APPARENTLY ANYTHING THAT PASSES IS AN EMERGENCY:

Obama breaks five-day pledge (CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN, 2/5/09, Politico)

[O]bama’s 5 p.m. signing [of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program] came barely three hours after the House approved the bill, breaching Obama’s promise to have a five-day period of “sunlight before signing,” as he detailed on the campaign trail and on his website.

“Too often bills are rushed through Congress and to the president before the public has the opportunity to review them,” the Obama-Biden campaign website states. “As president, Obama will not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House website for five days.”

Obama signed the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act only two days after it received final passage last week, and it wasn’t posted on the White House website until after it became law.