A Good Imagination and a Pile of Junk

Found link via drudge, but it doesn’t seem to be there any more.

I’m having problems believing congress is even pretending to act in our best interests.

I’m currently looking for optical character recognition software to see if I can’t work towards converting this thing to normal text. I can’t take a substantial bite “in time” but here’s the link: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=30700

Here are the first 3 paragraphs.

Democratic staffers released the final version of the stimulus bill at about 11 p.m. last night after delaying the release for hours to put it into a format which people cannot “search” on their home computers.

Instead of publishing the bill as a regular internet document — which people can search by “key words” and otherwise, the Dems took hours to convert the final bill from the regular searchable format into “pdf” files, which can be read but not searched.

Three of the four .pdf files had no text embedded, just images of the text, which did not permit text searches of the bill. That move to conceal the bill’s provisions had not been remedied this morning at the time of publication of this article. (You can find the entire bill on the House Appropriations [http://appropriations.house.gov <http://appropriations.house.gov/>] website.)