In my latest column for the American Spectator, I delve further into the waiver scandal and the breathtaking hypocrisy of the President on secret meetings with health care stakeholders during the ObamaCare debate:
In a 2006 speech to the National Press Club about lobbying reform, then Senator Barack Obama waxed eloquent about the malevolent influence of special interests on Washington politics: ‘The American people are tired of a Washington that’s only open to those with the most cash and the right connections.’
And, alluding to that infamous hive of villainy, the Bush administration, he added:
When big oil companies are invited into the White House for secret energy meetings, it’s no wonder they end up with billions in tax breaks while Americans still struggle to fill up their gas tanks and heat their homes.
But when Obama moved to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue he began receiving a steady stream of visitors with considerable interest in the health care “reform” legislation.
Now the White House refuses to turn over records of those secret meetings. Does anyone really believe that the tsunami of waivers is unrelated to those meetings? Read the rest of the column here.
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The Democrats asked the Bush Administration to disclose the names of the participants in Dick Cheney’s Energy Task Force. (The same type of information that the White House provided to the Republicans this week about healthcare.) They did not demand, as the Republicans have demanded this year, every single document, email, phone call record, personal note created by any member of the Administration in the course of its deliberations and discussions with constituencies affected by a complicated policy process.
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