Can someone explain what I just watched? As fun as it was - What was the purpose of him starting, just so they could interupt him and make him stop?

*Law

OK, Lets try again... Come-on sifty... *Law

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When someone sues without any good reason, simply to waste the other person's time, he's usually obligated to compensate them somehow, at least for the time which he wasted...

At least they had the sense of backing off as soon as they realized it would take about 20 minutes to get past the bill this way.

It's time for a revolution folks.

Clearly our congress has time to fuck around while the real working folks are getting laid off and losing their homes. Congress should be ashamed of this bullshit. I pay them to fix shit, not to run a fucking circus.

The more I hear Jesse Ventura, the more I agree with him. Mind you, he's got some whacko ideas about 9/11, but aside from that I feel he's probably the smartest politician out there right now.

^ Let's not call for violence just yet.

There's a huge mass of rules about how the legislature can operate, and for good reason. On an ordinary day, the congresspeople will agree by unanimous consent to dispose with a lot of the more tedious requirements in the rules, like reading the bill.

When you're in the minority, assuming you want to be a bunch of obstinate obstructionist jerks, you can stop agreeing to the unanimous consent, and actually force Congress to jump through all the hoops the rules call for. Like reading a 946-page bill, and offering over 400 amendments.

The problem isn't Congress as a whole, it's the asshats in the Republican party.

So as part of the usual rough and tumble, Democrats figured if there wasn't any way for them to sidestep the procedural roadblock, they'd at least hire a speed reader to cut down on how much time gets wasted reading the damn thing.

Fortunately Republicans chickened out at that point, but they still wanted to give a demonstration of their Weapon of Mass Exposition.

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