EEK! Run and HIDE! He’s going to READ the Bill!
November 10, 2009 1:41 pm Current Events, PoliticsOklahoma Senator Tom Coburn, aka Dr. No, has threatened the unthinkable. He has found the mother of all horror stories and is considering reading it in front of the Senate. Each and every tortured word. And it’s not even Halloween.
We sent the good doctor to Washington on the heels of Mr. Smith. With thousands of pages to examine, I imagine the scene not being so different. We should all send him cough drops to be sure he can make it through.
November 10th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Good man!
November 10th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
LOL! Yeah, Dr. No would do that, wouldn’t he? I love it!
November 10th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
Unlikely that anyone on the D side of the aisle will be listening, though.
November 11th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
It would be great if he read the bill so that everyone has the opportunity to know what is in it.
But let’s not lose sight of the fact that any time a person votes in favor of a bill, it should have been read first.
Gross government waste or violations routinely come about when the bills are not read. Witness: Bush Bailout, Stimulus Package, Patriot Act.
I don’t care what Party a person belongs to. If a lawmaker is going to vote in favor of the bill, that person has a moral and fiduciary responsibility to read and thoroughly analyze the bill. This applies to any bill, not just the healthcare bill.
Competent deliberation is not possible if no one has read the bill. Read it. Understand it. Have a fine-tuning debate about it. Make the healthcare or any bill as good as it can be.
We’ve already had enough slipshod laws passed over the last decade. Let’s get some good ones passed now.
Jerrol LeBaron
Executive Director
Honor In Office
http://www.HonorInOffice.org