Monday, July 27, 2009
Same Old Song and Dance
Amazingly enough another politician has opened his mouth and stuck his foot deeply inside. This time the prize goes to John Conyers, Democrat Congressman from Michigan. He stated "What good is reading the bill if it’s a thousand pages and you don’t have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?”
Such a brilliant statement by one of our elected officials tasked with deciding whether or not to pass the National Health Care Bill. He wonders why on earth anyone would actually read something important that they are attaching their signature to?
I hardly even know how to respond to that line of idiocy. I suppose he just signs anything and everything placed in front of him? Is this man for real? Are we supposed to be as naive as him to believe that whatever happens to be included in this bill, however it is worded and whatever the actual details are (many of which will not be filled in until much later) is good and proper and desirable and legal and if not, well we can always fix it later?
Disastrous and incredibly arrogant and elitist. If you, Mr. John Conyers, cannot be bothered to actually read every single bill that you vote for or against, then perhaps you should look for a job in another profession. You obviously cannot handle the detailed, precision work involved in passing legislation. Perhaps Government Motors has a job you can handle better.
It seems to me to be a very common theme amongst our Federal legislators these days. Hurry up and pass something and work out the details later. Everyone knows the devil himself is in those very details, so who really has an interest in exposing him? Just get the damned thing passed, signed and into law, then we'll discuss it. Wonderful logic.
I'm wondering, if John Conyers thinks it does no good to read a bill that's 1000 pages long unless you have a lawyer and two days to figure it out, why should the American people think this is such a good idea. Didn't Congress just pass a law directing the Credit Card Companies to make their terms and agreements easy to understand and posted prominently on the web for anyone to access?
Why, yes they did do just that very thing last month. It's standard procedure for Washington to tell everyone else how they should act and run their business but always, always exempting themselves. Shouldn't this Health Care Bill be simple enough for the ordinary citizen to understand? After all, the ordinary citizen is who will have to abide by the rules.
And how damn long does it take to type something up and put a link to it on a web site so that anyone could read what's in it. I guarantee anyone that there are many, many ordinary citizens that would take the time to read and understand everything in this bill if it were made easily available to them, as was once promised by both the President and Congress. And they would not be hesitant to report what they learn on every facet of this complicated, bloated monstrosity.
The very reason they do not read large bills and do not make them available for others to read is because they know these bills will not stand under the scrutiny of their details. They practice deception while preaching transparency.
Same old song and dance.
OH
Such a brilliant statement by one of our elected officials tasked with deciding whether or not to pass the National Health Care Bill. He wonders why on earth anyone would actually read something important that they are attaching their signature to?
I hardly even know how to respond to that line of idiocy. I suppose he just signs anything and everything placed in front of him? Is this man for real? Are we supposed to be as naive as him to believe that whatever happens to be included in this bill, however it is worded and whatever the actual details are (many of which will not be filled in until much later) is good and proper and desirable and legal and if not, well we can always fix it later?
Disastrous and incredibly arrogant and elitist. If you, Mr. John Conyers, cannot be bothered to actually read every single bill that you vote for or against, then perhaps you should look for a job in another profession. You obviously cannot handle the detailed, precision work involved in passing legislation. Perhaps Government Motors has a job you can handle better.
It seems to me to be a very common theme amongst our Federal legislators these days. Hurry up and pass something and work out the details later. Everyone knows the devil himself is in those very details, so who really has an interest in exposing him? Just get the damned thing passed, signed and into law, then we'll discuss it. Wonderful logic.
I'm wondering, if John Conyers thinks it does no good to read a bill that's 1000 pages long unless you have a lawyer and two days to figure it out, why should the American people think this is such a good idea. Didn't Congress just pass a law directing the Credit Card Companies to make their terms and agreements easy to understand and posted prominently on the web for anyone to access?
Why, yes they did do just that very thing last month. It's standard procedure for Washington to tell everyone else how they should act and run their business but always, always exempting themselves. Shouldn't this Health Care Bill be simple enough for the ordinary citizen to understand? After all, the ordinary citizen is who will have to abide by the rules.
And how damn long does it take to type something up and put a link to it on a web site so that anyone could read what's in it. I guarantee anyone that there are many, many ordinary citizens that would take the time to read and understand everything in this bill if it were made easily available to them, as was once promised by both the President and Congress. And they would not be hesitant to report what they learn on every facet of this complicated, bloated monstrosity.
The very reason they do not read large bills and do not make them available for others to read is because they know these bills will not stand under the scrutiny of their details. They practice deception while preaching transparency.
Same old song and dance.
OH
# posted by OH @ 11:50 AM 
