Anonymous: Excellent points. My back of the envel...

2009-02-25T08:55:00.000-08:00

Anonymous: Excellent points. My back of the envelope math shows you would need to read just under 6 pages a minute for three hours straight to have read it by noon if you started at 9am.

And keep in mind this isn't easy reading material either, this is complex Washington-ese.

Shame on them for having voted on a bill they obviously hadn't read.

Doesn't the fact that this is even necessary point...

2009-02-24T21:13:00.000-08:00

Doesn't the fact that this is even necessary point out that our government is transparently corrupt and oblivious to either the 'crisis' or constituents?

Not a single Nevada elected official who voted for this bill admits to having read it. Not one. But they all are bragging about specific pork they are trying to take credit for getting for Nevadans. Some 'emergency', huh? And everybody in Nevada knows that $8B for that train from LA couldn't happen any faster than they built Yucca Mtn but it just HAD to be in the bill so that we could create jobs (for people doing environmental impact studies, apparently).

Of the three Nevada politicians who voted for this bill, only two of them had staff who were willing to admit this one fact publicly - the calls they were getting where overwhelming AGAINST voting for this spending spree. Titus' office admitted that it was something like 50-100 to 1 in favor of voting NO and the calls after the conference report came out where twice as negative. Yet, Dina Titus claimed to have started reading the bill at 9am and then voting at noon 'AYE'. She read 1073 pages in three hours. No explanation was offered other than that she 'must be a really fast reader' to quote her receptionist.

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Anonymous: Excellent points. My back of the envel...

Doesn't the fact that this is even necessary point...