It seems like only yesterday that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi were promising “the most open and honest Congress ever” in American history.

Reid and Pelosi – as well as President Barack Obama – have flooded the airwaves in recent years with fine-sounding words extolling transparency in government, but their actions on the $787 billion economic stimulus package prove the hollowness of their talk.

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