Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Read the stimulus bill

Our good friend sent us this link (Read the Stimulus).

At least two promises are being broken. Congress passed a resolution last week that they would not vote on the bill until the full final text had been available for 48 hours--they voted less than 24 hours after the bill cleared committee. Coming up one vote short in the Senate, President Obama sent a plane to retrieve an Ohio senator who had rushed home because his mother died. If they had waited the 48 hours they set for themselves, this would not have been necessary (and how much did that cost?).

Also being broken (again): BO promised that he would not sign any legislation without providing it on the White House web site for 5 days. He already broke that promise with the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, signing it hours after it passed Congress. He will be signing the stimulus bill only 3.5 days after it squeeked through Congress late Friday night.

What really pisses me off, though, on top of everything, is that every single MOC who voted for this bill has not read it. They could not possibly have read the final bill before they voted on it. It should be a basic responsibility of every MOC to at least read a bill before they vote on it.

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