Another rough day for transparency at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Note to the White House: you know you're in trouble when you've lost Gloria Borger.

Meanwhile, Robert Gibbs got testy with reporters today who pressed him on Obama's promise to televise health care negotiations on C-SPAN. Gibbs flatly refused to answer the question and referred reporters to his response yesterday - before adding that the President is trying to get a bill on his desk "as quickly as possible."

For the record, Gibbs' non-responsive response yesterday to the question of whether Obama was meeting the standard of transparency he promised during the campaign was, "I do not believe the American people have lacked for information on what's in these bills - the political and policy arguments around different people's positions - I think that's been well documented."

So the question about Obama's C-SPAN promise remains unanswered. And Gibbs' response yesterday brings up a new question for the White House: if the American people aren't lacking any information about the content of the health care legislation, why is the President rushing through closed-door meetings to pass a piece of legislation on a party-line vote that a majority of the country disapproves of?

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