Here's to more transparency...

C-SPAN is the single greatest resource we have for serious discussions on issues and for insight on elected officials and the wheels of government. C-SPAN may also be the only entity in Washington that believes in transparency as something more than just a soundbite, transparency being one of the most overused and least acted upon words by the political class over the last two years.

Now C-SPAN has asked, in a letter to soon-to-be House speaker John Boehner, for permission to increase the number of cameras in the House chamber, allowing for more "reaction shots" of House members. C-SPAN also...

cited a letter that Boehner himself once sent to C-SPAN, in which he supported the network’s request to televise healthcare negotiations. In that letter, he stated his own belief that “every issue of national import should be debated by the people’s elected representatives in full public view.” Boehner has yet to respond to the most recent letter from his newfound pen pal, which was delivered last Tuesday. And considering that similar requests from C-SPAN to former Speaker Newt Gingirch and current Speaker Nancy Pelosi have not been approved, history suggests that Boehner’s House will be as transparent as the ones before it.

 The article in Politico

C-SPAN website

I don't know about you but I'd give up the Housewives to watch members of Congress sleeping, paging through magazines or, hopefully, blowing a gasket in response to pontificating by a Member from the other side of the aisle.

To John Boehner:                       JUST DO IT  

                    
              We're Watching You...