Shining the light on stupidity

There's a simple, important reason why the Obama Administration and the Congress of leftistas have so often passed laws before letting Americans read them. In more than one case, Congress has voted so swiftly to enact legislation entailing thousands of pages that it was physically impossible for any member to have read the bills before voting.

They do this because, if Americans knew what Congress and the president were up to, Congress and the president couldn't get away with it.

For example: The Treasury Department recently ran a 'help wanted' ad for a cartoonist to help add humor to the government's portrayal of its indefensible deficits and corrupt, unconstitutional spending habits. It took a simple link on the Drudge Report (with no further comment) to shame Treasury into canceling that advertisement. Once an idea that stupid is put to into public consciousness, politicians know they'd better end it if they want to get re-elected.

When he was running for office, asking for Americans to vote for him, President Obama vowed to publish all legislation on the White House's Web site for a minimum of five days — so as to allow citizens to review it and make comments — before he would sign anything. What Mr. Obama didn't say was that he had no intention of keeping that vow, or even of pretending to.

The "economic stimulus" bill passed in February is the most egregious example of legislation in the darkness. That bill was thousands of pages long, and it was passed by Congress just a few hours after it was written. Mr. Obama signed it forthwith. Today, Vice President Joe Biden explains the bill's failure by saying "everyone guessed wrong" or everyone "misread the economy." Mr. Obama insists that "we had incomplete information."

And now these same buffoons, the ones who used "incomplete information" to justify tossing a trillion dollars down a stinking pit, are demanding the passage of a massive, game-changing government takeover of the nation's health care system. In the next 14 days.

Their urgency is explained by the upcoming summer congressional recess. If Congressmen have to go back home and visit their constituents, those constituents will demand that the health care takeover be killed.