The paper D&C led this morning's front page with a story on Massa's "no" vote on healthcare reform. The story covers a healthcare rally in Rochester where Dennis Kucinich was featured (via telephone).
I'm not going to join in on the bitching and moaning on this one.
There are so many examples of non-transparent transparency in DC that I'll give the Obama administration (and Congress) a second try to get it right. If you want to see Tom Reed or Eric Massa's financial disclosure form, you need to go to a room in Washington DC and copy a piece of paper. If you want to see the Defense earmarks, you need to copy them by hand from a binder in a committee office. In the case of recovery.gov, at least you can see what people put down on their disclosure form without making a trek to some back room in DC.
The problem here is the incorrect info people put on their disclosure forms. If the people back in the states who screwed up the forms had some consequences for their screw-up, we'd see a better recovery.gov.
Wed, 11/18/2009 - 07:51 — ElmerJK (not verified)
Seems to me that you could have tweaked your software to understand how many districts are in each state. That way the incorrect reports could have been followed up on.
Wed, 11/18/2009 - 08:00 — Rottenchester
I agree -- I'm just going to give them a chance to fix it before I complain too loudly. Those forms could have just been filed in a dusty attic somewhere and forgotten. So they get the benefit of the doubt for trying, and a second chance, from me.
Wed, 11/18/2009 - 13:58 — ElmerJK (not verified)
I agree with you - but these are the types of things that the Bush Administration would have been hammered for
Wed, 11/18/2009 - 14:04 — Rottenchester
But Obama is getting hammered -- there are a bunch of articles about this on the news sites.
We have yet to see if the Obama administration's screw ups are going to transcend some clerical errors on a website. Hopefully we won't have another Katrina to find out.
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Did Eric do as well for our district as Arizona's 15th district? 30 jobs have been created.
"There's one problem, though: There is no 15th congressional district in Arizona; the state has only eight districts."
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jobs-saved-created-congressional-district...
Gotta love the Obama team!
I'm not going to join in on the bitching and moaning on this one.
There are so many examples of non-transparent transparency in DC that I'll give the Obama administration (and Congress) a second try to get it right. If you want to see Tom Reed or Eric Massa's financial disclosure form, you need to go to a room in Washington DC and copy a piece of paper. If you want to see the Defense earmarks, you need to copy them by hand from a binder in a committee office. In the case of recovery.gov, at least you can see what people put down on their disclosure form without making a trek to some back room in DC.
The problem here is the incorrect info people put on their disclosure forms. If the people back in the states who screwed up the forms had some consequences for their screw-up, we'd see a better recovery.gov.
Seems to me that you could have tweaked your software to understand how many districts are in each state. That way the incorrect reports could have been followed up on.
I agree -- I'm just going to give them a chance to fix it before I complain too loudly. Those forms could have just been filed in a dusty attic somewhere and forgotten. So they get the benefit of the doubt for trying, and a second chance, from me.
I agree with you - but these are the types of things that the Bush Administration would have been hammered for
But Obama is getting hammered -- there are a bunch of articles about this on the news sites.
We have yet to see if the Obama administration's screw ups are going to transcend some clerical errors on a website. Hopefully we won't have another Katrina to find out.