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Yesterday, the House Oversight and Government Reform committee held a hearing on the implementation of the Recovery Act, also known as the stimulus. Republican members invited former GOP Majority Leader Dick Armey, who now leads the corporate front group FreedomWorks, to testify as their expert witness. After listening to Armey argue at length about the merits of even having any government intervention in the economy, Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) asked him if he supported the unemployment compensation provisions of the bill. Armey said he might, but conceded that he had not read that portion of the bill. Van Hollen then extracted a confession that Armey had not even read the bill at all, even though he was appearing as an expert and repeatedly goes before the press to criticize the stimulus:
VAN HOLLEN: Let me ask you think. You keep saying if there were, did you read the Economic Recovery bill?
ARMEY: No I didnt. I had no reason to read it, I wasnt voting on it.
VAN HOLLEN: Youre commenting on it an awful lot, both here and in the press, about the Economic Recovery bill. We ask members of Congress to read it when they vote on it and are considering it. Youve said a lot about it, so Im a little surprised that you have not read it. [...] It seems to me we owe it to people we are communicating with we have an understanding an read the information.
Ironically, as part of an effort to obstruct and derail the bill, Armey launched an online petition called ReadTheStimulus.org.
Armey actually worked as a lobbyist to help businesses gain from the stimulus. According to disclosures, he was paid to lobby on behalf of Cape Wind Associates and the Medicines Company on the stimulus. His son, Scott Armey, who runs his own lobbying shop, has also worked with businesses to gain stimulus funds.
So, it is now a-okay for the rest of them to never read another bill ever again.
Gotcha.
well, when you make it to the 8th grade, you begin to lose interest in that, "They did it too" mentality. Along with that, "Look what you made me do" condition as well.So, it is now a-okay for the rest of them to never read another bill ever again.
Gotcha.
Not at all. However, a fraud is a fraud. If you're going to act like a expert on something, you better damn well have read it in the first place.
well, when you make it to the 8th grade, you begin to lose interest in that, "They did it too" mentality. Along with that, "Look what you made me do" condition as well.
But based upon your post right here, it seems that every mutherfucker in D.C. is committing fraud because every one of them seems to be an expert on the stimulus AND health care bill. Even though none of them have read it.
A long, long, long time ago.well, when you make it to the 8th grade, you begin to lose interest in that, "They did it too" mentality. Along with that, "Look what you made me do" condition as well.
But based upon your post right here, it seems that every mutherfucker in D.C. is committing fraud because every one of them seems to be an expert on the stimulus AND health care bill. Even though none of them have read it.
You mean you haven't caught up to the fact yet that 99% of politicians in D.C. are frauds?
