Private Meetings?

Last Wednesday Fox News host Bill Hemmer was interviewing a Democrat congressman. Hemmer was asking the congressman if he considered the closed door conference committee meeting about national health care breaking Obama's pledge to have the meetings open. Fox News played eight seperate videos of Obama saying C-SPAN would cover any debate on pending legislation. The congressman answered that Obama did not break his promise and the negotiations about the health care plan were the most open debates he had witnessed since coming to Washington.Hemmer then told him many people thought that taking the meetings behind closed doors to finish it was breaking that promise. The congressman replied that most all legislation was finished behind closed doors because there had to be "private" discussions. The congressman was speaking politicalese for secret negotiations, deal making and bribing that is necessary to get bills done. The thing the congressman and his sidekicks fail to understand is this is exactly the thing Americans have grown weary of. If a bill can only garner support through deal making and bribery the American people think the bill is not worth passing. Legislation is either good enough to stand on it's own or it is not. If it is not it should be scrapped and forgotten! The mid term elections are only 10 months away and I believe it is time to send Washington a message. Americans should scrutinize the way their representative conducts business. If they are not above board and out in the open or if it does not benefit the country as a whole it is time to be rid of them. VOTE THE BUMS OUT!