Senate Approves the ______Act Of____

An anonymous reader writes "Apparently the Senate was in such a rush to get out of town that it forgot to name an 'important' bill that it passed, so the bill goes to the House as The ______Act of____. That's how it appears in the Congressional Record, though the Library of Congress has it listed as The XXXXXXAct ofXXXX. As for what's in the bill, well that appears to be as mysterious as the name. It was officially announced as a bill to tax bonuses to execs who received TARP money. But then someone simply deleted the entire bill and replaced it with text about aviation security. And then it was deleted again, and replaced with something having to do with education. However, because of these constant changes, many of the services that track the bill have the old details listed. On top of that, Nancy Pelosi called the House back for an emergency vote on this unnamed bill, and anyone trying to find out what it's about might be misled into thinking its about aviation security or something entirely unrelated to the actual bill. And people wonder why no one trusts Congress." It appears that the government's new martial law plans are being passed after all.

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And it costs $$$$$

[tekrat]

Here is Free Billions for Haliburton.. Unfortunately, we can't call it that, so it's the Bill of _____ for _____ . Trust me, this bill is nothing more than Sentators and Congressmen giving themselves and some close friends big raises at our expense, and probably fucking up our lives in some small way.

After all, any bill that actually gets anything done is shot down by one side or the other, so clearly, this is a bill that just gives money away to big companies. Those are the only bills that get passed by both sides.

Bailout Money for San Francisco

[vinn]

I was speaking with our congressional representative last Thursday, Denny Rehberg, and he said the reason for the 'emergency' was that the bill contained $20 million (or something) in "bailout" (his words, not mine) money for San Francisco - Pelosi's home district. I'm not sure if that's true or not, Denny plays A LOT of partisan politics and just likes to stir the pot whenever he can. About 50% of what comes out of his mouth is bullshit, so it's hard to say, but I do think Nancy Pelosi is complete c*nt and it's sickening she won't be voted out.

Obviously

[SnarfQuest]

What's probably happened is that Ms. Obama found this pair of really darling shoes in whatever town she's currently vacationing in, and needs sufficient funds channeled to her so she can make the purchase.

It requires an emergency session of congress, because she needs the funds before some other vacationing monarch buys them out from under her. That would be a political disaster, to see a foreign princess walking around in her shoes! They might even be seen wearing them on TV! With a matching haddbag, even!

Re:Any objections?

[Revotron]

Nice try at trying to argue your overgeneralized talking points. Unfortunately for you, many of us aren't political vegetarians. We want meaty substance, not just cold, empty filler.

So, yes, those talking points might work for a political rally where you already know everyone's on your side, but WHAT the hell do those mean to somebody who doesn't follow Ron Paul religiously?

Re:You have to pass it to find out what's in it

[Nimey]

As Nancy Pelosi said of Obamacare

Thanks for letting me know that I can ignore your hyperbolic opinions.

Re:o rly?

[mmaniaci]

Marriage is a concept with many variations across the world. Why is your variation better than anyone else's? I'm an Atheist so I'm probably out of my league, but my gay, Christian buddies believe they have a right to marry, in a Church, in full view of God and his ominous Spaghetti Tentacles. Are they wrong or just different? Also, why are you fighting against an act that has absolutely no effect on you? You prevent two people from achieving great happiness for no other reason but selfish, faith-induced ignorance.

I just hope some day you'll realize that marriage should follow love, not faith.

Re:o rly?

[canadian_right]

I agree on your marriage rant. When it comes to abortion my view is that full grown women are people, but I'm not sure when a fetus becomes a person, and an embryo certainly is not a person so the adult women who is a person gets to decide what to do with her body and her embryo, not me or you.

Re:Partisan politics is immature bigotry.

[gorzek]

And their little movement didn't exist until there was a black guy in the White House. Funny, that.

Even Clinton didn't get this kind of hate so early in his Presidency--though he did have his share of crazy opponents.

Re:o rly?

[digitalunity]

When I think of hard news, I don't think of the running commentary we call Fox News. I don't dislike them because of their bias, I dislike them because they don't report anything even resembling the truth. They twist everything and take it out of context to make it mean whatever they want.

At least the other news organizations have the common decency to just ignore things they can't spin honestly.

Re:Partisan politics is immature bigotry.

[kryliss]

It's not due to "A black guy" in office. It's due to this "PARTICULAR" black guy.. The same "black guy" that doesn't want any of his past opened up to the public. The same "black guy" who's origin of birth is publicly unknown. The same "black guy" who has appointed several criminals as his czars. Yeah.. that "black guy"! I for one think that a "black guy" could do really good in office.. Just not the current "black guy" in office.