getting railed

Simply put, Democrats lie:

“The American people have a right to know what’s in this bill,” Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind) told HUMAN EVENTS after the press conference. “Every member of Congress — Republicans and Democrats — voted to post this bill on the internet for 48 hours, 48 hours ago. We’ll see if the Democrats keep their word.”

Actually — as of 5:15 pm, the Democrats had broken their word. The stimulus bill — which we still haven’t seen — will be released late tonight and will be brought up on the House floor at 9 am tomorrow.

A later update indicated:

The Democrats finally made the bill’s language available around 11 p.m. Thursday, approximately 10 hours before members meet Friday to consider the bill and 38 hours short of the time promised Americans to review the bill.

Needless to say, 10 hours is not equal to, nor equivalent to, 48 hours.
But, wait, there is more:

The total size of the four major files is over 100MB, and consists of 1419 pages. Three of the four files are huge “scanned” PDFs, meaning they were created by printing the original document and then scanning it in again — and therefore contain no real “text” that can be easily searched.

Now, I can guaranfrakingtee you that, somewhere, there is an electronic version of this disastrous “stimulus” bill – I sincerely doubt the entire thing was drafted on a typewriter (though it might seem as though it was the outcome of the mythic “(thousand monkeys) + (thousand keyboards)” experiment). As such, the Democrats’ decision to release this document as a rescanned (and thus unsearchable) image is simply obfuscation, intentional inconvenience, and nothing less than an intentional attempt to keep people from being able to adequately and effectively examine, read, and comprehend this disaster until it is already too late. The folks at ReadTheStimulus.org hope to have a searchable version up sometime today, but they are not holding out a whole lot of hope.
And, Jesus H. Christ on a pogo stick, how much easier and cheaper would it have been to post up the original files, rather than have some poor lackey scan one thousand, four hundred, nineteen pages?! If you ever wanted a prime example of the wastes D.C. generates, here you go.
Even worse, consider this quote from the first article:

The following statement was released by Majority Leader Steny Hoyer at 4:57 p.m.:

“The House is scheduled to meet at 9:00 a.m. tomorrow and is expected to proceed directly to consideration of the American Recovery and Reinvestment conference report. The conference report text will be filed this evening, giving members enough time to review the conference report before voting on it tomorrow afternoon.”

And then there is this quote from at least one Democrat who has enough spine to admit the truth:

Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) predicted on Thursday that none of his Senate colleagues would “have the chance” to read the entire final version of the $790-billion stimulus bill before the bill comes up for a final vote in Congress.

Great, so how about you expand your nascent spine into a full-fledge version, stand up to the idiots in charge of your party, and demand sufficient time for all interested parties (the American public included) to adequately read through this monstrosity? Or is asking you to do your job just too much?
Do the rest of the Democrats honestly believe that 15ish hours is sufficient time to read one thousand, four hundred, nineteen pages? How fast do you read, Representative Hoyer? Do you even know what you are calling a vote on? Did anyone in the House know what they were voting on (now that it has passed there)? Does anyone in the Senate know what they are voting on?
Even worse, do the self-serving scum in Washington even know what their constituents want? What happened to the whole concept of “representation”, folks? I guess the concept of providing fair, accurate, and honest representation of your constituents goes right out the window when you have a trip to take. This is nothing short of a complete and utter travesty of the American governmental system, and we are all going to suffer for it.
But worse, at this point, there is next to nothing we can do to stop it. Representatives and Senators alike are only in Washington any more to continue being in Washington – their power is entirely self-serving, and they will do whatever is necessary to remain in office. Worse, their constituents ahve next to no memory – next election cycle, when the morons who enacted this doomed “stimulus” bill go up for election, they will promise the world, and the voters will believe them. How much longer can the America we know and love exist when its government exploits it, and its people do not care?