Don’t read; just vote. It’s all for a good cause.

Posted by Valerie on February 13, 2009

I think this video must be getting tons of hits, because it’s not loading readily. Here’s the text from John Boehner,

“…If all that wasn’t enough, here we are with 1100 pages. 1100 pages that not one member of this body has read. Not one. There may be some staffer over at Appropriations Committee that read all of this last night. I don’t know how you could read 1100 pages between midnight, uh, and now. Not one member’s read this. What happened to the promise that we’re gonna let the American people see what’s in this bill for forty-eight hours. But, nope––we don’t have time to do that.”

Did you know that 1100 pages of legislation is the functional equivalent of almost 9000 pages of good fiction? (It’s something like dog years to human years.)

My kids keep saying that no one read CPSIA before voting.