The only answer?
Because there are things in bills that their authors don’t want you to immediately know. Things you would object to. They would either be embarrassed or guilty if they were caught. And politicians know the American public is ignorant and possessed of no memory.
Unfortunately, it appears this isn’t just the beginning of a trend, it’s now the norm.
Just as the new 2,000+ -page omnibus budget bill was crafted in secrecy this week.
The Demorats started it. Now the Republicans want to sign off on it.
From Breitbart.com:
Who Wrote the Omnibus? Four Lawmakers, Many Lobbyists
by Peter Schweizer
The ugly work that went into the massive pork-filled omnibus spending bill snaking its way through congress is now starting to be exposed.
And it’s not for the faint at heart. Members of congress had little input in the bill and didn’t even in many cases know what was in it.
Read that line over again: members of congress had little input in the bill and didn’t even in many cases know what was in it.
“No member of even the House and Senate knew what was going on,” he (Senator Jeff Sessions, R-AL) told Portland, Oregon talk show host Lars Larson. “Special interests did because we heard from lobbyists what some things were being considered.”
Sessions went on to note that basically four members of congress put the deal together without consulting their colleagues. “It’s not right for ultimately four members, in secret — for reasons we have no understanding of — to make critical decisions on things,” he said.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, shit crafted in secrecy and by a cabal of limited persons.
For a REASON.
There are things in the bill yet undiscovered.
The new normal.
Do you like that?
BZ
This is exactly how social security was taken out of its own fund and put into the general fund in the early 1960s, among other things. Too many times bills found repugnant by the constituency are passed. That is how Obamacare was passed.
That is PRECISELY how ObamaKare was passed.
Most everything Obama said about it was a bald faced LIE.
BZ
Sounds like Paul Ryan is a “closet” Muslim or a traitor, and certainly not a Conservative Republican.
How did all of his friends, co-horts miss this??
Astounding to me.