This 1,900 page 2,100 PAGE 2,400 PAGE TWENTY SEVEN HUNDRED PAGE!!!! bill will bankrupt our country!!!!
...so says Congressman John Boehner.
My car insurance policy from Geico, for one car: 47 pages.
My high school year book, for one year, for one high school: 328 pages.
The Harry Potter series, which I'm pretty sure Malia Obama has read: 4,100 pages.
Republican arugments about the length our health care bill: WORTHLESS
We're trying to reform the broken health care system of the third most populated country in the world, and they want to count sheets of paper. This is the kind of argument that we are dealing with. In fact, based on what I heard at the health care summit last month and during the bill markup today, this is a chief argument of the opposition.
You all are legislators. This is legislation. It's not Parade Magazine.
So what to do? Let's see: decrease the font, expand the margins, use both sides of the page and single space the damn thing. Then pass the bill. Because I can't watch this mindless, non sense anymore.
Finally, allow me to quote my congressman Rush Holt (D-NJ), of whom I had the pleasure of seeing at a town hall many months ago when health care was the hot topic and town halls were all the rage. Way back then he said this:
"A lot of people ask, 'how do you read the whole bill?' Well, I sit down and read it. We did it last week. We sat there for 2 days in a row and went through the whole thing."
Wow. It's as if he did his job, as a legislator...by reading legislation. Perhaps Congressman John Boehner and every other Congressman who thinks stacking up papers really high on a desk is a convincing argument for anything, should consider such a mind exercise and just stop acting like a 10th grader whose English teacher just gave him too much homework.