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In reply to the discussion: Arguing that there is something wrong with asking about details of legislation [View all]gratuitous
(82,849 posts)After all, when the original Affordable Care Act was rushed through Congress in 14 months, with a few thousand hours of testimony, a paltry several dozen committee hearings, and merely thousands and thousands of pages of written evidence, studies, and fact-gathering, very few people had sat down to read the bill in its entirety before the vote. Oh, it was a travesty to think that the bill had been the product of hundreds of hours of committee writing, scored by the CBO, and presented to Congress for a floor vote through regular order.
"Read the bill!" screeched the Tea Baggers, almost as if some of them were literate. They got hours and hours of coverage on all the major networks and cable shows, time and again demonstrating how little they grasped the legislative process. You don't hear a peep out of those tools now, do you? I'm sure the producers of the news shows still have those numbers in their rolodexes and contacts lists, but they're not calling anymore. Just weird.