Meaning, in this instance, our Democrats and their Obama-Pelosi-Ried Hot-Dang-We-Gonna-Spend-Us-Some-Money Porkenstien “Stimulus” Bill – no one can possibly read it prior to the upcoming vote – from The Sundries Shack:
It is now 7 PM and the Democrats in Congress have yet to give their Republican counterparts a copy of the final Stimulus Bill for them to read. Steny Hoyer says that the House is going to move toward a vote starting at 9 AM tomorrow.
Today’s version of the bill clocks in at 1,434 pages and that’s not the final version. What Congress will likely vote on tomorrow (because President Obama has practically demanded that he sign it on Monday) is likely going to be larger.
There is no chance in the world that any member of Congress is going to be able to read the bill by morning unless they are a trained speed reader. Even then, they’re not going to know the full ramifications of what the bill contains. I’ll do some back of the envelope calculations to prove it.
Let’s start with two generous assumptions: that the bill remains at 1,434 pages, and it gets in the hands of your member of Congress at 8 PM. Let’s also assume that there are about 350 words on each page
In order for anyone to read the entire bill in 13 hours, they’d have to start the very minute they got it and read over 1.8 pages a minute every minute, without a break. They’ll be clocking in at a reading speed of 640.5 words per minute at that rate. If anyone needs a potty break, they’d better take the bill with them. Forget eating.
As noted later in that linked entry, even if by some miracle some Congresscritter did manage to read the whole thing, that doesn’t mean said critter would be able to understand all the ramifications of the bill, as a lot of the bill is couched in “amendment to sub-section 3C” legalese. At the end of the day, Obama and his Democrats are passing a bill of which they are ignorant of its provisions as well as how it will fit in with all other programs carried on by the United States government – its just a bunch of sh** shoved through the legislative process as fast as possible, with low level Congressional aides and Obama Administration officials to be left to apply it to the American people after passage.
Liberals, do you fully realize just how monumentally stupid this is? And this is the action of the man you swear up and down is a vast improvement over President Bush. Let me tell you – for the sake of argument, lets say that Bush was just as bad as you say he was. Obama is worse. By far.
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