Texas Sen. John Cornyn, accusing the White House of compiling an "enemies list," has asked President Barack Obama to stop an effort to collect "fishy" information Americans see about a health care overhaul.
Cornyn, who leads the Republicans' Senate campaign effort, said Wednesday in a letter to Obama that he's concerned that citizen engagement on the issue could be "chilled." He also expressed alarm that the White House could end up collecting electronic information on its critics.
"I can only imagine the level of justifiable outrage had your predecessor asked Americans to forward e-mails critical of his policies to the White House," Cornyn wrote.
Cornyn was responding to a post on the White House's blog Wednesday in which users are asked to help stop the spread of disinformation about legislation to overhaul health insurance. The post offers an e-mail address, flag@whitehouse.gov, for users to forward anything "on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy."
The White House said the post was merely designed to fight "intentionally misleading" information in the health care debate.
Regardless of the intentions, what President Obama is doing is chillingly close to what was done in Soviet Russia and other totalitarian government, by using people thinking they are doing their country a favor to collect oppo information.
It is not appropriate and we urge all Democrats to ask the White House to put a hold on the free speech violations and start fighting against policy disagreements by pushing their own policies and not collecting others and calling them lies.
Source: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/state/stories/DN-cornynflag_06nat.ART.State.Edition1.4bb4d44.html
Showing posts with label Chicago School of Politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chicago School of Politics. Show all posts
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Oh, Rahm!
The House investigative committee’s top-ranking Republican wants White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel to answer for allegations that he used “Chicago-style scare tactics” to intimidate lawmakers who say the economic stimulus has failed.
According to reports, Emanuel directed four Cabinet secretaries to send what Issa characterized as “threatening letters,” in which they asked whether Brewer preferred to “forfeit the money [they] are making available to Arizona,” in light of Kyl’s comments one day prior when he “publicly questioned whether the stimulus is working and stated that he wants to cancel projects that aren’t presently under way.”
Well, not that anything will come of it, but it's great to see that Chicago CAN be macro-ed out to the whole nation! As if we didn't have enough problems...
Source: http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/issa-wants-answers-from-emanuel-on-allegations-2009-08-04.html
According to reports, Emanuel directed four Cabinet secretaries to send what Issa characterized as “threatening letters,” in which they asked whether Brewer preferred to “forfeit the money [they] are making available to Arizona,” in light of Kyl’s comments one day prior when he “publicly questioned whether the stimulus is working and stated that he wants to cancel projects that aren’t presently under way.”
Well, not that anything will come of it, but it's great to see that Chicago CAN be macro-ed out to the whole nation! As if we didn't have enough problems...
Source: http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/issa-wants-answers-from-emanuel-on-allegations-2009-08-04.html
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