This one is a bit twisty, so stay with me folks…
It all started with this post on Slashdot.
It seems like such an obviously good thing — transparency in the Government’s spending of our money. Nice! What a great idea! I’m sure it’s going to be a twisty bitch to implement, but well worth the effort. That is, unless, you have something to hide.
From the original post, comes a real nugget:
“There is no conceivable, rational explanation for killing this legislation unless they have something to hide.”
Then, this afternoon, comes this post. It seems that our old friend Senator “Tubes” Stevens [R-AK] pulled a ‘double secret probation’ move on the bill, effectively killing it. To make matters even more interesting, Stevens sits on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Commitee, the committe that originated and passed the bill in the first place. You would think that if he had trouble with the bill he would have mentioned it during the committee hearings. Problem is, he didn’t attend the hearings, any of them.
So, ‘Senator’ (and I use that term loosely) Stevens, What do you have to hide? I think it’s pretty obvious that you know absolutely nothing about how Internet works, so that’s not it. It’s also clear that your enjoy spending truckloads of the people’s money on unnecessary projects. That is, unless you consider enriching developers necessary. So that’s not it…
So what about it Senator? The People would like to know.