Not much of a stunning revelation about the president, but Congressional leaders Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Harry Reid (D-NV) are taking it too far:
While most Americans normally ignore parliamentary detail, with health care looming, voters are suddenly paying attention. The Senate is expected to vote on a health bill in the weeks to come, representing months of work and stretching to hundreds of pages. And as of now, there is no assurance that members of the public, or even the senators themselves, will be given the chance to read the legislation before a vote.
“The American people are now suspicious of not only the lawmakers, but the process they hide behind to do their work,” said Michael Franc, president of government relations for the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank.
The public should be given time to scrutinize the health care reform bill. The president may not want to read it, the Democrats in the House and Senate may not want to read it, but I know for certain that there are plenty of concerned citizens, moms and dads, college students and working professionals, business owners and operators, who would want to dig into the details of this bill.
If this bill is rushed through again, the Democrats will see nothing but red in the coming years.
