Read the Bill!

Dick Armey was part of the "Read the bill!!" crowd in the stimulus debate, and even launched a website and online petition drive called “ReadTheStimulus.org”.

Yesterday, he appeared before the the House Oversight and Government Reform committee. He was there to testify as the Republican's expert witness on the stimulus.

A Democrat asked him if he supported the unemployment compensation provisions of the bill. Armey said he might...but conceded that he had not read that portion of the bill.

The Democrat then pressed on a bit. The result? Armey admitted had not read any of the bill, even though he was appearing as an expert about it, and repeatedly goes before the press to criticize it.

Seriously - you cannot make this stuff up.

And what has Dick been doing since the stimulus bill passed? Well, he divides his time between organizing teabagger rallies and working as a lobbyist to help businesses gain from the stimulus.