know who they are, but I do know that this president has been obstructed unlike any
randys1
May 2015
#28
Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government;
Tierra_y_Libertad
May 2015
#21
This must be a pack of lies! Right here on DU I have been told by several members that
A Simple Game
May 2015
#24
Congress did not have access to FDR's trade negotiations nor Obama's Iranian negotiations.
pampango
May 2015
#39
If confidential international negotiations are 'wrong', we'll have to come up with another method
pampango
May 2015
#43
But but but ..I just read on the White House website that Obama runs the most transparent in history
LiberalLovinLug
May 2015
#86
Do we know who the people are who are negotiating, and ARE allowed to look at it?
arcane1
May 2015
#51
nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity. Lord Acton
Tierra_y_Libertad
May 2015
#54
"What ya in for, kid?" "Taking illegal notes". And they all moved away from her on the bench...n/t
jtuck004
May 2015
#58
This is Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit. People need to wake up. What is so damn secret that they don't
YOHABLO
May 2015
#60
play the two level game, Mr. President. Stop acting like some shady prick.
Ed Suspicious
May 2015
#62
Boxer was my Senator for many years, and my quess is she didn't quite believe or grasp what
libdem4life
May 2015
#64
Here is what is wrong - if it is not finished, then why the rush to have Fast Track?
djean111
May 2015
#78