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President Obama, Where Are Those C-SPAN Cameras?

If I had been at the White House daily press briefing on Thursday, I would have asked an obvious question: Robert, The New York Times reports that the White House has cut a behind-the-scenes deal with drug industry lobbyists to prevent Congress from squeezing more than $80 billion in cost savings from Big Pharma. Where were the television cameras when White House aides were working out this agreement with the lobbyists? Flash-back to the 2008 campaign trail: Then-candidate Barack Obama promised a new level of transparency in government -- particularly concerning the sausage-making that would ...

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