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To: Doohickey
Gosh, 80 Republicans voted "yes" on a bill they didn't actually read. I'm shocked.

Happens all the time. Not to defend the Republicans too much, but I remember in the days of Tip O'Neill when the Democrats would formulate legisltation in closed-door sessions (closed to the minority), then on the day of voting, plop a 12-inch stack of papers on the Republicans' desks and say "here's the legislation - we're voting on it in 30 minutes!"

25 posted on 01/12/2007 6:26:03 AM PST by COBOL2Java ("No stronger retrograde force exists in the world" - Winston Churchill on Islam)
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To: COBOL2Java

I'm sure it does. In those cases, a responsible Representative would vote no. If I agreed to everything that crossed by desk based on a title or a soundbite, I'd get fired.


29 posted on 01/12/2007 6:30:57 AM PST by Doohickey (I am not unappeasable. YOU are just too easily appeased.)
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