Posted on 12/18/2010 10:46:39 AM PST by John Semmens
Both the White House and Congressional Democrats are upset about Republican plans to require that bills be read before being voted on.
Press Secretary Robert Gibbs called the read-before-passing strategy “a new low in this nation’s history. What they’re doing with the START Treaty, foe example, is both unconscionable and unconstitutional. Anyone familiar with the Constitution knows that the President is granted the power to make treaties. The Senate’s role is to ‘advise and consent.’ There is no need for them to read the treaty. There is no Constitutional authorization for them to hold a treaty hostage with this kind of delaying tactic.”
Senator John Kerry (D-Mass) seconded and expanded upon Gibbs’ take on the issue. “It would be bad enough if this problem were only confined to the Senate,” Kerry complained. “But the Republicans say they will be applying it to all legislation not just the Senate’s treaty consenting process. I mean, the omnibus spending bill is almost 2,000 pages long. Requiring us to read such bills before we pass them will severely hamper what we can get done in the limited time we have available.”
Kerry rejected the contention that passing laws that he hasn’t read might be irresponsible. “It’s not as if nobody has read these bills,” Kerry argued. “We have aides who do this sort of thing for us. Besides, pretty much everything we pass ends up in litigation anyway. The lawyers and the courts will parse the phraseology of the legislation and determine what it means. Why should we be required to duplicate their effort?”
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LOL! Good stuff!!! The "courts" do all the legislating these days!
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“There is no need for them to read the treaty.”
Then how are they going to “advise”?
If you go back into the Congressional Papers, you will find that Washington showed up at a Senate Session with his Secretary of War to complete a Treaty.
(In my own words) "Wait, said the Senator...we haven't even read it. We're not going to act on this."
Then what the hell am I doing here...and GW walked out with Knox at his side. He was flaming.
This is satire, my FRiend. Although, admittedly, I got halfway through the fourth paragraph before I even had an inkling it was satire. Such is the sad state of affairs in our nation today.
Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh !
BTTT !
It is a sign and symptom of the intellectual disintegration of the libtards that it is very hard to tell the difference between satire and truth.
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Sadly it’s not to far from the truth.
They have such huge brains, they’ve become clairvoyant?
Sorry, that was a rhetorical question.
The lazy SOB, I'll bet he doesn't even wipe his own ass; 'I have aides to do that sort of thing'.
BTW look for the word "hostage" being used ad nauseam by the left during the next session of Congress.
LOL, I needed that!! Love it when you poke my ole buddy “Self Inflicted” Kerry.
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Good job, once again.
Getting a little hard to write GOOD SATIRE, since the LEFT does and says the stupidest things right on cue.
You know, that’s not too far off from what Kerry actually said. Reminds me of John Conyers “read the bill” nonsense at the National Press Club.
You bet. I would hope the Republicans would treat the dim dam dems the same exact way they have treated us over the last few dozens of years.
BAD!
Yes...the poorly written legislation and judicial interpretation is one of the biggest root problems we face.
Here is a thought maybe if you @$$h@t$ read them first maybe not so many would end up in litigation.
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