he's well into breaking every campaign promise, like the one about the public would have 5 days to review any new bills or spending, everything out in the open he said.....heck even the house and senate couldn't read it.....change we can believe in.....
Not one member of Congress read Obama's bailout boondoggle
February 15, 10:14 AM
by Dan Spencer,
Right Side Politics Examiner
The Democrats rushed the so-called "stimulus" bill thorough Congress so quickly that not one single member had a chance to read the 1,000 odd page, bailout boondoggle:
“If all of that wasn’t enough, here I have, 1,100 pages, not one member of this body has read. Not one. There may be a staffer in the appropriations committee that read all of this last night. I don’t know how you can read 1,100 pages between midnight and now. Not one member’s read this. What happened to the promise that we’re going to let the American people see what’s in this bill 48 hours? No - we don’t have time to do that." -- House Republican Leader John Boehner
Boehner had a lot more to say in opposition to Democrats’ “stimulus” legislation and in support of the House GOP’s economic recovery plan, which will create twice as many jobs as the Democrats’ bill at half the cost.
“Mr. Speaker, my colleagues, the American economy needs help. Our neighbors, our friends, our constituents, they’re hurting and there’s not a member in this body on either side of the aisle that doesn’t understand that. And I think everyone in this chamber on both sides of the aisle understands that Congress needs to act and act now to help American families and small businesses and help bring confidence back into our economy.
“The question is how do you do that? The President, when he outlined his desires for this bill, summed it up simply when he said this bill needs to be about jobs. I don’t think there is anybody in this chamber agrees that this bill needs to be about jobs, preserving jobs in America, helping to create new jobs and helping to get our economy rolling again. But a bill that was supposed to be about jobs, jobs, jobs has turned into a bill that is all about spending, spending and spending. This is disappointing.
“The American people expect more of us. They expect to have something that’s going to work for them - and my opposition to this bill isn’t the fact that we’re doing a bill, we need to act. But how? When you look at some of the spending in this bill, it will do nothing about creating jobs in America.
“But our ideas weren’t considered. We weren’t allowed in the room. We weren’t allowed to participate at all. And all the talk about bipartisanship that we have heard over the last several months went down the drain.
You can watch Boehner's entire speech here.
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