I'm sure each and every one of the senators read the entire thing before they signed it, just like they did obamacare... oh, wait.
Seriously, how can these dipshits sign something they haven't read? Aren't most of them lawyers? Holy shit, you would think a lawyer would know better than to sign something without reading every stinking word, especially when it is written by politicians. There are no two lower forms of life on the planet than lawyers and politicians.
With each passing day my respect for these people gets lower, and I don't even know how that is possible...
By Matt Cover - CNSNews
The U.S. Senate voted 89-8 to approve legislation to avoid the fiscal cliff despite having only 3 minutes to read the 154-page bill and budget score.
Multiple Senate sources have confirmed to CNSNews.com that senators received the bill at approximately 1:36 AM on Jan. 1, 2013 – a mere three minutes before they voted to approve it at 1:39 AM.
The bill is 154-pages and includes several provisions that are unrelated to the fiscal cliff, including repealing a section of ObamaCare, extending the wind-energy tax credit, and a rum tax subsidy deal for Puerto Rican rum makers.
The bill avoids the fiscal cliff by making permanent the Bush tax cuts for individuals making less than $400,000 per year and couples making less than $450,000 and by putting off the automatic spending cuts (sequestration) from last year’s debt ceiling deal until March.
Technically, those Bush tax rates had expired at midnight on Dec. 31, 2012 and the spending cuts were scheduled to take place when the government reopened following the New Year’s Day holiday.
Multiple Senate sources have confirmed to CNSNews.com that senators received the bill at approximately 1:36 AM on Jan. 1, 2013 – a mere three minutes before they voted to approve it at 1:39 AM.
The bill is 154-pages and includes several provisions that are unrelated to the fiscal cliff, including repealing a section of ObamaCare, extending the wind-energy tax credit, and a rum tax subsidy deal for Puerto Rican rum makers.
The bill avoids the fiscal cliff by making permanent the Bush tax cuts for individuals making less than $400,000 per year and couples making less than $450,000 and by putting off the automatic spending cuts (sequestration) from last year’s debt ceiling deal until March.
Technically, those Bush tax rates had expired at midnight on Dec. 31, 2012 and the spending cuts were scheduled to take place when the government reopened following the New Year’s Day holiday.
It should have become obvious - even before the obscenity that was the passage of Obamacare - that Congress, all of our government, for that matter, is nothing but a con game.
ReplyDeletePassing legislation that not only isn't read, but CAN'T be read, is so wrong it beggars the imagination. It is proof positive that the members of Congress have no desire whatsoever to behave in a Constitutional manner, and no desire to properly represent their constituents.
I was going to say "those who elected them", but in truth they were self-elected with an assist from various special interest groups and individuals, not by anything so quaint as the "voting public".
Is there any doubt in anyone's mind that an actual revolution will be required if we decide that this state of affairs is not acceptable to us? Our votes don't count - aren't actually counted - so working within the system will not correct this.
Wasn't it Einstein who said something about using the same system to correct a problem that created the problem was an exercise in futility? We "voted" our way into this soft tyranny. We cannot vote our way out if it.
You know RegT, I never wanted to believe that. Semper Fi, 0321 has been telling me the same thing for quite a while now.
DeleteI'm starting to realize you guys are probably more right than I want to imagine. It's going to get worse before it gets better...