The newsman and network anchor David Brinkley once related a story about the time he asked Jack Kennedy just how he was going to make the announcement that he was going to make his younger brother Attorney General. Jack thought a minute and then said he was going to pick a night when there was a new moon and then go out into the Rose Garden at around 3 in the morning and whisper
It’s Bobby.
Kennedy was kidding but it seems the Obama administration may have heard that story and taken it to heart. A pledge to post the text of bills on the Internet and give Americans a week to read them has passed through the worm hole of the Obama White House and emerged as a sort of anti-transparency particle whereby even the people voting on the bill don’t get to read it.
Now that the bill has passed both the House and the Senate in their respective versions high school civics tells us that it goes to a conference committee where the two versions are reconciled, then the conference version is passed by each chamber and it goes to the president.
Hah! As Ed Morrissey details in his latest post for Hot Air that may be the way things used to be done but no more. There is too much chance one of those pesky Republicans might see the final version and tell somebody what’s in it before it gets passed and signed into law.
Can’t Have That!
So they’re just going to pass notes back and forth and hope the teacher, in the form of the American Public, doesn’t catch them at it.
HOWEVER… The Nolanimrod has managed to get a look at the sections of the bill as it was being shuttled back and forth between the chambers and I am going to display here, for the first time, the picture of several sections of the bill on their way from the Senate to the House.
Sections of the Health Care Bill on Their Way
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Very good
I have just finished reading ‘Going Rogue’ by Sarah Palin.
Auto Bios are not my usual favorite genre but I believe one should read some of them in order to maintain the balance and for this reason I have read the hot wind by both Clintons and Obama [Dreams], the more modest words by John McCain in the past year, and now Miss Sarah.
She deals frankly with much in American politics including the now “generally accepted that for politicians to lie is OK” and the messy “pork” business.
BTW, they are trying to run her down and the book but she is laughing all the way to the bank. Two million copies now confirmed sold. See:
http://tpmlivewire.talkingpoin.….r-list.php
And it is pretty hard to argue with 293 million Google entries!
I also Blog at in the UK My T and will post this comment there as well.