Government Transparency and the Clusterfuck

Short story short, Obama is the only Democrat promising compliance with this. Which is no real surprise because he was the co-author, in the first place. Yet another reason that, despite his lack of experience, he's the front-runner of my heart.

What's more puzzling is the lack of support by the other Democrats, several of whom (Clinton and Dodd, I'm looking at you), actually co-sponsored the original bill. The Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act is already law; all you have to do is sign a statement that you will enforce it on sub-departments when you're executive in chief. I'm not sure whether the other Democrats just don't think it's an issue or are actually actively negative on this.

It's certainly an important issue for me. The next president needs to be free from the specter of secrecy and skullduggery that haunts the White House now. Please be straight with us.

clipped from blog.washingtonpost.com Support For Google Government It is one of the unlikelier alliances in the 2008 presidential campaign: what possibly could bring together Barack Obama, Sam Brownback and Ron Paul? The answer: the highly ambitious, if infelicitously named, Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act. The act is meant to bring average Americans a kind of Google for the federal government, an online search engine that will allow citizens to look up any company, organization or other entity receiving federal contracts, grants and earmarks. The act was passed by Congress and signed by President Bush last year, but some of its supporters charge that federal agencies are already dragging their feet on its implementation.