So, the bill has passed; Obama will sign.
How do you feel about it?
End the Practice of Writing Legislation Behind Closed Doors: As president, Barack Obama will restore the American people's trust in their government by making government more open and transparent. Obama will work to reform congressional rules to require all legislative sessions, including committee mark-ups and conference committees, to be conducted in public. By making these practices public, the American people will be able to hold their leaders accountable for wasteful spending and lawmakers won't be able to slip favors for lobbyists into bills at the last minute.
You know what? I posted this today. TODAY:
http://www.debatepolitics.com/1057923754-post200.html
At that time, on Barack Obama's Change.gov website, this was still visible:
This passage disappeared into the ether . . . today.
I don't know what your "day" is in relation to my "day", as it seems I am in a different time zone.
I seriously do not think that Obama has very much control of Nancy Pelosi and those goons within the Democratic party who have decided to party without the Republicans.
I think Obama needs to seriously do something about this, and save himself some embarrassment; however, I think there is a fear in the administration that it would show a rift in the Democrat party.
I would respect Obama standing up to that slag and the perception of a rift over him simply allowing goonish tactics like what were played here today.
I seriously think Pelosi's head on a pike would be the only satisfactory response.
you would respect it. But the G.O.P would not sit idle and not mistake an opportunity to retake some seats.
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can we please find a way to rid ourselves of Pelosi? She has to be soliciting gay sex somewhere.
She is Obama's Cheney. I had bad feelings when she became speaker and I had worse feelings when Obama won the election and they were mostly over her and Reid. Mainly her.
She's a spoiled little **** and she will ruin this country if she doesn't get rubbed out by a scandal or some other lucky twist of fate like a plane crash.
So, the bill has passed; Obama will sign.
How do you feel about it?
Don't like the bill, LOVE the way it passed.
there is no one to blame for the mess it is going to cause but Obama and the Dems.
Didn't think of it that way, but my guess is when the walls come tumbling down, the press will conveniently forget that the Dems passed this one.
Nary a single liberal has voted in the poll or commented. Interesting...
She's a spoiled little **** and she will ruin this country.
Nary a single liberal has voted in the poll or commented. Interesting...
I find it interesting that people are complaining about not being able to read this bill yet have an opinion on it.
No one said they couldn't read it. Where do you get that from?
There wasn't time to read it thoroughly and debate it before the vote.
Nary a single liberal has voted in the poll or commented. Interesting...
It is pretty impressive how quiet a large number of them have been about this whole thing. Big thanks to those who have participated.