Democrats: You Don't Have A Right to Know

Posted by Douglas V. Gibbs

From Tea Party Network News:

Eleanor Holmes Norton, the non-voting congressional representative for the District of Columbia, defended the Obama Administration angrily as she declared that Americans have no right to know what goes on in theirgovernment. 

“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 claimed during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing. 

Allow me to make this clear: A Democrat representative told the House Oversight Committee that they have no right to scrutinize government. The committee, as the name would suggest, is responsible for overseeing the federal government as a check against abuses of power.

What Norton seems to have confused is that it is the very principle of scrutiny that defines a government that is equipped with a separation of powers.

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Norton seems to think that when a Republican is in office, he should have no power, but when a democrat, and especially their precious Barack Obama, is in office, the President should have dictatorial powers, and there should be no check and balance against him, or his regulatory agencies, or czars, or executive orders. . .

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