More on Government

Been meaning to address this since I first heard about it a few weeks ago. I heard that many in Congress planned on voting yea or nay on the health care reform bill having not read any of the bill. Let me say that again... MANY IN CONGRESS PLANNED ON VOTING FOR THE HEALTH CARE REFORM BILL HAVING NOT READ A SINGLE PAGE. Now, I actually did try to suffer through some of the bill pending before the Senate, and it is a brutal, tedious read full of legalese and bureaucratic legislative nonsense, so I can understand the aversion to wanting to read it. But it's their JOB!! What do we elect the JACK-ASSES for if not to read, write and vote on legislation. Some of these ploticians snorted disbelief and indignation at the mere suggestion that they should read this bill. We're not talking about renaming some highway or federal building here, folks... this bill is a huge, transformative piece of legislation that would forever change how health-care works in this country. Now, whether they believe it is for the better or the worse, I would think that the members of Congress owe it to their constituents to at least know what it is that they are voting for. And if they can't muster the time to read and understand the bill, they should vote a Nay or No by default. This infuriates me in a way that few stories have in recent years. The Congress works for us (we hire and fire them with our votes), and failure to read and understand this bill is such an unbelievable dereliction of their most basic responsibility, that anyone of them who votes for the bill without reading it first should be voted out at the next opportunity, regardless of party. If you are such a die-hard R or D that you feel the need to only vote down party lines, than vote for a challenger in your state's primary. People, we need to be engaged... pay attention, and hold our politicians to some kind of performance standard. If we don't, then we deserve whatever comes down the pike (like last years assinine CFL light bulb legislation). So pay attention, and hold your Senators and Representatives to account. Their votes do matter. Take note of how they vote on important matters like this, and hold them responsible come election time. This is our nation to preserve or to lose.