Posted on 05/27/2011 5:21:45 PM PDT by Kaslin
Remember when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi got all wound up in March 2010 about the passage of ObamaCare and told the assembled conventioneers at the National Association of Counties that the bill's reforms were going to make health care in America "very, very exciting"?
To lift "the fog of controversy" off the legislation, all Congress had to do, she explained, was "pass the bill so that you can find out what's in it."
None of us, in short, was supposed to play any part. Speaker Pelosi, President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had it all figured out, just as Hillary Clinton mistakenly thought she had it all figured out 16 years earlier.
The central planners were saying we didn't need to know what was in the legislation before it was passed and, hence, there was no reason for us to bother our members of Congress with our factless opinions.
In fact, it was the same for the members of Congress. The marching order from the White House was to pass the bill post-haste without reading it, without finding out "what's in it."
There was no time allocated to read the 1,017 pages of Washington double-speak and bureaucratic legalese. Like in the children's game, we were all to play Follow the Leader. No one needed to look inside the bill in order to buy it.
(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...
Could we also say she’s the Mother of Death Panels?
Yes.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.