Conservatives are once again mighty perturbed that laws applying to a complex issue in a nation of 300 million run longer than a 3×5 card.
Why do they fear words so?
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When The Very Hungry Caterpillar and The Pet Goat are the books most closely associated with the GOP preznit, you get used to one page documents.
…said the boy who reads comic books…
I read lots of comics, actually. But unlike the GOP I don’t think theyre reality or that they have too many words.
Once again you’re missing the point about the size of these bills. The reason the size of the bills are called into into question is this: Who the hell reads these things before they vote on them?
That’s the problem. How many frigging times have we seen politicians say, “I wasn’t aware that was part of the bill” or how many times have we witnessed Congress have to go back and write new legislation to undo old legislation that was a total clusterfuck because politicians had no clue as to what they were actually voting for?
THAT’s the issue.
Jay: I love that this is a concern all of a sudden and 2 – your GOPpals aren’t making the more reality based critique you are. They’re just saying golly, they have a lot of pages!
Why do they fear words so? Because if anyone knows how to use and abuse words to forward their agenda, it is the left. You can tell by the sophistry that passes for thought in here, how the left manipulates words and their meanings to appear to be right.
how the left utilizes words and their meanings to
appear tobe right.FTFY
But they’re right, I mean, where are all the pretty pictures in these bills anyway?
This, as with the czar ‘controversy,’ is another of those issues that is only of concern when Democrats are in charge, and then it’s the latest and greatest threat to the republic.
Hey! I’ll have you know comics ( before Rob Liefeld poisoned the well) were a source of great vocabulary. Stan Lee was quite the wordsmith in his story telling, Excelsior, bitches! ( add mine)
Boy the Bible sure does have a lot of words too.
Boy the Bible sure does have a lot of words too.
Maybe this explains why so many shitheel “Christian” conservatives wind up perpetrating vile, un-Christian acts. They’ve never read the Bible! There’s just SOOOO many pages. Who has time for that?
Granted the article you link to is short, OW. But it’s only in the last two sentences that anything is made about the number of pages. Most of it is (legitimately) questioning the “revenue neutral” claim and pointing out (rightly) that once the amendments are gone thru the financial impact is going to end up quite different that what it would be for the bare bill.
But never mind that. In the last two sentences they said the bill is long. THAT’s what we obviously want to be focusing on.
I mean, it’s only folks on the right who nit pick on irrelevant side issues, right?
Sean Thornton: …said the boy who reads comic books…
And the problem with comic books is…?
Frank DiSalle: Because if anyone knows how to use and abuse words to forward their agenda, it is the left. You can tell by the sophistry that passes for thought in here, how the left manipulates words and their meanings to appear to be right.
Yeah! The right never abuses words or uses them to misconstrue things!
They’d never use terms like “enhanced interrogation”, or “Clean Skies Act” for a bill that actually allows increased levels of pollutants, or “death tax”, or such vague ephemera as “The American Dream Restoration Act”.
Nope. Nothing but straight talkers on the right. Every one of them.
(See, Frank. Here’s where the folk here on the left differ significantly from those of you on the right. The left tends to acknowledge when folks on the left are wrong. Not always, sure. But we do do it often. While you on the right insist certain traits exist ONLY on one side. Folks on the right NEVER abuse words. Folks on the left ALWAYS do.)
anti-choice
civil rights will never require affirmative action
the war on terror is gone — where did it go?
and so many, many more
Sean, let us not forget the infamous Gingrich Lexicon.
Um, do legislators not have staff that can prepare, like, memos and shit that would tell them what is in the big stack ‘o confusin’ words they are presented with? It seems to me that the problem is not entirely insurmountable. I know, get a smart intern chock full of book lernin’ and pep to tell you what is in the bill! Complexity is overcome with hard work and smartness, and if you ain’t got it, you can hire it.
Frank DiSalle: anti-choice
civil rights will never require affirmative action
the war on terror is gone — where did it go?
and so many, many more
Yup. When Frank makes a claim that is easily disproved, when you show him how obviously wrong his claim was he’ll respond by
acknowledging he overstated things, uh, continuing to make his claim.wingnut intellectual honesty, ladies and gents
When Frank makes a claim
that is easily disproved, when you show him how obviously wrong his claim was, as it always is, he’ll respond byacknowledging he overstated things, uh, continuing to make his claimspouting idiotic nonsense and being a little bitch.Fixed.