Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D- Nev.) will not commit to giving senators and the public a full week to read and review the final version of a health-care reform bill before he holds a final vote on it.Remember that bill. They had to rush it through before the three-day weekend before Obama would come back to sign the thing. They couldn't, however, give up a couple days of that weekend to actually read the more than 1000 pages that they were voting on. So how much time will they need for the health bill? A few hours hours between midnight and 3 am?
Reid confessed at his Thursday news briefing that he did not have “a lot of time” to read the 1,071-page stimulus bill before voting on it in February.
He was unapologetic, however, about the way Congress rushed that bill through before it could be reviewed by senators and the public, and declined to commit to giving senators and the public at least a week to read the final version of health-care reform bill before calling a vote on it.
“Looking back, I don’t know how much time people had," Reid said about the stimulus bill in response to a question from CNSNews.com. "I know that I didn’t have a lot of time."
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Friday, June 26, 2009
Harry Reid: doubling down on his own ignorance
It's nice when our political leaders acknowledge that they're passing massive changes to our economy without even reading what it is that they're passing. And Harry Reid is quite up front about it.
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Can Harry Reid read the tea leaves? He isn't very popular in his own home state and his penchant for stifling debate on the most important bills is going to catch up with him.
It's a shame we don't have a news media with sufficient competence and morality to tell the American people. Regardless of party affiliation, no one can defend this type of government behavior. The real villians here are the liberal news media and liberal political leaders who lack the moral decency to stand up for due process.
This is his special way of reiding it. ):
Groovy, a Senate version of an all-nighter. Pizza, Pabst and puking. Of course there was the minor detail of actually studying!
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