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Really? He's going to put all the information online so people can see where their money is going? After the most secretive presidency in the history of the country, a president who repeatedly invoked executive privilege, classified information, defied congressional subpoenas all in all creating damage to just about everything from the economy to the energy policy to foreign policy and torture, what are we doing to correct that?
Make Congress (the branch charged with deciding how to spend money) more transparent. How about changing the new method of creating legislation that Barney Frank explained during the bailout #1? They write the legislation, we vote on it. When Frank said that, I thought I was listening to Stephen Colbert.
Good to see that after the worst president in history, the new president is going to keep Congress honest. I suspect executive privilege and secret cabinet meetings will still be the order of the day, though. Thomas Tamm will no doubt have company if anyone blows whistles on the new guy, too.
