Posted on 11/09/2009 9:58:16 AM PST by Nachum
There are two ways to view this video of a 2005 floor speech by then-House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, condemning Republican leaders for not allowing members three days to read "a bill of thousands of pages" before voting on it.
The video is posted on Breitbart TV and is well worth watching in the aftermath of Speaker Pelosi's legislative blitzkreig of the past week to gain passage of her version of Obamacare at all costs. It was done with not even a token nod in the direction of allowing the sort of legislative transparency she promised voters during the 2006 campaign enroute to becoming House Speaker.
The most obvious and immediate take on the video is disgust with the unsurpassed hypocriscy of Pelosi in forcing the Obamacare bill through to passage despite its massive size, its gigantic implications for changing the daily lives of every American, and its enormous impact on the financial integrity of the government.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
It’s only the headline of the moment that matters to them. They can have the nice headline about openness, then never worry about it again, because they know the foreign-owned media has their back no matter what.
Another “Dark of Night” “Weekend” slip it past the peons bill from the Communist Party.
it should be three days for every 100 pages.
Pelosi=Enemy. There is no other way to look at it. Someday...
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