July 9, 2009
Read an entire bill before voting? That’s hilarious!
Apparently, the idea of our elected representatives actually reading a bill in its entirety is so absurd as to be laughable to those same elected representatives:
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said Tuesday that the health-care reform bill now pending in Congress would garner very few votes if lawmakers actually had to read the entire bill before voting on it.
“If every member pledged to not vote for it if they hadn’t read it in its entirety, I think we would have very few votes,” Hoyer told CNSNews.com at his regular weekly news conference.
Hoyer was responding to a question from CNSNews.com on whether he supported a pledge that asks members of the Congress to read the entire bill before voting on it and also make the full text of the bill available to the public for 72 hours before a vote.
In fact, Hoyer found the idea of the pledge humorous, laughing as he responded to the question. “I’m laughing because a) I don’t know how long this bill is going to be, but it’s going to be a very long bill,” he said.
“Members clearly–and staff and review boards, they read them in their entirety. They go over it with members, and members read substantial portions of the bill themselves, but the issue is–I don’t know who signed this (pledge), but frankly the opposition has been very vociferous, not of the verbiage and bill, but on the concept that it incorporates,” Hoyer said.
Our representatives are laughing right in our faces. They are refusing to do their jobs, voting on bills they haven’t even read, and destroying our country. If the bills being proposed are too large for them to read they should write shorter bills. If they won’t shorten them, they should allow more time for members of Congress to read them.
If they aren’t reading the entire bill, they can’t possibly grasp the entire bill and all of its implications for our country. Think about it. These politicians have forgotten who their bosses are: WE THE PEOPLE. They are laughing in our faces while they make up excuses refusing to do their jobs.
We didn’t elect their staffs to read these bills for them and give them a short summary. We elected these politicians to represent us. How can they truly represent us if they don’t even know what the heck they are voting on? That’s like if I made a recommendation to my boss without doing any background research. The recommendation would be garbage because I wouldn’t know what I was talking about.
These politicians don’t know what they’re talking about. They prance around acting like their experts and jamming one America-killing bill after another down our throats, even while we protest them. They laugh at us for asking them to at least read the bill before voting on it and they won’t even let us see the bill before they vote on it. This is disgusting.
Their flagrant misuse of their power coupled with their flamboyant abuse of their constituents is sickening. They think they can do whatever they want and get away with it. This is insulting to every American. In what other circumstance could you imagine an employee laughing at a boss’s request for them to do their job (that they are getting pretty well paid for, and let’s not get into all of the perks!)? Try laughing at your boss the next time he asks you to do something. You’ll be lucky if you still have a job.
And therein lies the problem. Members of Congress, especially those who have been there since God created man (seriously, don’t any of these people ever want to retire and just enjoy old age?), aren’t scared of losing their jobs. They don’t consider the American people to be their boss. They think they are invincible. It is our duty as Americans to remind them they are not.
Steny Hoyer is the House Majority Leader. He thinks he can do what he wants, say what he wants, and laugh in the face of the American people without consequence. I am calling on the people of Maryland to vote this one out at the first chance they get.
(H/T: Michelle Malkin)
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