March 30, 2009
When President Obama signed the omnibus land conservation bill this afternoon, he again broke his campaign promise to post bills on the Web for five days before adding his signature.The bill passed the House last Wednesday, but the White House did not post the document for comments until Friday, leaving just two weekend days for the public to register comments.
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs addressed the shortened time saying: "Although not perfect, I think the president has made a greater step forward in transparency and feels like we're making progress on ensuring that the American people can see and read what their president is going to sign into law."
Gibbs was later tried for and found guilty of heresy for his statement that Barack Obama is "not perfect."
Seriously, though, I'm starting to wonder whether or not I'll actually ever receive my free unicorn.
Update: I should note that the article goes on to mention that this is the sixth out of nine bills that Obama has signed so far that he's neglected to post online for the promised five days. It also gives the White House's lame excuse that the President is leaving for his tour of Europe and Turkey on Tuesday. Yeah, so? Why not wait until he gets back to sign this? It's not like this was an emergency, and the public would have had extra time to view the bill for even more of that promised transparency.
Why, if I didn't know any better, I might think that he didn't give a shit about keeping his promises.
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But I will tell you what appears to be happening around America these days: People are finally realizing the media's bias is real and it has consequences.
Mark Levin's book is a hit, a big hit, and yet, it's not touted on Minitru*. Tea Parties are getting bigger and they're ignored or attacked by Minitru, Obama's poll numbers are going down, and it's lied about by Minitru. Obama, Minitru and the Dem Cong all attack Rush and he comes out stronger.
Average people are noticing that all those "crazy people" and "stupid people" discounted by Minitru, the ones who were saying all those "crazy" things about Obama were, what's the word.... uhhh.... absolutely correct. Heck, only the craziest ones went far enough. Even I owe a couple apologies to some Ron Paul fans.
Heck, I have a friend who about 4 years ago thought I was a crazy right winger, one step away from Tim McVeigh.
Now? He's quoting Hannity at me, has Levin's book and he even listens to...gasp... Rush Limbaugh, and I only respond to when he starts political conversations, I haven't tried to convert him or anything.
Yup, people are noticing Minitru lies so they're going around them, going to Drudge and talk radio and blogs.
*Minitru: The NYTimesWashPostCNNABCCBSNBCetc.
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