This is maddening. House (and Senate) members are voting on bills they haven’t read, which means they don’t know what’s in the bills. And House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer thinks it’s funny. Spending other people’s money must be a real hoot!
“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.
American voters should let their elected represenatitves know in no uncertain terms that if they vote for bills they don’t read, they should not expect to be re-elected. The only way to start holding these people accountable (in both parties) is to vote them out of office!
Via Memeorandum
Does the phrase, The blind leading the blind, ring a bell? What a troupe of equine posteriors we have “guiding” us.
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Sorry Lew – I deleted your comment accidentally.
Lew’s comment: “When in the course of human events……” The time is now for these idiots to start fearing the people again
I meant to reply that “When in the course of human events” is one of my favorite lines ever.
Sorry, Lew.
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