Will President Obama Keep His Word on ‘Stimulus’ Transparency, or Was That Just Another ‘Ethics’ Lie?


We’ve already seen House Democrats unanimously approve, and then completely ignore, a resolution calling for the $800 billion so-called “stimulus” bill to be made available in final form to the American public for 48 hours before a final vote was taken on it. The American people ended up getting no time, and Congress itself only got ten hours — from 11pm Thursday night, when the conference report was released, until 9am, when floor action commenced — to review the 1,073-page final document.

Now, the ball of “keeping your word on transparency” is in President Obama’s court. During his campaign, Obama promised that he “will not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House website for five days.”

PolitiFact.com, which is keeping track of Obama’s action on over 500 campaign promises, has already moved this one to the “promise broken” column because, well, he directly violated that claim on the first two bills he signed after taking office.

Here’s another chance to live up to your word, President Obama. How about it? Do you have a shred of integrity in your body somewhere?