Compare and Contrast

Here is an excerpt from President Obama's weekly address today. It reinforces a very strange concept into the national dialogue...accountability. Very strange indeed! You can view the entire address over at Americablog.

Now, some fear we won’t be able to effectively implement a plan of this size and scope, and I understand their skepticism. Washington hasn’t set a very good example in recent years. And with so much on the line, it’s time to begin doing things differently.

That’s why our goal must be to spend these precious dollars with unprecedented accountability, responsibility, and transparency. I’ve tasked my cabinet and staff to set up the kind of management, oversight, and disclosure that will help ensure that, and I will challenge state and local governments to do the same.

Once the plan is put into action, a new website – Recovery.gov – will allow any American to watch where the money goes and weigh in with comments and questions – and I encourage every American to do so. Ultimately, this is your money, and you deserve to know where it’s going and how it’s spent.

This historic step won’t be the end of what we do to turn our economy around, but the beginning. The problems that led us into this crisis are deep and widespread. Our response must be equal to the task.

Oh! and here is the contrast from Michael Steele, the newly elected head of the RNC talking with uber ass Glenn Beck of Faux News about Republican credibility.

"You have absolutely no reason, none, to trust our word or our actions at this point."

Now that's a mouthful.