"'If we actually read these bills, then we would know the specifics about billions of dollars of pork barrel projects for all of our districts,' she said. 'And of course some unnamed Congressman would start leaking this to the media and, before you know it, Americans would start believing that the federal budget is just an elaborate scheme to defraud taxpayers of their hard-earned money in order to fund local projects that local citizens have already decided aren't worth the money. Our whole system of power...or rather, of democracy, would collapse.'"Maybe our own Senator, Russ Feingold, could be a co-sponsor. He continually said he read the entire Patriot Act, so I'm sure he reads every bill. Right?
"As the time is short, I will leave out all the flattery, and retain all the criticism." - Henry David Thoreau
Wednesday, November 24, 2004
Required reading?
While ScrappleFace is parody, it sure makes more sense than reality sometimes:
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