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In reply to the discussion: Mark Fiore is very cross about TPP transparency. This one's a little painful to watch. [View all]raindaddy
(1,370 posts)11. How do you get from this.....
"Transparency promotes accountability and provides information for citizens about what their Government is doing. Information maintained by the Federal Government is a national asset. My Administration will take appropriate action, consistent with law and policy, to disclose information rapidly in forms that the public can readily find and use."
To this?
The guard says, you cant take notes. I said, I cant take notes? Boxer recalled. Well, you can take notes, but have to give them back to me, and Ill put them in a file. So I said: Wait a minute. Im going to take notes and then youre going to take my notes away from me and then youre going to have them in a file, and you can read my notes? Not on your life.
-Barbara Boxer
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Mark Fiore is very cross about TPP transparency. This one's a little painful to watch. [View all]
madfloridian
May 2015
OP
Fiore may be a Pulitzer Prize cartoonist, but he is not getting one soon for writing skills. Or logic.
Fred Sanders
May 2015
#5
I have not seen those journalistst's cartoon creations, so hard to say how I would feel.
Fred Sanders
May 2015
#25
But do we still have to pay for the old one that left us? It was supposed to be ours. We had a title
jtuck004
May 2015
#41
When I point out the duplicity, I'm told I should have known he made shit up to get elected.
whereisjustice
May 2015
#35
amen, the political elite like Hillary are so twisted up in schemes and self-interest they cannot
whereisjustice
May 2015
#39
Obama sings his updated version of the James Taylor hit, "Don't Let Me be Lonely Tonight"
nikto
May 2015
#50