President Obama,Where Are Those C-SPAN Cameras?

By David Corn,Politics Daily

Obama breaks another campaign promise

If I had been at the White House daily press briefing on Thursday,I would have asked an obvious question:

Robert,The New York Times reports that the White House has cut a behind-the-scenes deal with drug industry lobbyists [...]

Obama ignores pledge to let people read bills before passage

By Edwin Mora and Adam Brickley,CNSNEws

Obama had promised Congress would actually read bills before voting

Almost all of the House members surveyed Friday by CNSNews.com had not read the entire 1,200-page climate-change bill before they were to cast their vote Friday evening. But almost all of them knew how they were going [...]

Obama Closes Doors on Openness

By Michael Isikoff,NEWSWEEK

Barack Obama goes by the same rules as Bush

As a senator,Barack Obama denounced the Bush administration for holding “secret energy meetings”with oil executives at the White House. But last week public-interest groups were dismayed when his own administration rejected a Freedom of Information Act request [...]

Obama sidesteps Pledge on Donations

By JEFF ZELENY,New York Times

Obama bans lobbyists…but still accepts their money

When President Obama arrived at the Mandarin Oriental hotel for a fund-raising reception on Thursday night,the new White House rules of political purity were in order:no lobbyists allowed.

But at the same downtown hotel [...]

Obama blocks list of visitors to White House

By Bill Dedman,MSNBC.com

So much for transparency,Obama adopts closed book policy

The Obama administration is fighting to block access to names of visitors to the White House,taking up the Bush administration argument that a president doesn’t have to reveal who comes calling to influence policy decisions.

Despite [...]

Obama pledges Transparency