Examiner Editorial: Closing the books on the worst Congress

Examiner Editorial: Closing the books on the worst Congress

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Americans can give thanks in this Christmas season for an end to the reckless and destructive 111th Congress. This is the Congress that passed Obamacare, against the wishes of a substantial majority of the public, on Christmas Eve of last year. In the dead of night, Democratic lawmakers stuffed the monstrous 2,700-page bill with special-interest goodies and political payoffs like the "Cornhusker Kickback" and the "Louisiana Purchase." As we have learned since, most members were still ignorant of the bill's contents three months later, when it gained final passage in the House. No surpri

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It has become common practice to write bills before a party takes control of some governmental body and then ram them through the legislative process like there is no other option. The persons writing the bills are never mentioned or referenced, and the politicians being ordered to vote for them have rarely even read more than the name of the bill and the letterhead.

This type of government has us rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, and has become an undeniable and hardly beneficial aspect of U.S. Politics both home and abroad.

If we know what we are going to do, before we are able to do it, that would show in a sane world some sense of foresight. In the reality we are all unfortunately living in today, it is a total perversion and reversal of those very ideals.

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The article is not surprising coming from a conservative newspaper. ...and what about the 110th congress? I guess when the conservatives had the majority then, they didn't rubber stamp every republican sponsored bill through the house? The U.S. is in this economic mess because of both parties.

Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., remarked, "No one will know until this is actually in place how it works. But we believe we've done something that has been needed for a long time. ..."

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I'll be glad to see him go. I will have to agree with the article.

Just some questions, if someone votes on something they do not understand does their vote have any meaning? If the bill passed just on a sales pitch then is it the sales pitch that was approved or the bill?

We will learn the ramifications of their idiocy.
That is what Piglosi meant.