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| Obama Breaks Sunlight Promise |
| 2009-07-12 |
| The story in the NYT titled "White House Changes the Terms of a Campaign Pledge About Posting Bills Online," was about the White House effort to walk back from President Obama's campaign pledge to post bills he receives for five days before signing them. When the New York Times published the story, five bills had been presented to the president and were awaiting his signature. Four more were presented to him after the story's publication. All nine are now law. For the record, here are the pieces of legislation signed by the president so far: blogger then notes each of the 40 laws signed by Obama of which only 1 was posted for 5 days and most of which were not posted at all |
| Posted by:lord garth |
| #14 Post the damn thing 5 days before CONGRESS votes on it. No more last-minute ram-through bills like the "Stimuls" bill and that godawful Cap and Tax bill. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2009-07-12 17:12 |
| #13 Good clarification in #10, Alaska Paul. I yield me to your logic. :-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-07-12 15:39 |
| #12 Definitions: Millisecond - one one-thousandth of a second Microsecond - one one-millionth of a second Nanosecond - one billionth of a second Femtosecond - 10-15 seconds Obama Campaign Promise - valid for less than a femtosecond |
| Posted by: DMFD 2009-07-12 14:27 |
| #11 Political promises are bugs of the ephemeroptera order like the mayfly: Any of various fragile winged insects of the order Ephemeroptera that develop from aquatic nymphs and live in the adult stage no longer than a few days. Also called dayfly, shadfly. |
| Posted by: Willy 2009-07-12 13:29 |
| #10 The bills are already passed by both the House and the Senate when they go on line for five days. They are done. The people go thumbs up or down by email, phone call, etc. The president signs or vetos. There is no place to modify the bills at that time. The bills need to go on line as soon as they are introduced. Backroom deals pervert the process. Maybe a lot more legislation will die then, which is not necessarily a bad thing. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2009-07-12 13:24 |
| #9 Smoke and mirrors/bait and switch. This will never ever happen because too many high placed Dems would be cupable to any "crime" and would have to be named co-defendants. They are trying to distract us while they pass socialista agenda, DON'T BE FOOLED! |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2009-07-12 11:09 |
| #8 Every promise Barack Obama makes has an expiration date. Every single one. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2009-07-12 10:53 |
| #7 Speaking of Zero's efforts at "transparency", which like all of his actions, are misdirection and distortions of his true intent, I had a chance to see a video clip last night by Lou Dobbs of CNN, on the pending immigration legislation. The content was beyond shocking, with provisions like permanent status within 24 hours or registration, perpetual temporary visa's, forgiveness of all tax arrears, right to government counsel, immediate access to a wide array of government program, etc. It was literally the most outrageous thing I ever read, utterly infuriating. Several thoughts came to mind: 1. the outrangeousness of some of the provisions was clearly intended for compromise 2. they are pushing the bill quickly becasue they are seeing the catastrophic collapse of their polling numbers and want to get this through before campaigning and buying votes next year, 3. If they get this through, the bill allow may create 5-8 million new democratic voters, locking in one party rule and creating a Stalinist socialist command-economy state for decades 4. MOST IMPORTANTLY, misdirection, proposing a rage-making, blood-boiling disater that sucks all of the attention of the honest media and Conservatives in the nation, ALLOWING cap and trade to float through, giving them a cash cow forever!!!!!! I pray that my cynicism is misdirected, but this neocommunist is taking my country places I never imagined it would go, and at breakneck speed. If we don't stop it, my grandchildren's future is diminished enormously, and my lifetime of playing my the rules and resultant modest prosperity will evaporate through confiscatory taxes and monitized debt. To the barricades my friends, our nation is in grave peril! |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2009-07-12 10:20 |
| #6 WTF good is it to post a bill for 5 days before it is signed by the President?????? On-line? As soon as a bill would be posted, interesting individuals on both sides would start examining it, and the problems as defined by both left and right would quickly be revealed and trumpeted. Look at the response to the Texas Air National Guard claim in 2004, and to the stimulus and health care bills this year. Both health care and cap'n'trade have been shelved until at least September in response to outcry from both sides about the details. That's exactly why the White House has not acted on President Obama's campaign rhetoric. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-07-12 10:02 |
| #5 how about requiring each Rep and Senator to read the bills before they vote on em? That transgression alone should get them voted out of office. Bastards |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-07-12 08:11 |
| #4 I think the content is less significant than the source. Is another MSM outlet turning on The One? Nothing personal, of course - just to sell papers. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2009-07-12 07:50 |
| #3 Don't ask... |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-07-12 03:16 |
| #2 WTF good is it to post a bill for 5 days before it is signed by the President?????? How about some quality visiting time in the House and Senate, plus some public hearings that give us time to examine the merits of the bill? Or do it to at least make us think that we have congresspeople that listen to us. /WTF outrage episode no. 7734 |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2009-07-12 03:05 |
| #1 You mean Obama is a liar? I'm shocked! |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2009-07-12 01:13 |