Pelosi Humor

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Permalink Reply by Charles Lane on March 11, 2010 at 8:20pm

I don't understand why Van, Fang, and GHT do not want to discuss this...

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Permalink Reply by Van on March 12, 2010 at 4:54am

Dude, I can't be on the internet 24/7.

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Permalink Reply by Fang1944 on March 12, 2010 at 9:33am

I just got back from the gym. Some of us start the day doing something healthful.

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Permalink Reply by Action Jeans on March 12, 2010 at 8:35am

Here you go (pdf file). That's the House bill, it's only 1990 pages long.

Also, here's the Senate bill if that's not enough light reading for you.

How many people do you think are going to read all that? Now think about the rest of us. What's the only other way we'll ever actually know what's in the bill?

Nancy Pelosi at 2010 Leg. conf. for NAoC:

“... we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy."

Exactly.

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Permalink Reply by Charles Lane on March 12, 2010 at 9:37am

Wow, you sure do place a lot of blind faith in your legislators. I guess government is the opiate of the asses.

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Permalink Reply by Action Jeans on March 12, 2010 at 12:14pm

No, I have a lot of faith that most people are too lazy to read for themselves what is actually contained within the bill before they make their minds up about it (or let their favorite pundit make their minds up for them).

What she said is factually true. Most people don't know what's in the bill and never will unless the bill actually passes.

Also, the only opiate your ass has been getting is through the glory hole at your local truck-stop.

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Permalink Reply by Fang1944 on March 12, 2010 at 1:30pm

Laws get passed all the time. Often we never learn what they say until they affect us personally or until they make the news in some way. We seem to survive that way most of the time.

Not long ago, the Texas Legislature (aka the National Experiment in Bad Government) passed a bill to forbid gay marriage, but they worded it so badly that they prohibited all kinds of marriage. It took awhile for that to sink in.