11/17/09

Anything But Open and Transparent

ABC News did an excellent job the other day of reporting the failure of the Obama administration to keep up with its rhetoric on the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, more precisely its use of recovery.gov and its many errors and untruths.
ABC News was able to locate several examples on the government's Web site outlining hundreds of millions of dollars spent and jobs created in Congressional districts that have been misidentified.

For example, recovery.gov says $34 million in stimulus money has been spent in Arizona's 86th congressional district in a project for the Navajo Housing authority, which is actually located in the 1st congressional district.
The whole site is filled with errors as ABC reports. There is no excuse for such incompetence by Team Obama. These are exactly the stories that need to be pointed out and exactly the stories the media was created to cover. If you can't run a website...

*Update:

Associated Press fact checks the phantom district claims.