They had lots of practice. Ever hear of "The Patriot Act"?
For that gem, they didn't even bother to debate, let alone read it! They just took it, and voted it in, just like that.
Contrast this with the painfully protracted "debate" over the stuff regarding Terri Schindler. While dragging it out, arguing over every jot and tittle -- crossing their fingers and hoping she'd just die already to let them off the hook -- they gave us nauseatingly sanctimonious crap about how they had to go over every aspect of it with a fine-toothed comb, because they had an obligation to protect the Constitution.
I swear, a bigger, bolder, and more arrogant lot of hypocrites the world has never seen. And we call them "leaders", feh!
Good point!
I had forgotten how the (democrats) forced those little changes on the repubbies, all the while pretending to "let it pass" = So the repubbies would get blamed for falling to pressure from "the religious right" .