Join Push For Question Time
Posted by: David Segal
in Other
on February 06, 2010 
A burgeoning movement’s afoot to compel Congress and the Prez to enact question time, a la Prime Minister’s Questions in Britain.
We live in a world that increasingly demands more dialogue than monologue. President Obama’s January 29th question-and-answer session with Republican leaders gave the public a remarkable window into the state of our union and governing process. It was riveting and educational. The exchanges were substantive, civil and candid. And in a rare break from our modern politics, sharp differences between elected leaders were on full public display without rancor or ridicule….
America could use more of this — an unfettered and public airing of political differences by our elected representatives. So we call on President Barack Obama and House Minority Leader John Boehner to hold these sessions regularly — and allow them to be broadcast and webcast live and without commercial interruption, sponsorship or intermediaries. We also urge the President and the Republican Senate caucus to follow suit. And we ask the President and the House and Senate caucuses of his own party to consider mounting similar direct question-and-answer sessions. We will ask future Presidents and Congresses to do the same.
Sign the petition here.
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written by right_of_center, February 08, 2010
If you want to work nationally, go work nationally. Please focus on what you have been elected to do. When you get the state out of the downward spiral it is in, then come back and tell us what we should do on the national level.
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President Barack Obama loves to talk to Republicans--that's our whole problem and it's why he's failing America now. We don't need talk. We need results.