Yaaawn…some day this won’t be routine:
In a press conference Thursday, the House Republican leadership spoke candidly about being kept out of the House-Senate conference on the Obama-Pelosi-Reid so-called “economic stimulus” bill. They confirmed they had not yet seen the text of the bill as of 4 p.m.
Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) said he was unsure how many Democrats would vote with Republicans again on this bill but that he thought Republicans “may get a few” Democrats to side with them. The fact that the Demos have now broken their promise to have the public able to see the bill for 48 hours may drive more Dems into the Republican camp.
“[I] don’t know, ‘cause they haven’t seen the bill either,” Boehner said.
“The American people have a right to know what’s in this bill,” Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind) told HUMAN EVENTS after the press conference. “Every member of Congress — Republicans and Democrats — voted to post this bill on the internet for 48 hours, 48 hours ago. We’ll see if the Democrats keep their word.”
Actually — as of 5:15 pm, the Democrats had broken their word.
One wonders why Democrats even bother making promises – everyone just has to know by now that anything a Democrat says is merely for temporary expediency and the actual event will be some sort of corrupt, screw-the-people boondoggle designed to enhance the power and wealth of senior Democrats. But they keep at it, and they keep breaking their promises.
UPDATE: Now that the Democrats have graciously placed the bill on the House website, lets see how they are going to keep things above-board for us:
SEC. 1221. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE ACCOUNTABILITY AND TRANSPARENCY BOARD.
There is established a board to be known as the `Recovery Act Accountability and Transparency Board’ (hereafter in this subtitle referred to as the `Board’) to coordinate and conduct oversight of Federal spending under this Act to prevent waste, fraud, and abuse.
SEC. 1222. COMPOSITION OF BOARD.
(a) Membership- The Board shall be composed of seven members as follows:
(1) The Chief Performance Officer of the President, who shall chair the Board.
(2) Six members designated by the President from the inspectors general and deputy secretaries of the Departments of Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Transportation, and other Federal departments and agencies to which funds are made available in this Act.
(b) Terms- Each member of the Board shall serve for a term to be determined by the President.
The President will have his guy running a board staffed by more of the President’s guys to keep an eye on what the President’s guys are doing. Yeah, I’m confident – feel absolutely certain that these watchdogs will keep close tabs on how the people’s money is spent.
And we get this all for a measly $14,000,000.00….
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