"It would be my hope that this could be resolved today, that we'd have a day for the American people and members of Congress to review the legislation on the Internet,'' said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California. "One thing is for sure, we are not leaving until this legislation is passed."
Nancy hopes there's an entire day for the American people to review the legislation. She can't promise, of course, but she "hopes." Not that any of that matters because in the very next sentence she tells the American people exactly what their opinion will mean - not a goddamned thing. But that's nitpicking isn't it? If we're really nice, Nancy will make sure that we get a chance to read the legislation the Congress is going to pass that we'll be paying for for generations. Or at least she hopes to.
Really, what more could any American ask for from the third-highest ranking member of their government?
NOTE - She's not even promising that the Members of Congress who have to vote on this piece of shit will get a day to review it. Because it would be terrible if anyone making decisions got a chance to think. Just write the check NOW! NOW! NOW!
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Isn't that part of BOs new "transparency"? We'll be able to see
everything that the government is doing? Of course, that doesn't ensure that they will be doing things that we approve of. This bailout must be the test run of this transparency thingy.
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Call the speaker's office at (202) 225-0100 & a human answers!
At least, that's what just happened to me at 11:17PM EDT.
YMMV, but here's your chance to be very polite....
[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
Thanks LB. Let's keep screaming.
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Here's to Hoping
"Hope" is turning out to be quite the infection, no? I think it's progressed to sepsis. Give it a few more days, and we'll be pussing and oozing "hope".
So, this is the "hope & change" that "we've all been waiting for?" To hope that things don't go from bad to worse, and that things don't go from bad to worse?
The Dems could have been on top of this from day one. If we had to give this up, we could have demanded a slow dispersal, a protection for homeowners, and a plethora of other sensible options. Instead, they find themselves reacting to a over-eager, come-on-too-strong administration. Who do you think wins the fight in that case? It ain't the Dem leadership, that's for sure. Couldn't they at least pretend to look like they know what they are doing?
But, we've always been at war with Eastasia...
Thomas
Right now a Representative/Senator sends over their proposal to legislative services for drafting. After it is drafted the paper copy send sent back to the Rep/Senator, who then may revise it or may put it into "the hopper", whereupon the Clerk will assign it a number, whereupon it is sent to the Government Printing Office, who prints the paper copies and forwards the electronic copy to the Library of Congress Thomas site.
Between the time the member receives the legislation and when they drop it in the hopper, every lobbyist worthy of the fee has seen it. There is no reason the draft legislation could not be published directly to the Thomas site as soon as the member has it in their hand, for that matter there is no reason you could not have RSS feeds for legislation by member and key word from the Thomas site, the same for amendments.
Harry & Nancy have the authority to do this, the worker bees of leglislative services and the Library of Congress can do nothing without political authority.