Dem DC Delegate: Congress Has No Right To Know What WH Is Do

Riddick · Post by **Riddick** » 07-27-2014 02:03 AM

Eleanor Holmes Norton, the non-voting congressional delegate for the District of Columbia, angrily sputtered during a congressional hearing Friday that the White House should not be held up to scrutiny, saying that there was no right to know what it was doing behind closed doors.

“You don’t have a right to know everything in a separation-of-powers government, my friend. That is the difference between a parliamentary government and a separation-of-powers government,” Norton said during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing.

It was, to put mildly, a significant departure from the more traditional liberal stance that openness and transparency are must to prevent abuses of power by government officials. Instead the leading advocate for statehood for the District of Columbia literally argued that even the congressional committee charged with oversight shouldn’t be asking questions in the first place.

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BenSlain · Post by **BenSlain** » 07-27-2014 11:43 AM

How did this happen? It's like bizzar opposite world.

Riddick · Post by **Riddick** » 07-27-2014 02:59 PM

BenSlain wrote: How did this happen? It's like bizzar opposite world.

Is It A Bird? Is It A Plane? NO! It's
President Bizarro Barry...

Barack Obama as President is kind of like having an inhabitant from Bizarro World in the White House.
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kbot · Post by **kbot** » 07-27-2014 07:09 PM

“You don’t have a right to............" seems to be a phrase that has crept into the government's playbook a LOT more frequently since 9/11......... When the Right under "43"/ Cheney leaned this way, the Left howled.

Now....... not only is the Far Left on board, they're stoking the locomotive faster the the Neocons did. What's truly sad is the degree to which the Far Left has caved and adopted the "43"/ Cheney/ Wolfowitz et al plan and embellished the plan along the way.