A Pattern of Transparency

Yesterday, I mentioned John Kerry’s blocking of Jim Demint’s slated fact-finding mission to Honduras, and Chuck Schumer’s move to narrowly circumscribe the Journalist Shield Law to cover only professional journalists, at the behest of the Department of Justice.

Today, there are several things that I would like to add. The first is that the Senate is liable to invoke cloture to force a vote on the health care bill as it stands, without first posting the bill for public view, as was promised by the Obama administration. In a head-assploding explanation of why he doesn’t want to read the too-technical language of the bill:

Trying to pull the wool over our eyes? To sum, the bill is so un-understandable that nobody can understand it, so it shouldn’t even be read. Nevermind that they’d like to see this monstrosity, which they won’t even post in either its plain English or Gibberish forms, they want it to become law.

Meanwhile, McCain introduces an amendment to require that Congress hear testimony from General McChrystal before any Defense Appropriations bill comes to a vote, and, in a straight party-line vote, the Democrats defeat it. Meanwhile, even Emperor Palpatine Helen Thomas is so disgusted at the administration’s evasions regarding a public option, which they now wish to try to sneak in on a state-by-state mandate, that she wants Gibbs to feel guilty.

I seem to recall that during the campaign, Obama promised to have health care debate in Congress covered on C-Span, but then my memory’s notoriously unreliable.

Hey, did you hear that FEMA’s giving ACORN a million dollars to prevent fires? I mean, physical ones?

And in case you’re wondering why some Chicagoans don’t want the Olympics, here’s your chance to find out why.