It doesn’t get much simpler or more clear-cut than this. During his campaign, President Obama promised that he “will not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House website for five days.”
The so-called “stimulus” bill was passed by the Senate just before midnight on Friday night (after Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-OH, arrived on the publicly-funded private jet Obama sent to fetch him from his mother’s funeral and cast the deciding vote for the package neither he nor a single other member of Congress has read).
President Obama, who has also not read the $787,000,000,000.00 borrow-and-spend bill, has announced that he will sign the debt legislation into law on Tuesday in Denver.
The legislation was posted on WhiteHouse.Gov on Friday afternoon (at 2:05pm EST), but was not passed until that night. So, let’s count the days: Saturday-1. Sunday-2. Monday-3. Signing on Tuesday. That’s three days, not five.
The only possible excuse is that it’s not a “non-emergency bill,” and therefore the timeline promise doesn’t apply. The only problem with that is, if it’s such an emergency that not a day can be lost, why is President Obama vacationing in Chicago this weekend and waiting until he returns to sign it?
You may recall that when the $700,000,000,000.00 TARP legislation was passed last October, it was immediately carried across the street to George W. Bush, who immediately signed it. Bush and Paulson had been pushing that legislation as a “not a moment to lose” emergency, and once it was passed the then-President treated it as such, not letting it gather dust on his desk while he took a leisurely few days off.
President Obama, on the other hand, is dong what he’s done so often already during his brief tenure in office: trying to have it both ways. He spent weeks pushing Congress to pass — without taking the time to read or carefully write — the largest spending bill in human history, declaring there wasn’t a moment to lose, but now that it has passed, he’s letting it sit for three days before signing it (he’s just not taking the full five days he promised before).
Obama is also trying to have it both ways on actually helping the American worker. He has spent weeks claiming that the ongoing job losses in this country would be reversed as soon as he signed this supposedly critical bill into law, yet he is currently allowing those families whose breadwinners have lost their jobs, and who are struggling to live day to day, to continue in that condition while he enjoys a few leisurely days with his family and powerful Chicago Democrat Machine friends. Nice job of feeling the common man’s pain there — let alone actually doing something he’s promised to do to help out.
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Hmmm
tricks Monday, February 16th at 12:56PM EST (link)Likewise, if it wasn’t such an emergency, why couldn’t the Senate have these past 3 days to review the bill before voting if Obama didn’t plan on signing it until at leastTuesday? That review time would’ve really been appreciated by the Senators and the public.
And then Obama goes to Denver to sign it. Publicity stunt anyone? Back to campaign mode. He has figured out as long as he keeps traveling the country giving pretty speeches, his numbers and support stay strong. I’ll be curious to see after 4 years how many miles Obama puts on Air Force One jetting around the country. Funny how he couldn’t make it to any of the ice storm states during their disaster to show support and encouragement but has managed to make it to at least 3 states the past week alone.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
Sherrod Brown
bnb614 Monday, February 16th at 1:03PM EST (link)should thank his lucky stars he isn’t a Big 3 CEO or his trip would have been totally inexcusable. But he believes in global warming so he can fly anywhere with impunity.
Obama will continue his “listen to my words, don’t follow my actions” tour with the media backing in full tow for the entire 4 years.
The only emergency
sdan (Diary) Monday, February 16th at 1:34PM EST (link)was to not let anyone read it until it was already passed. Hopefully there will be some democrats that have second thoughts on voting for something they haven’t read….on second thought there may be no hope for that I was just having a “hope and change” moment. I’m back in the real world again.
Obama makes Bill Clinton blush
NickDeringer (Diary) Monday, February 16th at 2:09PM EST (link)Sadly this is getting to be old news. How long before the MSM gets tired of spinning this guys words into something mimicking the truth.
He’s a fast talking Chicago Politician.
NickDeringer
Double Standards
DefendUSA (Diary) Monday, February 16th at 2:12PM EST (link)SSDD with the left.
Blackfive had a great analogy. If a 1000 page battle plan had been ignored, and the troops were taken into battle, lives lost and equipment lost, how do you think it would be rectified? Well, The General would be fired without question.
Too bad we don’t have the same instant option and that people’s memories tend to fade. Because we have to wait 2 and 4 years for the liars and the cheats to be voted out. The same people forgetting what a loser BHO is, may also be dealing with new trauma, courtesy of Muslim terrorists and a new attack. But I won’t say I told you so. ONE.TERM.
*starred thought*
To be a leader is to do the uncomfortable thing. Man up, Mr. President.
Keeping The Air Sweet.
melpol Monday, February 16th at 2:51PM EST (link)We are our brothers keepers whether we like it or not. Every nation provides financial and medical aid for those that can not or will not help themselves. Seeing lazy neighbors spend most of their time making love while smoking dope angers most of us. But it is wrong to pray that government checks to misfits and dead beats were ended. If that happened the stench of millions of starved and homeless corpses would cause people to vomit. Lets give them the checks and keep the air smelling sweet.