Just like the stimulus package, Obama’s cap and trade catastrophe passed without a single member of the house reading it. To give more cause for concern, the bill doesn’t officially exist. There is no copy available to read.
By all appearances, the House is about to vote on a very long bill of which it has no completed official copy.
Texas Republican Reps. Joe Barton and Louie Gohmert have just asked the chair whether there exists a complete, updated copy of the Waxman-Markey carbon-cap bill.
“If a bill for which there is no copy were to actually pass this body,” Barton asked, “could the bill without a copy be sent to the Senate for its consideration?”
Through a series of parliamentary inquiries, the Republicans learned that the 300-plus page managers’ amendment, added to the bill last night in the House Rules Committee, has not even been been integrated with the official copy of the 1,090-page bill at the House Clerk’s desk, let alone in any other location. The two documents are side-by-side at the desk as the clerk reads through the instructions in the 300 page document for altering the 1,090 page document.
But they cannot be simply combined, because the amendment contains 300 pages of items like this: “Page 15, beginning line 8, strike paragraph (11)…” How many members of Congress do you suppose have gone through it all to see how it changes the bill?
Global Warming is apparently so urgent that we can’t even wait until members of Congress know what they’re voting on.
I’m not one for new laws (more akin to repealing a boatload myself), bit how about some legislation requiring members of congress to actually “read” the said legislation before voting on it. Maybe another stating for a bill to be voted on, it has to actually exist.
I keep waiting for this return of competent, mature governance and haven’t seen it. How’s Obama doing on filling those staff positions?
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And the Founding Fathers complained about taxation without representation! We need to throw all those who voted “yay” out on their ASSES! Oh, yeah, charge them with acts of treason while we’re at it. This whole thing… BHO and Nancy P. and Ol Dingy are not fit to serve!! Please excuse, I’m Pissed!
The 8 GOP Useful Idiots need to be asked about this. What exactly was in this bill that was so important that they had to vote yes on a Friday instead of delaying until Monday at least? (I already know the answer: get outta town for the 4th of July recess.)
Ah, yes, 4th of July, the day we celebrate our freedom, or more precisely our loss of it!
So now she can go home to CA and revel in the glory of knowing that she screwed every man, woman and child in the United States for decades to come! I really wish I felt free to use the “C” word here, but in deference to the ladies I won’t.
These people make Michael Jackson look like an amateur. Every child in the United States of America has just gotten fucked.
A line so fine, I wish it was mine.
You’d think the press might make this front page news, seeing as how the bill could affect every single American …
You’d think …
You would think. You would also think thousands rising up against the latest Tehran threat would be on the noose (I think that’s more appropriate than “news”) instead of Whacko Jacko’s zeitgeist from beyond the grave.
I talk to people who remember the “good ol’ days” before O’Reilly, Olbermann and the internet. When news seemed easier to discern and to trust. Those days, no one would know the house just voted on a massive life-changing bill that doesn’t exist, that Dan Rather tried to take down a Presidency with some 1970s memos typed on Microsoft Word, or Obama’s staff has more cheats than an old Nintendo game.