From RIGHTWINGSPARKLE comes evidence of Democrats' determination to thwart the transparency we were promised by Teh One:
Democratic staffers released the final version of the stimulus bill at about 11 p.m. last 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. That move to conceal the bill’s provisions had not been remedied this morning at the time of publication of this article.
The bill contained literally hundreds of earmarks and abuses of power (Rightwingsparkle highlights just one), and it's obvious Democrats didn't want you to know what was in the bill before the vote. After all, thousands of people had e-mailed, called, and written their Congress critters asking them to vote "no" on this monstrosity. Think what would happen if people actually could find what was in the bill!
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