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I just want something simple, like the TRUTH!

So we find ourselves in a new “era of responsibility” as articulated by President Obama.

President Obama says his administration is going to be the most transparent in our nation’s history. According to the Cybercast News Service and a lot of other people now, not one senator will have read the final stimulus spending bill before they vote on it.

I want to share with you a couple quotes from President Obama before this bill was voted on in the House and the Senate.

“All of you are committed to building a more responsible, more accountable government, and part of what that means is making sure that we’re spending precious tax dollars wisely and cutting costs wherever possible. During this period of economic emergency, families are tightening their belts. So should Washington.”

My friends, it doesn’t matter what he says. It’s how he says it. Because this is the direct opposite of what has happened. Now, if I sit here and say, “President Obama is lying,” nobody wants to hear that. They’re going to hate me. They’re going to think I’m nitpicking. They’re going to think I’m a sore loser — which goes to illustrate the state in which we find ourselves, because this is an out-and-out lie.

What has happened is the opposite of responsible. There is no accountability. There is no precious, wise spending of tax dollars here. It’s irresponsible as hell. There are no costs being cut whatsoever — and Washington is doing the opposite of tightening its belt. This is the largest spending increase in one piece of legislation in the history of this country, and there’s no evidence in this country for 80 years that anything like this has ever worked before.

And then Obama said this:

“Those of us who manage the public’s knowledge…”

Remember that?

“Those of us who manage the public’s knowledge will be held to account, to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day, because only then can they restore the vital trust between the people and their government.”

None of this except “manage the public’s knowledge,” is true. That’s exactly what they do. I really never thought of government doing that until Obama came, and that’s exactly what they’re doing, government as an entity that manages the public’s knowledge, and he’s got his willing accomplices in the Media doing just that. They are managing the public’s knowledge, and they are targeting anybody who wants to get the truth out about what this administration’s doing.

Make no mistake: they are targeting and they’re going to make every effort at coming after voices of dissent — and leading the charge to silence voices of dissent will be the Media. They’re excited about it, too.

It’s the First Amendment. The First Amendment is under assault, and the very people who have constitutional mention for whom the First Amendment was largely written — members of the press — are going to eagerly sign up to silence the voices of dissent, to “manage the public’s knowledge.

This is frightening, frightening stuff. In addition to all the lies about accountable government, responsible government, spending precious tax dollars wisely, cutting costs wherever possible. None of this, none of this that Obama said, is happening. None of it.

House of Representatives; Representative David Scott (D-GA) and David Dreier (R-CA) arguing about the written version of the stimulus bill.

SCOTT:

Our economy has leaks and holes in it all throughout. That’s why you’ve got a thousand pages there, because it’s big. Our economy is big. This last November the people of the United States made a decision, and that decision was to put Barack Obama as president, because they wanted a new direction. He has pleaded, he has cajoled, he’s gone all across this country asking for help. I say, Mrs. Speaker, let us give him the help.

DREIER:

We do have a thousand pages here. This was put online after midnight. We all voted in favor of 48 hours. You voted in favor of 48 hours to allow the American people and our colleagues to see this. We all understand the urgency of this matter. Has my colleague read this? Many of us have been trying to go through it since after midnight in the Rules Committee.

TAUSCHER: (bangs gavel)

SCOTT:

I was up until three o’clock this morning reading it —

TAUSCHER:

The gentleman will suspend!

DREIER:

Would the gentleman as an expert address — (crosstalk)

SCOTT:

— just as you have done, Mr. Dreier —

TAUSCHER:

The gentleman will suspend!

SCOTT:

— and we were here debating it yest — just last week.

DREIER:

In two-and-a-half hours you went through a thousand pages?

TAUSCHER: (bangs gavel)

The gentleman will suspend!

That was Ellen Tauscher running the place at the time shutting down the argument there between David Dreier, the Republican; and David Scott, the Democrat from Maryland.

On Fox News Channel’s Happening Now, Jane Skinner was talking to Chris Van Hollen, a Democrat from Maryland. She says,

“Can you guarantee there’s nothing been added back into this bill that will be taken out that will be upsetting or a surprise to anybody?”

VAN HOLLEN:

I, uh — eh — uh — Oh, boy. I — I — I — Around here I — I cannot guarantee that. What I can say is that most of these provisions have been very publicly (pause) vetted. But, y-y-y-you know, I — I — I — I — I’d be hard-pressed to say that there’s nothing in here that would be a surprise.

The suspension of reality continues.

Publicly vetted? None of this has been publicly vetted. What people in this country know about the contents of this bill has come from that media that the Obama Democrats want to shut down.

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