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Wednesday, March 30th, 2011
Meet the hypocrites: Congressman Doc Hastings
Meet Congressman Doc Hastings (R‑Pasco), champion of open government:
Those words, dated February 25, 2011, were taken from Congressman Hastings’ weekly column on his congressional website. But what a difference a month makes!
Today, Doc Hastings is exposed as our latest hypocrite as he and his staff engaged in a cloak and dagger operation to secretly draft three offshore drilling bills, with the help of Big Oil (a la Dick Cheney).
While the story of Doc Hastings’ clandestine legislative activity just broke yesterday, there can be no doubt that the crafting of these bills has been going on for weeks, if not months, demonstrating how hollow the Congressman’s words in his weekly column are with regard to transparency in government.
We see how our government works, Congressman Hastings, and it’s not the way you allegedly profess that it should . We see secret meetings with corporate interests to draft bills that are favorable to them but not to the people you represent. It’s the same game that was played when you and your colleagues left the financial services industry to its own devices in the name of deregulation.
# Written by Ken :: 8:35 PM
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