[vbmoneyspender]

It wasn't Brady - it was James Baker's granddaughter - which makes the legislation even more ridiculous. Only 11 people have drowned from this 'defect' since 1999. That's one a year. You are 50 times more likely to die from a lightning strike than you are to die from getting stuck to a pool drain. Given these facts, one would think this is not the type of tragedy that is crying out for redress via a brand new section in the United States Code.

Put bluntly, this was feelgood legislation that was passed to make the family of a Washington DC bigshot feel better. Conservatives should find it truly disturbing that if some Washington DC insider has some tragedy occur in their family, they stand a good chance of imposing their will on all of their fellow citizens through ridiculous legislation that their fellow DC insiders pass in order to make all of them feel good.

Again this is just ridiculous and is emblematic of everything that is wrong with Washington DC.

[matt04]

And from what I have read about the drownings, several were from either broken or missing drain covers, leaving just a hole whit a pipe at the bottom, no plastic cover over it. And as I said earlier, to me it would seem you would have try to get stuck to a drain.

Even if it is a new pool, with two drains connected to the same pipe whit the safe covers on it, I’m sure you could find a way to block both drains, rendering any new laws on design and covers useless.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Of course I meant Baker. Thanks for the correction.