I Won!!!
Posted on 02/14/2009 6:40:20 PM PST by NormsRevenge
If President Obama signs the $787 billion economic stimulus legislation Monday, he’ll again be dodging a campaign pledge he made on transparency.
During the campaign, Obama pledged to post legislation online for five days before signing it. But administration officials have said they don’t have to do that for the stimulus because the pledge applied only to non-emergency legislation.
“This would certainly meet the President's test of emergency legislation,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said in a press conference this week before the bill passed.
A copy of the conference report was posted on the White House website at 2:05 p.m. Friday. Under the campaign pledge, it couldn’t be signed until 2:05 p.m. Wednesday. In his radio address today, Obama said that he will sign the legislation “shortly.” The Associated Press has reported that it could be signed as soon as Monday.
The first bill Obama signed into law, the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, wasn't posted online until after he signed it Jan. 29.
He signed legislation expanding children’s health insurance on Feb. 4 after posting it online Feb. 1.
Democrats have already violated another transparency pledge on the stimulus. The House had voted unanimously earlier this week to have the bill posted online for 48 hours before a vote. But the House voted Friday after waiting less than 15 hours. That brought bitter complaints from Republicans, but also some Democrats.
“The honorable thing to do is to give us the time to see the bill,” said Rep. Charlie Melancon (D-La.), a leader of the centrist Blue Dog Coalition. "When you make commitments you follow through on them."
How convenient.
Just one more lie from the One. We will never have a day when he lives up to his promises or tells the whole truth about anything.
Talk is cheap in politics, it seems.
Unfortunately, newly passed and signed legislation of late is not.
Dodging?
Der Fuhrer hasn’t been very truthful with the people. Is it 01-20-13 yet?
So they are passing laws they haven’t read and refuse to make public until its too late to do anything about it.
Sounds pretty normal for a communist country.
Does the phrase lying sack of Doo-Doo mean anything to anyone?
‘Der Fuhrer hasn’t been very truthful with the people. Is it 01-20-13 yet?”
hadn’t you heard, the next election has been postponed due to the emergency.
For all we know thats in the bill too.
You’re probably right. Until someone can find the time to actually read what is in this porker, we’ll never know.
“During the campaign, Obama pledged to post legislation online for five days before signing it. But administration officials have said they don’t have to do that for the stimulus because the pledge applied only to non-emergency legislation.”
Give me a break. 5 days wouldn’t have made any difference in this kind of bill.
This not an emergency no matter how they spin it, not the kind that couldn’t wait 5 more days.
Just how much more arrogance and dishonesty will come out of this administration?
Whar do they take us for?
Volcanoes, earthquakes,hurricanes, terror attacks,.etc.etc.etc. these things are emergencies that would require imediate action.
Yeah but I bet Helen Thomas will bring this subject up in the next Whitehouse briefing session!!!!!
“Volcanoes, earthquakes,hurricanes, terror attacks,.etc.etc.etc. these things are emergencies that would require imediate action.”
well I’m guessing we’ll be seeing more of at least one of those real soon.
Will a rout of the house of reps in 2010 be considered a terrorist attack?
Remember, I think it was Peter Jennings who reported that the 1994 GOP victory in Congress was a ‘temper tantrum’ by the American people.
BHO is a lying SOB and knows he can get away with it!
It’s not even 02-20-09 yet.
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