’)Oh, look, conservatives are still dumb. Folks like Michelle Malkin and Ed Morissey are hopping mad over the presidential transition website at Change.gov. I’m sure they were similarly outraged back in 2001 at BushCheneyTransition.gov that was soliciting donations for Bush/Cheney. Right?
Right.
Read the comments over at Malkin’s post. Really. These are some lost, lost morons living in dark, apocalyptic fantasies.
They may have a good point, however, about the .gov TLD. The transition team on Obama’s side is technically not an instrument of the government; it’s all private.
Yes, I was then as well. The .gov TLD should not be used by private entities. Also, don’t get me started on why everything isn’t under .usa.gov
Serioously- MM seems to run to her formula of “Oh look at what THEY’RE doing, never mind what Bush did!”
And they are wrong. Transition is governed by the Presidential Transition Act of 1963 and grants the president elect with offices, funding (including for payroll), and COMMUNICATION services. I believe that would elevate the transition to full official government program status.
Idiots.
Let’s see:
Freaking out over something a Democrat does while ignoring that Republicans have done the same thing? Check.
Getting the basic facts wrong? Check.
Treating paranoid fantasies as reality? Check.
Yup. Conservative bloggers have learned nothing from the 2008 election.
What an ass.
Why does the government need to collect e-mails and addresses from citizens in order to share their stories with the President-Elect? What purpose does the OPE have for this information? Are they hoping to build a list to sell to political allies, or perhaps just to telemarketers to help pay off the deficit? Since this is hosted as a government site, I think they need to explain what official use they will make of this information.
More conservative illiteracy — there’s a whole page explaining the site’s privacy policy.
You know, if the conservative bloggers and media take a unified pledge that, if Obama refers to having heard a story from a regular American, they will not scurry around to disprove the existence of the person, the existence of the facts claimed, or the existence of Obama himself. In the absence of such a pledge, it’s a damn good idea for him to be able to verify the information he’s getting. I have no doubt that in the absence of the requirement to put in an address and phone number, anonymous rightwingers would clog the site with fictions.
Toddlers in middle aged bodies
We have nothing remotely credible to bitch about today. Tune in tomorrow when VP Biden might have said something somewhat unintentionally funny, whereupon we will blow it all about of reasonable human proportion.
“Why does the government need to collect e-mails and addresses from citizens in order to share their stories with the President-Elect?”
Hopefully to mobilize the population. I think The new Pres. will need to mobilize people to get health care changes through, for example. The back rooms are littered with self-interested lobbyists who know how to wield daggers.
I love Wingnutistan these days. They still think it’s 2003.