Hypocrisy - They don't care, they hold you, the people in the greatest of contempt, and will, whether you want a law passed, do it anyway, because you, the people, do not know what you want, or what is good for you. Hypocrites.
Great digging - an interview in 2004 with Barack Obama by Randi Rhodes on Bush pushing through legislation without anyone having the opportunity to read it.
We know the Democrats and Republicans have not read the health care bill - Congressman Conyers admitted he didn't.
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BARACK OBAMA: ...When you rush these budgets that are a foot high and nobody has any idea what's in them and nobody has read them.
RANDI RHODES: 14 pounds it was!
BARACK OBAMA: Yeah. And it gets rushed through without any clear deliberation or debate then these kinds of things happen. And I think that this is in some ways what happened to the Patriot Act. I mean you remember that there was no real debate about that. It was so quick after 9/11 that it was introduced that people felt very intimidated by the administration.
And recently Senator Chuck Todd explains why they wanted to ram it through:
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CHUCK TODD: And a few things that I feel like that I've picked up from these guys. Number one is that they are very aware. Rahm Emanuel is Chief of staff...had experience in the Clinton White House. And he is trying to learn every lesson from those days of Clinton and apply it to Obama. So number one is, don't deal with just one big issue. One of the reasons why, for instance, they thought health care went down is you had one issue sitting out there when Hillary Clinton introduced it. We all focused on it in the media. And the opposition got to organize and stop it. And you can kill anything in this town if you set an idea out here long enough and give the opposition time to organize and stop something. And I don't care which side of the aisle you're on. You can kill anything in Washington doing that. And I think they're attacking it this way: saying we're going to push 3 or 4 different things. Because they believe the opposition won't have time to unite and kill all of it.
So it isn't about the time necessary to do the right thing, it isn't about serving the people, it isn't about the will of the people, it isn't about democracy ... it is about ramming something down our throats whether we want it or not.
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