Senator Deja Vu

A senator was being interviewed on a radio talk show and was speaking about bills being pushed through quickly without allowing time for debate and understanding the bill. This senator was discussing how bad things get slipped in and pass through if the bills are pushed too quickly.

“When you rush these budgets that are a foot high and nobody has any idea what's in them and nobody has read them…and it gets rushed through without any clear deliberation or debate then these kinds of things happen.”

The year was 2004. The speaker was Barack Obama, newly elected senator from Illinois, and he was criticizing President Bush for rushing legislation through too quickly. He maintained the need for deliberation and debate or “these kinds of things happen.” He was speaking with Randi Rhodes, who has conveniently forgotten that he said those things on her show.

Kudos to Naked Emperor News for uncovering this interview.

Also in the audio clip, you’ll hear “journalist” Chuck Todd from MSNBC expounding on Rahm Emanuel’s plan to flood multiple bills all at one time quickly so as to avoid giving the opposition time to organize and get out the truth and kill the bills.

“And I think they're attacking it this way: saying we're going to push 3 or 4 different things. Because they believe the opposition won't have time to unite and kill all of it.”

Hey guys – words matter.