Brickbat: I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means

After a judge ruled that lawmakers had been illegally withholding records such as emails and their daily calendars from the press and public, the Washington legislature rushed through a bill exempting most of those records from the state's Public Records Act. They hailed it as a win for transparency since they'd previously been withholding almost all records. After a public outcry, Gov. Jay Inslee vetoed the bill.
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Well, to be fair, what they were doing was pretty transparent.
"If you think that I don't know about the little tricks you've played
And never see you when deliberately you put things in my way"
---The Who
Apparently not everywhere in Washington.
It's going to be massively time-consuming to redact the important bits out of all their office paperwork. And e-mails - do you have any idea how hard it is to clean Sharpie black off of a computer screen?
"I do not think it means what you think it means."
Hey, that's MY line!
Don't take credit for vizzini.
"They hailed it as a win for transparency since they'd previously been withholding almost all records."
Trying to decide: Is this more Kafka, Orwell, or just run of the mill Soviet propaganda?
Maybe Lewis Carroll?
Can't it be all 3?
Why not? Though I have to agree with Skeptic, it does have that sense of a rabbit hole about it.
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They hailed it as a win for transparency since they'd previously been withholding almost all records.
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