To be Broken, that is…

Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act was presented to the President on June 16th. It has been “on his desk” five days as of 6/21, and according to Robert Gibbs, he will be signing the bill today:

The President will spend the weekend in Washington and has no scheduled public events. On Monday the President will sign the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act in the Rose Garden. On Tuesday the President will meet with the President of Chile at the White House. On Wednesday the President will hold a town hall meeting here at the White House in the East Room on health care, which will be broadcast on ABC during prime time. On Thursday the President –

When President Obama was just Candidate Obama, he promised not only to wait five days before signing any bill into law (which, to be fair, he has done in this particular case, even if his track record is not great on this issue), but to post the bill online. Granted, he never said where it would be available, and it is available on a few websites, but, as far as I can tell, none of those websites have any relationship whatsoever with the President.

This isn’t even a hard promise to keep. Why hasn’t President Obama kept it? (My theory? He said it to get elected, and never really intended to keep it unless he just felt like it. I could be a horrible cynic, though; I just don’t trust politicians.)