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February 15, 2009
Obamunist "Transparency"
This gives an idea of how determined Democrats were to ram through the obscene Porkzilla package before anyone could find out what was in it:
Democratic staffers released the final version of the stimulus bill at about 11 p.m. [Thursday] night after delaying the release for hours to put it into a format which people cannot "search" on their home computers.
Instead of publishing the bill as a regular internet document -- which people can search by "key words" and otherwise, the Dems took hours to convert the final bill from the regular searchable format into "pdf" files, which can be read but not searched.
Three of the four .pdf files had no text embedded, just images of the text, which did not permit text searches of the bill.
Dems knew that no one would have time to wade through over 1,000 pages of nearly unintelligible bureaucratese in time for the vote on Friday. They may as well have released the bill in Sanskrit.
On a tip from Air2air.
Posted by Van Helsing at February 15, 2009 10:49 AM
Comments
I can't say I'm surprised.
Posted by: draen at February 15, 2009 11:06 AM
Thanks for nothing, ASSHOLES!
Posted by: Sage at February 15, 2009 11:49 AM
Actually, you can search PDFs, including the version of the bill linked in the article. Delaying release until 11 pm is a legitimate squawk (who could digest a 1000+ page bill between 11 pm and the vote the following morning?), but the PDF aspect is not.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at February 15, 2009 12:27 PM
Hah. No Republican wants to be that last vote.
The Dear Leader can't get his bipartisanship.
Posted by: Scaramouche at February 15, 2009 1:31 PM
BO and his masters kept saying that this INSULT was so vital that they HAD to rush it through a vote, yet it's not so important that President BO couldn't delay his weekend vacation one day to SIGN the damn thing! For that matter, if it WAS so important and there IS such a grave "emergency", why couldn't a messenger TAKE IT TO HIM for signing?
Maybe there really isn't any hurry?
Posted by: KHarn at February 15, 2009 1:55 PM
I read the article, I went to the appropriations website, where I had to search for the text of the bill. Thanks for providing little to no help humanevents.com and moonbattery.com in finding WHICH file you are actually trying to say something about!
The bill comes in two parts, I searched it, text comes up. I have no idea what you or humanevents is even trying to indicate on that.
Yes, I think it would be prudent and wise to delay the vote a bit so that congress and staffers and aids could read it and analyze the changes before a vote comes up.
humanevents pasted up that "bureaucratese" with little if any expository information to support the spin they put on it. To me it says that you must request the funds, and if you request is spend it in the time period. I think clarifying how the legislature can independently request the funds is fine as well and I fail to see some kind of states rights issue that violates the constitution, it may be there but I can hardly see it without some more study and references.
pdf is searchable, on home computers, with free software, I just do not see where most of the quotes even show an understanding of that. "regular internet document" just screams basic ignorance of the internet and computer documents.
Sorry. Looks like a farce to this human observer.
Posted by: fine ahht at February 15, 2009 6:12 PM
FINE AHHT
Can you speak "lawyer"? About 99% of the US population can't. I doubt that any lawyer could decode this criminal act overnight and then report to work to hear boring speaches and vote intelligently on it.
PS:
"States Rights" died with the CSA, the Federal Government has full control now. Before Lincoln took office in 1861, the STATES had the final say in everything. Now, it's the Supreme Court that makes laws.
Thanks a hell of a lot, LIBERALS.
Posted by: KHarn at February 15, 2009 7:44 PM
Some people arent paying attention to the last section of the except.
"Three of the four .pdf files had no text embedded, just images of the text, which did not permit text searches of the bill. "
While Pdf files are searchable, if you simply embed images of text and not text itself, its NOT searchable. Its like embedding a photocopy of a document - you cant search the image. The original .pdf format released before the vote 75% was NOT searchable. Since then it has been made 100% searchable. The point being they should have given sufficient time for the pdf files to be 100% searchable. The reason they didnt is obvious.
Posted by: Name at February 16, 2009 6:33 AM
Name, how dare you insert facts into this argument??? You'll make Fine Ahht have to think really hard for ways to defend this.
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