Once again, President Obama’s promise of transparency is less than meets the eye:
The $500 billion omnibus spending bill to fund the most of federal government for the rest of the year will be debated in the House this week. And it has now finally been posted online.
It’s a PDF of scanned pages, meaning it can’t be searched or parsed in any other way. All 1,133 pages of it. Same with the 1,845-page explanatory statement.
That’s placing form over substance, putting a bill online in a useless format.
So, unless you’re willing to sit down and read nearly 3,000 pages, good luck finding out anything of substance about the bill.
H/T: Jason Pye
I can’t remember if I have posted in comments here before. I casually read a view political blogs.
But, I am going to go on record and say that this post, and the one linked to most likely, is yet another lazy, or incompetent, or malicious attempt to denigrate the President.
If you took an honest look at the PDF and tried a ctrl-F in Adobe Reader you would find that basic search DOES work…I spot check a couple of terms on a couple of posted PDFs and found that they worked just fine.
This is the 2nd r 3rd time I have found someone parroting the claims that President Obama/Congress are hiding something by posting PDFs. I just wonder, is it laziness and not wanting to confirm the claim? Or is it incompetence in understanding how PDFs can work? Or is it pure-T spitefullness to express utter disdain for the administration?