House Majority Leader Hoyer Laughs at Notion Members of Congress Should Read and Know Details of Bills Voting On

Maybe Ol' Steny is hiding his own illiteracy problem, or maybe this is endemic to the Democrats in the House? All humor aside, this is disgusting, and it should show the American people that members of Congress don't even want to know the abominations they are creating in the name of "hope/change." In fact, they think it silly to waste their time on the job (you know, the job WE THE PEOPLE elected them to) to read things they are going to vote on. Better, I guess, just to say "yessum" when Bullwhip Pelosi says jump than to actually take responsibility for the jobs you were elected to. Guess they are too busy going on Junkets or taking bribes (see William Jefferson, Democrat, Louisiana) to do what we elected them to do. Check out this self-serving synchophant in full bloom:

Washington (CNSNews.com) - House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said Tuesday that the health-care reform bill now pending in Congress would garner very few votes if lawmakers actually had to read the entire bill before voting on it.

“If every member pledged to not vote for it if they hadn’t read it in its entirety, I think we would have very few votes,” Hoyer told CNSNews.com at his regular weekly news conference.

Hoyer was responding to a question from CNSNews.com on whether he supported a pledge that asks members of the Congress to read the entire bill before voting on it and also make the full text of the bill available to the public for 72 hours before a vote.

In fact, Hoyer found the idea of the pledge humorous, laughing as he responded to the question. “I’m laughing because a) I don’t know how long this bill is going to be, but it’s going to be a very long bill,” he said.

“Members clearly--and staff and review boards, they read them in their entirety. They go over it with members, and members read substantial portions of the bill themselves, but the issue is--I don’t know who signed this (pledge), but frankly the opposition has been very vociferous, not of the verbiage and bill, but on the concept that it incorporates,” Hoyer said

Of course, he can't say they read the cap and trade bill, because their was no bill to be read, just miscellaneous notes and a pledge that one day there would be a bill.

This Congress is so corrupt and dysfunctional that the members themselves don't even want to read the garbage they are putting together. Throw these bums out, then maybe we can start frogmarching a few....

You know, the founders wanted bills read. They wanted government to be slow and deliberate. Not these left wing nutjobs. Look at how quick they have thrown this stuff, and without time to read or debate or refine. The reason? They want to throw as much up against the wall as possible, because then we will have trouble fighting it all, and some of it invariably will stick. And once put into place, these things are hard to change because they create monstrous bureaucracies. It is all about power and taking more of your life out of your hands and into the hands of government....

I wonder if they will whine about some aspect of the bill they didn't read like they did last time, with the AIG bonuses that were written into the bailouts, but when people read the bill....OUTRAGE....

What a joke....and we all are the suckers....