John Boehner Denies C-SPAN Request for Increased Coverage of House

What are they hiding or hiding from. The truth?

We are a media age and they are elected officials. Republican or Democrat we as voters put them there. Now I don't know about any of the rest of you. But any job I've ever held it was possible for my supervisor to randomly appear at my job site. I think cameras should be allowed at all times so that we the people who vote to put them into office, pay taxes to support their salary have every right to see just what they are doing to earn our vote and money every step of the way and with every vote on the floor. I don't care what your party is I think it should be acceptable by all.

Once again the Liberals on this board have not only missed the point of the exercise but have also, like the vaunted genius of the Left Chris Matthews, fabricated a narrative having nothing to do with what is in evidence. Try to follow the boucing ball:

C-Span routinely requests this extra freedom of camera coverage for it's own purposes. The camera coverage would simply, as described in the article, allow for reaction shots to rhetoric and for wider chamber shots showing the activity or lack of activity of members of either party. Which gains us what exactly?

The request doesn't affect deliberations or 'secret' deals, etc. so loved by the paranoid. It is simply for more cult of personality, he-said/she-said nonsense which would no doubt make its way to the Mainstream Media on a nightly and of course, pre-selected basis. Let's see ... NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, et al, would somehow magically show the same clips while FOX would show not only what the others showed but something representing another perspective. Gee, what a change that would be from what we have now.

The complete lack of intellectual quality from the Left is always expected but is also reaching breathtaking proportions lately. Yet another proof that having the highest dollar spent per student ratio of all western countries yields us nothing but more of the same. This is what government does best.

Dems ran on transparency that never happened while they ran America's House for years. Interesting but unsurprising we don't hear CNN whining about that promised transparency or Pelosi for not allowing them more access.

So much for "transparency" from the Republicans........... let's see...they claim JOBs is their #1 priority........so far they have tried to overturn the Healthcare Reform Act and failed...no new jobs there.........and then the next great law for them was on ANOTHER anti abortion funding measure that ALSO has no bearing on the fact it is ALREADY illegal to use federal funds for abortion....... jobs created so far? ZERO...

Why now? Where was this "demand" during the health care debate? It's only now becasue the Republicans are in control of the house. Why not ask the same of the senate? Maybe because the democrats still control the senate (until 2012).

Apparently the republicans don't want people to see them cutting, slashing and repealing programs for the middle class while giving more huge tax cuts to the wealthy.

I find it entertaining reading these posts with Democrats blaming Republicans for all the problenms and vice-versa. When are you going to realize we have to be AMERICANS first,rather than label ourselves as a Party member. You will notice the article says the same request has been turned down in the past by Gingrich(R) and Pelosi(D).As you can see none of these lying,self-serving,thieving weasels give a crap about the peoples requests for transparancy. None of them want a true wide shot of the chambers showing only a handful of Representatives there at any given time while the rest are out golfing ,having lunch with the Lobbiests,or on a taxpayer paid "fact finding mission" to ::: (fill in the blank):: warm counntry during the winter. We cleaned out a lot of the deadwood last election and we need to do the same each election until we get performance. Be an INDEPENDENT AMERICAN!!!

The Republicans promised government responsive to the people. Now that they were elected they think we will have forgotten their promises. Come 2012 the American public will likely be ready to show them the exit door and until we elect responsible representatives, it's going to be a continuous revolving door.

When John Boehner campaigned, it was all about the House of Representatives belonging to the People. Now that Boehner has a two-year lease occupying the office of the Speaker, he wants to limit public access to the "People's House". Clearly he and the new Republican majority didn't mean what they said when they campaigned to be elected. In reality, they really don't want their constituents too close or to know too much about what they are doing or what they're not doing.