Posted on 01/27/2015 9:19:52 AM PST by John Semmens
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev) acknowledged that injuries to his eye sustained in an exercise apparatus mishap last month prevent him from reading. Rather than being an impediment to his legislative performance, though, Reid insists that it will be an asset.
“The premise that a lawmaker needs to read the words he is enacting into law is erroneous,” Reid asserted. “Attempting to read the 1000 page bills we are asked to act upon is time consuming and, ultimately, unnecessary. Even when I could read I couldn’t bring myself to wade through the 2000 pages of the Affordable Care Act. But as everyone knows, we passed it anyway. And now millions of people are enjoying the health insurance it mandates.”
More important than undertaking the tedious task of reading the fine print of pending legislation according to Reid, “is knowing the answer to one simple question: ‘what does President Obama want us to do.’ As long as we act to carry out his will I’m confident that we’ll be on the right track.”
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He can read. He’s just stupid.
Staffer are nothing more than in house lobbyists and they are the ones who write the bills.
John McCain had a staffer who went directly from his office to the vice presidency of Boeing. She’s now back in Washington as chief of staff for GOP armed services committee staffers. (Committees have separate staff)
The fact is, we will never fix DC until people wake up and fix the problem of behind the scenes unelected legislation.
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