Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice…Barack Obama and the Democrats’ promises to make pending legislation has not only been “non-transparent”, transparency has come to equal an outright LIE in this administration. Obama’s just announced his “fiscal responsibility summit” where he’s going to gut our military and place enormous chains on businesses via tax raises.

Now, Congress is ready to push through another giant spending bill. This colossal bill encompasses the remaining nine appropriations bills for fiscal year 2009 sloughed off by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). They held off on this one so Porkulus could get through; they thought it wouldn’t go down too well at the same time as the spending bill. Although Pelosi and the gang have promised to give adequate time to review this one, they haven’t released the text yet. Dejavu all over again. As was the case with Porkulus, Democrats appear determined to keep this massive spending bill under wraps, too, so the American people won’t know what’s in it, and Republicans will not have time to read what has historically been a bill literally thousands of pages in length.

House and Senate Democrat apparatchiki appear unconcerned with voting on bills that their Dear Leaders have not allowed them time to read. Republicans are, however, troubled by this tyrannical behavior, as they have not even been consulted, much less informed, of the floor schedule for the omnibus bill, nor have they been told when they may be allowed to see the thousands of pages contained in these nine remaining spending bills.

House minority leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) called upon Pelosi Thursday to release the voluminous spending bill online without delay, saying:

“If Democratic leaders plan to schedule a vote on the half-trillion dollar omnibus spending bill next week, they should post the legislation online immediately so the American people have adequate time to read the measure and understand what is in it. My colleagues in the Republican leadership and I made this request two weeks ago, and to date, our request has gone unanswered. Time is running short, and American taxpayers deserve to know how their hard-earned tax dollars will be used under this legislation.”

Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), the House Republican Conference chairman, joined Boehner in asking again, apparently in vain, for an OPEN process from the secretive Democrat leadership this time around. Pence protested:

“More than two weeks ago, House Republicans called on Speaker Pelosi to post online the text of the upcoming half-trillion dollar ‘omnibus’ spending bill, bringing it out of the shadows and before the American people. So far, that call has gone unanswered. Democrats continue to spend the people’s money in secret. I renew my call for Speaker Pelosi and Chairman Obey to immediately post the text of this bill online, and allow the American people an opportunity to see how their tax dollars are being spent. As we recently learned, legislation negotiated in secret produces bad public policy. This can be avoided. We need to reopen the appropriations process to the American public.”

You know the drill. It’s time AGAIN to contact your Congressmen and leaders of the Democrat Party. Click the link to easily find and contact them. Tell them you DEMAND the transparency Obama lied about, and that we reject with protest the escalating disenfranchisement of the American people. Crash their email servers and fill up the voicemail boxes. Do it today…this is CERTAIN to be a replay of the Porkulus push-through before anyone in Congress had a chance to read it. Bury them before they bury us in unread paper again.

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