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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.
....when you use taxpayer funds to bail out UPS and the Teamsters Union.
THL phish sticks
The Erosion of Freedom Act of 1984
I am Bennett Haselton! I am Bennett Haselton!
Are there any types of chicanery or parliamentary tricks Pelosi and her minions won't use to try to pass legislation that the public would hate?
Vote the fuckers out.
Sorry to undo all my mods to this topic, but when I saw this blurb of naivety I had to respond.
Votes no longer work in the USA. Votes quit working when JFK was assassinated. From that very moment onward, bullets are worth more than ballots.
The monster's claws/roots now run too deep in the system to be dethroned by simply being out-voted. I've labeled my government officials as tyrants, IMHO, rightfully so. I've told my friends and family my new mantra: "Bullets > Ballots". I am biding my time until I and my fellow Americans can bring arms against the tyrants and fight the GOOD fight.
"Be prepared, son. That's my motto. Be prepared." --Joe Hallenbeck
Apparently, Republicans have now brought yet another fine trolling tradition IRL: blanking! ;)
As one of the 27,000 recently fired teachers in Illinois, I know that this is Democrat backed bill was always about getting money to the States to stave off even more extreme failures in the education systems. There was no question or confusion in the Senate or the House. Even main stream (non-republican) news sources like the NY Times and NPR covered this bill. No thing to see here. Apparently a data entry issue/computer issue is being used as a tool by some one with Republican interests is trying to miss-represent a very good thing being done by our Democrat majority in government.
That the actual text of the legislation is missing is insignficant because, even if we had that, we could not understand it. Laws enacted by congress are incomprehensible, even to the congressmen who vote from them. As Nancy Pelosi said of Obamacare "we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." What she means is that nobody could learn what was in the bill by reading it. Here, for example, is a randomly selected segment of the over 1000 page long ObamaCare act:
Ceci n'est pas une signature.
Kill yourself.
The Rules
Recently I read this news item stating that the U.S. Senate Finance Committee had printed up 4,500 copies of a 452-page document with every single word crossed out.The Senate Finance Committee did this on purpose.It wasn’t the kind of situation where they got the document back from the printer and said: “Hey, Every single word in this document is crossed out!We’re going to fire the zitbrain responsible for this!”No.A 452-page document with all the words crossed out was exactly what the Senate Finance Committee wanted.
This news item intrigued me.I said to myself: There has to be a logical explanation for this.So I called Washington, D.C., and over the course of an afternoon I spoke to, I don’t know, maybe 15 or 20 people, and sure enough it turned out there was an extremely logical explanation: The Senate Finance Committee was following the Rules. As well it should.You have to have rules.This is true in government just as much as in sports.Think what professional baseball would be like if the pitcher could just throw the ball right at the batter whenever he felt like it, or the batter could turn around after a called third strike and try to whomp a major cavity in the umpire’s skull.It would be great.I’d buy season tickets.But you can’t have that kind of behavior in your government.This is why, back when we bombed Libya, the Reagan administration made such a large point of the fact that we were not trying to kill Moammar Khadafy.I think most of us average citizens had assumed, since the administration had been going around announcing that it had absolute proof that Khadafy was an international baby-murdering scumball, that the whole point of the raid was to kill him, and although we didn’t want to see innocent persons hurt, we certainly wouldn’t have minded if say a half dozen fatal bombs had detonated inside Moammar’s personal tent.
So I, for one, was quite surprised when right after the raid, President Reagan himself said, and this is a direct quote: “We weren’t out to kill anybody.”My immediate reaction, when I read this statement, was to assume that this was another of those unfortunate instances where the president’s advisers, caught up in the excitement of planning a major military operation, had forgotten to advise the president about it.But then other top administration officials started saying the same thing, that we weren’t trying to kill anybody, and specifically we weren’t trying to kill Khadafy.you following this?We announced we have proof the guy is a murderer; we announce that we are by God going to Do Something about it; we have large military airplanes fly over there and drop bombs all over his immediate vicinity; but we weren’t trying to kill him.You want to know why?I’ll tell you why: The Rules.
That’s right.It turns out that we have this law, signed in 1976 by Gerald Ford, who coincidentally also pardoned Richard M. Nixon, under which it is illegal for our government to assassinate foreign leaders.So we can’t just hire a couple of experienced persons named Vito for 100 grand to sneak over there one night in dark clothing and fill up Moammar’s various breathing apertures with plumber’s putty.No, that would be breaking a Rule.So what we do is spend several hundred million dollars to crank up the entire Sixth Fleet and have planes fly over from as far away as England, not to mention that we lose a couple of airmen, to achieve the purpose of not killing Moammar Khadafy.We did kill various other random Libyans, but that is OK, under the Rules.Gerald Ford signed nothing to protect them.
OK?Everybody understand the point here?The point is: You have to follow the Rules.Without Rules, you would have anarchy.
And that is exactly why the Senate Finance Committee had to print up 4,500 copies of a 452-page document with every single word crossed out.What this document was, originally, was the tax-reform bill passed by the House of
Funny, I voted for Obama for the same reason. =^_^=