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More Obama "transparency"~


Kathryn Ruemmler is the White House counsel, President Obama's third White House counsel, in fact, following Robert Bauer and before him Greg Craig.

Ruemmler has been at her post since June 30. Bauer lasted 18 months in the job, the Siege Perilous of Team Obama, and Craig just a year.

Ruemmler is a formidable lawyer, a partner at the powerhouse law firm of Latham & Watkins before joining the Obama White House, and before that a prosecutor -- of Enron's Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, in fact.

So Ruemmler surely knows what a subpoena means and what its recipient is obliged to do when it comes to good faith compliance.

On Friday, Ruemmler sent Rep. Fred Upton, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Rep. Cliff Stearns, chairman of that panel's oversight and investigations subcommittee, a letter rejecting the committee's subpoena for all internal White House documents relating to Solyndra, the now-bankrupt solar panel maker with friends in high places that took a half billion in taxpayer dollars with it into insolvency.


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Yes, this is the most transparent administration in history. And up is down, down is up, black is white...etc, etc.
 
This may or may not be the most transparent administration EVAH, but this little shit-throw isn't evidence that it isn't.

Whether Congress likes it or not, Executive Privilege exists (thanks Dicks!).
 
Cornholio said:
This may or may not be the most transparent administration EVAH, but this little shit-throw isn't evidence that it isn't.

Whether Congress likes it or not, Executive Privilege exists (thanks Dicks!).
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Yet this is exactly the type of thing he was talking about when he said he'd be the "most transparent Administration EVAH"...
 
I know you guys really want a big scandal but this silly mess is not going to fill the bill for you.
 
Desperation mode is on another faulty teabagger flames out. If Obama wins it'll be fun to watch these facist heads explode for 4 years.
 
If Obama wins the tea party will be trash canned.

Its like I have been saying forf awhile now , the right can not win with the tea party or without them.

They are poison to a general election bid and the right will have to dump them entirely to ever be able to win an elections again.
 
Damocles said:
Yet this is exactly the type of thing he was talking about when he said he'd be the "most transparent Administration EVAH"...
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Really? He talked about waiving executive privilege in response to insanely overbroad Congressional subpoenas? I don't remember that.
 
evince said:
I know you guys really want a big scandal but this silly mess is not going to fill the bill for you.
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Tell us Desh.... what are they hiding? If there is nothing to Solyndra (despite Kaisers repeated visits to the White House) then why is the White House cowering in fear and refusing to release the information? Were you not one of the ones bitching and moaning when Cheney wouldn't release details of the Energy meetings in the White house?
 
Cornholio said:
Really? He talked about waiving executive privilege in response to insanely overbroad Congressional subpoenas? I don't remember that.
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Let me guess, its 'insanely overboard' because a Rep issued the subpoena to a Dem President? Is that what makes it 'insanely overboard'???
 
evince said:
If Obama wins the tea party will be trash canned.

Its like I have been saying forf awhile now , the right can not win with the tea party or without them.

They are poison to a general election bid and the right will have to dump them entirely to ever be able to win an elections again.
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it would be extremely volatile to shun the TEA party at that particular moment in time
 
Superfreak said:
Let me guess, its 'insanely overboard' because a Rep issued the subpoena to a Dem President? Is that what makes it 'insanely overboard'???
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Actually, you can go read the Supreme Court's opinion in the Energy Task Force matter if you want to understand why the subpoena is overbroad (not board, although it is that too).
 
SmarterThanYou said:
eh, goose....gander....good for it. you know how it is.
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Are you speaking for yourself? Because you tend to do something similar to Damo. At least w/ me, there are probably a dozen times I can think of where you have me saying or believing whatever you think "Joe Liberal" would be saying.

It's pretty annoying.
 
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