DemProg Hubris Reaches New Level: ‘You don’t have a right to know what the government is doing’

If a Republican were in the Oval Office right now, the Dems would be having grand mal seizures over the corruption and secrecy.

From the Washington Examiner.

Eleanor Holmes Norton, the non-voting congressional delegate for the District of Columbia, angrily sputtered during a congressional hearing Friday that the White House should not be held up to scrutiny, saying that there was no right to know what it was doing behind closed doors.

“You don’t have a right to know everything in a separation-of-powers government, my friend. That is the difference between a parliamentary government and a separation-of-powers government,” Norton said during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing.

It was, to put mildly, a significant departure from the more traditional liberal stance that openness and transparency are must to prevent abuses of power by government officials. Instead the leading advocate for statehood for the District of Columbia literally argued that even the congressional committee charged with oversight shouldn’t be asking questions in the first place.

She made the comments while protesting the committee’s Republican majority for voting to ignore a claim by the White House that David Simas, director of its Office of Political Strategy and Outreach, was immune to a congressional subpoena to testify. Republicans believe the office is being used a political campaign operation, a violation of federal election law.

Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., noted he was not alleging any wrongdoing by Simas, but there was a history of violations involving that particular office in prior administrations that justified requesting his testimony.

Under Obama, the White House has asserted sweeping executive powers, including the right to ignore pretty much all congressional inquiries. The administration has regularly ignored subpoenas from congressional committees.

……”The president’s immediate advisor is not an agency and this is not a matter of policy,” she said, before going to further clarify that we “don’t have a right to know” everything that the administration does.

Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., top ranking Democrat on the Oversight Committee, thanked Holmes for her comments.

“I associate myself with your comments,” Cummings added, thus making it clear that he doesn’t believe the public has right to know what is going on inside the White House either.

Just a reminder: Holmes is the same scrunt who took part in walking out on the the families of Obama’s Benghazi failure, and shook down a lobbyist for money.

Cummings is the same douchebag who received illicit emails from IRS corruptocrat Lois Lerner regarding information about True The Vote, an anti-voter fraud organization; just one of the groups Lerner targeted.

Both are listed as members of the Socialist Party Caucus.

Dems concocted the entire ObamaCare disaster behind closed doors and away from public debate. Behind closed doors, Obama signed the bill allowing $7 trillion to be added to the national debt. White House spokes-tools held a behind closed doors press briefing to give bullshit talking points on Benghazi. Obama negotiated payoffs and tax exemptions with union thugs behind closed doors.

In 2010, the most “transparent” administration in American history abolished the position dedicated to transparency and passed those duties to a partisan hack who is openly antagonistic to the notion of disclosure by government and politicians.

The masses are not privy to the policy agendas of The State. You’re not on the ‘need to know’ list because you’re too stupid to grasp the complicated intricacies of government.

I’m going to remember this shit with a vengeance. The next time a Republican president engages in behind-closed doors decision making, I will remind assholes like Holmes -Norton that it’s none of her goddamned business.

Had enough, America?