Less than 48 hours after Democrats in the House of Representatives passed their government-run health care bill, President Obama this morning signed it into law.<\/p>\n
In doing so, the president violated yet another promise he made to the American people.\u00a0 In fact, the \u201cethics\u201d page<\/a> of Obama\u2019s \u201cOrganizing for America\u201d website still reads:<\/p>\n Sunlight Before Signing:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Too often bills are rushed through Congress and to the president before the public has the opportunity to review them.\u00a0 As president, Obama 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.<\/strong>\u201d [emphasis added]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Then again, the president has reneged<\/a> on that specific promise on at least 32 occasions prior to today.\u00a0 At this point, why even bother counting?\u00a0<\/p>\n H\/T:\u00a0 ATR’s Center for Fiscal Accountability<\/a> and Real Clear Politics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Less than 48 hours after Democrats in the House of Representatives passed their government-run health care bill, President Obama this morning signed it into law. In doing so, the president violated yet another promise he made to the American people.\u00a0 In fact, the \u201cethics\u201d page of Obama\u2019s \u201cOrganizing for America\u201d website still reads: Sunlight Before […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[988,949,12,14],"class_list":["post-4376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-broken-promises","tag-ethics","tag-health-care","tag-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4378,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376\/revisions\/4378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}