Some years back, California State Senator H.L. Richardson wrote a book titled, You Don't Think We Actually Read The Bills, Do You? Now, proving that life imitates art, we have John Conyers (D-MI) admitting that there's no point in reading the health care bill before he votes for it.
If the voters were actually paying any attention, this would be a devastating admission--something that you would have to waterboard a politician to admit. (Waterboarding politicians...hmmm...that's an interesting hypothetical.)
Fortunately, we have leaders who recognize the hazard of rushing bills through without anyone reading them or thinking about them. From July 27, 2009 Newsbusters:
To get the full flavor of the Obama hypocrisy, be sure to listen to the YouTube clip which also includes a video of MSNBC's Chuck Todd discussing why Rahm Emanuel felt the need to Rahm, I mean ram, legislation through congress. Here is the transcript which picks up at the 55 second mark:
BARACK OBAMA: ...When you rush these budgets that are a foot high and nobody has any idea what's in them and nobody has read them.
RANDI RHODES: 14 pounds it was!
BARACK OBAMA: Yeah. And it gets rushed through without any clear deliberation or debate then these kinds of things happen. And I think that this is in some ways what happened to the Patriot Act. I mean you remember that there was no real debate about that. It was so quick after 9/11 that it was introduced that people felt very intimidated by the administration.
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