Sometimes when I drive down highway #1 from Aptos to Monterey I see a driver who seems to be completely asleep at the wheel. The way the head is faced or the body bobbing up and down to music I wonder how the car gets down the freeway. Obviously the car is on automatic control.
Seems like that is how our U.S. Congress acts. What ever the Democratic Party tells them to do they do. Something else — not them — is in control. They regularly sign things they have not read.
And these are the people are supposed to be control of the purse. Read the following:
Check the following article from Overlawyered:
On the House floor
By: David Freddoso
Commentary Staff Writer
06/26/09
By all appearances, the House is about to vote on a very long bill of which it has no completed official copy.
Texas Republican Reps. Joe Barton and Louie Gohmert have just asked the chair whether there exists a complete, updated copy of the Waxman-Markey carbon-cap bill.
“If a bill for which there is no copy were to actually pass this body,” Barton asked, “could the bill without a copy be sent to the Senate for its consideration?”
Through a series of parliamentary inquiries, the Republicans learned that the 300-plus page managers’ amendment, added to the bill last night in the House Rules Committee, has not even been been integrated with the official copy of the 1,090-page bill at the House Clerk’s desk, let alone in any other location. The two documents are side-by-side at the desk as the clerk reads through the instructions in the 300 page document for altering the 1,090 page document.
But they cannot be simply combined, because the amendment contains 300 pages of items like this: “Page 15, beginning line 8, strike paragraph (11)…” How many members of Congress do you suppose have gone through it all to see how it changes the bill?
Global Warming is apparently so urgent that we can’t even wait until members of Congress know what they’re voting on.
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