Dems Break Promise: Stimulus Bill NOT Available Online for 48 Hours Before Vote

For eight years, we heard the Democrats bitch and moan about the Bush administration's abuse of power.

I don't recall the Republicans doing anything remotely like what the Dems are trying to pull.

They are abusing their power. They've broken promises to the American people.

It's disgraceful.

From Human Events:

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.

...“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. The stimulus bill -- which we still haven’t seen -- will be released late tonight and will be brought up on the House floor at 9 am tomorrow.

The following statement was released by Majority Leader Steny Hoyer at 4:57 p.m.:

"The House is scheduled to meet at 9:00 a.m. tomorrow and is expected to proceed directly to consideration of the American Recovery and Reinvestment conference report. The conference report text will be filed this evening, giving members enough time to review the conference report before voting on it tomorrow afternoon."

This is so slimy. The Democrats are so slimy.

Transparency? What a crock!

The Dems should be ashamed of themselves.

Obama's "there are no red states or blue states" rhetoric was a sham. He's no uniter. He's not healing the nation's wounds. His rhetoric is empty, worthless.

Human Events has this update:

UPDATE: The Democrats finally made the bill's language available around 11 p.m. Thursday, approximately 10 hours before members meet Friday to consider the bill and 38 hours short of the time promised Americans to review the bill.

Liars.

This is truly a disgrace.

The Democrats should not be allowed to get away with this. How can Obama permit it? Wouldn't it be wise for him to pressure the Dems to keep their word to the American people?

Talk about overreaching!

Supposedly, the Dems were going to be so careful about that, no overreaching. They have failed miserably.

Obama has been president for just three and a half weeks, and he's already defined himself as a leader.

He can't be trusted.