Hypocrisy alert!I'm in favor of the resolution that has been offered requiring representatives to read legislation before it's voted on. That would seem to be an obvious requirement, but more often than not the bills are read, if at all, by some staffer who highlights the important stuff for the congressman. We'd get a lot less spurious legislation if the congressmen were required to read the bills for themselves.
A heretofore "unknown" 2004 interview with Barack Obama by leftwing radio host Randi Rhodes has just emerged. And basically, as you shall hear, Obama is saying do as I say, not as I do. In this case he was referring to quickly forcing legislation through congress. As you can hear in this interview, uncovered by Naked Emporer News, the hypocrisy seems so massive that it is destined to go viral on the Web. It features Randi Rhodes back during her Air America days interviewing then senator-elect Barack Obama on November 22, 2004. And despite the fact that Randi is currently pretty well hidden from public view, you can be sure she will soon be talked about again because of her inadvertent exposure of incredible hypocrisy on the part of Obama. And what was the hypocrisy? His complaint that the Bush administration was rushing legislation through congress without giving the legislators time to read the bills or allowing for much debate.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Obama Decries Rushing Legislation Through Congress Without Sufficient Debate
Not today, of course, when it's his legislation that's being rushed through, but in 2004 when George W. Bush's legislation was being rushed through (from Newsbusters):
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Legislators who can't or won't read every bill they vote on is beyond comprehension. It should be mandatory that they read every bill they vote on and if it's found out they have not read the bill they should be removed from their office. And we wonder why the U.S. is in the mess it's in?
This is typical Obama style.
Surely some individual or group can put up enough money to run this tape at least once a week on every TV network. A memory is a terrible thing to waste!
FYI-legislators almost NEVER read the bills on which they vote. We can only hope an aide has time to read it and whip out a short memo explaining the basics.
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