Washington: Common sense isn't part of the job

Excuse me, what part of openness in government do these morons not understand. And the democrats are just as guilty. Their most recent incidents involve wanting openness in union balloting so that union cronies can badger those who vote against unions and the across the board liberal desire to kill and quash all efforts to require people to identify themselves while voting.

GOP Warns

Republicans are warning President Obama not to issue an executive order that would require government contractors to disclose their political donations.
Obama drafted the proposal last month, which is reminiscent of a provision in a Democratic bill called the Disclose Act that died in the Congress last year. 

That bill would have required corporations and unions to identify themselves in political ads they pay for – a response to a 5-4 Supreme Court ruling that upheld the First Amendment rights of these groups to spend money on campaign ads.

The proposed order would require government contractors to disclose all donations to federal candidates, political parties, committees or interest groups spending money on campaigns once the total exceeds $5,000 in a given year.

The White House has said the proposed order would provide transparency to taxpayers about political spending by government contractors.

And who is the president (any president) to issue executive orders to purposely attempt to thwart or side step constitutional directives of the Supreme Court.

The bottom line, Obama and the democrats didn't like the Supreme Court version last year concerning campaign contributions and the president let that be known with his snide sarcasm during the state of the union address that followed the ruling.

Something he did to personally attempt to chastise the members of the court present during the state of the union address. So now he believes that he can just do an 'end around' and poke the opposition in the eye with a sharp stick.

Fine, pass a law that requires disclosure, but also pass and support laws that protect our elections process from partisan cronyism.