# 112th Congress already wasting time and money **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 7, 2011, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/112th-congress-already-wasting-time-and-money/566745 "2011-01-07T13:49:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/112th-congress-already-wasting-time-and-money/566745/21 "2011-01-07T20:14:16Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I’m really looking forward to the gutting of regulatory agencies, depletion of Medicare and the robbery of Social Security in order to pay for whatever programs the Pubs want to fund. Wait, what? I thought a bill was required to pass the House and the Senate to become a law. You will never see any of that become law and you know it, except maybe the robbery of Social Security because that’s strictly bipartisan. Personally, I’m all about this. Gridlock the whole shebang. That way when people start coming after them with torches and pitchforks because they’re not getting paid or getting “essential” services they’ll actually have to work together. This is what it’s all about. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/112th-congress-already-wasting-time-and-money/566745/22 "2011-01-07T23:52:38Z")
> [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > Wait, what? I thought a bill was required to pass the House and the Senate to become a law. You will never see any of that become law and you know it, except maybe the robbery of Social Security because that’s strictly bipartisan. > > Personally, I’m all about this. Gridlock the whole shebang. That way when people start coming after them with torches and pitchforks because they’re not getting paid or getting “essential” services they’ll actually have to work together. This is what it’s all about. Hey, I’ve _got_ a pitchfork! Who else is with me? ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2011, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/112th-congress-already-wasting-time-and-money/566745/23 "2011-01-08T00:05:22Z")
> [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > Personally, I’m all about this. Gridlock the whole shebang. That way when people start coming after them with torches and pitchforks because they’re not getting paid or getting “essential” services they’ll actually have to work together. This is what it’s all about. Only time they’ll work together is after the election and for about 2-4 weeks if this last election was any indication. And with the upcoming presidential election on everyones wee tiny little minds, expect a large increase in the amount of bombast and hollow posturing with a just as large decrease in the amount of anything of substance being done. I’d also like to ask everyone to be nice to Boehner. If he cries (again. Seriously. Glenn Beck doesn’t cry this much), his bronzer will run. Do you know what that stuff can do to desktops and carpeting? Bankrupt the whole country (well, bankrupt even farther I suppose) on the cleaning bill. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2011, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/112th-congress-already-wasting-time-and-money/566745/24 "2011-01-08T00:18:35Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > News articles say it was “a protester”. In all likelyhood a Birther, and from the language used, a nice Christian woman. [Confirmed!](http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=248277) [QUOTE=Crazy Birther] Literally if this question of the natural born citizenship, if this question does not get answered, then I am allowing a tyrannical dictator – the spirit of the anti-Christ, the new world order system that has their plans right this second to collapse the U.S. economy, and we know their plan, the new world order system’s plan is to literally destroy humanity. [/quote] ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2011, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/112th-congress-already-wasting-time-and-money/566745/25 "2011-01-08T00:37:11Z")
[checks card] BINGO! ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2011, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/112th-congress-already-wasting-time-and-money/566745/26 "2011-01-08T00:40:45Z")
> [@interface2x](#): > > [Confirmed!](http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=248277) > > > [@](#): > > > > Literally if this question of the natural born citizenship, if this question does not get answered, then I am allowing a tyrannical dictator – the spirit of the anti-Christ, the new world order system that has their plans right this second to collapse the U.S. economy, and we know their plan, the new world order system’s plan is to literally destroy humanity. Heh, I like Obama, but if I had reason to believe he was a tyrannical, economy ruining, humanity destroying, anti-christ, I think I’d focus on convincing the public of that instead of whether or not he was born overseas. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2011, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/112th-congress-already-wasting-time-and-money/566745/27 "2011-01-08T00:51:00Z")
These folks are nuts. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2011, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/112th-congress-already-wasting-time-and-money/566745/28 "2011-01-08T00:57:51Z")
Aww, come on, who hasn’t missed the John Birch Society? really, I got BINGO. look-- anti-Christ, new world order, free space, economy, destroy humanity. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2011, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/112th-congress-already-wasting-time-and-money/566745/29 "2011-01-08T01:04:19Z")
> [@Darth\_Nader](#): > > really, I got BINGO. look-- anti-Christ, new world order, free space, economy, destroy humanity. One line doesn’t cut it. The only way to win Birther Bingo is to get a blackout. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2011, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/112th-congress-already-wasting-time-and-money/566745/30 "2011-01-08T01:06:40Z")
Crap. I was born in Hawai’i, so I guess I’m disqualified anyways. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2011, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/112th-congress-already-wasting-time-and-money/566745/31 "2011-01-08T01:32:20Z")
> [@Darth\_Nader](#): > > Crap. > > I was born in Hawai’i, so I guess I’m disqualified anyways. Fine, for Pete’s sake, if you’re just going to whine about it, you win a certificate of live birth. Now we’re ready to start the next game, _if you don’t mind_. _pointed look_ Thank you. Sheesh. OK, everybody get out your State of the Union bingo cards . . . ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2011, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/112th-congress-already-wasting-time-and-money/566745/32 "2011-01-08T01:56:11Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > Fine, for Pete’s sake, if you’re just going to whine about it, you win a certificate of live birth. Now we’re ready to start the next game, _if you don’t mind_. _pointed look_ Thank you. > > Sheesh. > > OK, everybody get out your State of the Union bingo cards . . . The rightmost column is already filled in. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2011, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/112th-congress-already-wasting-time-and-money/566745/33 "2011-01-08T02:17:44Z")
Scoff all you want, but this congressional reading of the Constitution out loud in its entirety was long overdue and entirely necessary. Had they not done so, they might have forgotten what’s in it and quartered some soldiers in your house. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2011, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/112th-congress-already-wasting-time-and-money/566745/34 "2011-01-08T02:25:32Z")
> [@pravnik](#): > > Scoff all you want, but this congressional reading of the Constitution out loud in its entirety was long overdue and entirely necessary. Had they not done so, they might have forgotten what’s in it and quartered some soldiers in your house. Were you going to draw 'em first or are you lazy? ---
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2011, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/112th-congress-already-wasting-time-and-money/566745/35 "2011-01-08T02:28:24Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I note with interest and disgust this morning that the Pubs exempted the health care repeal from this offset in the new House rules. Coincidentally, the CBO has determined that repealing health care will increase the deficit by $250,000,000,000. Boehner’s comment: They’re entitled to their opinion. Really? What’s your degree in, moron? He double-majored in pomposity and lacrimosity. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2011, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/112th-congress-already-wasting-time-and-money/566745/36 "2011-01-08T02:29:36Z")
What’s a “redacted” version of the Constitution? ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2011, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/112th-congress-already-wasting-time-and-money/566745/37 "2011-01-08T02:30:06Z")
No, it’s hung, then drawn, then quartered. Is anyone in Congress hung? ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2011, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/112th-congress-already-wasting-time-and-money/566745/38 "2011-01-08T02:36:31Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > What’s a “redacted” version of the Constitution? They did not read the parts of the original Constitution that have been superceded by amendment. Such parts include 3/5ths of a state’s slave population being counted towards Congressional representation, how a Vice-President and Senators are elected, the beginning date of the President’s term; shit like that. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2011, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/112th-congress-already-wasting-time-and-money/566745/39 "2011-01-08T03:03:10Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > They did not read the parts of the original Constitution that have been superceded by amendment. [Sort of](http://www.slate.com/id/2280249/pagenum/all/#p2), anyway. As that column points out, they left in some language about taxation that was superceded by the 16th Amendment. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2011, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/112th-congress-already-wasting-time-and-money/566745/40 "2011-01-08T03:10:34Z")
> [@MEBuckner](#): > > [Sort of](http://www.slate.com/id/2280249/pagenum/all/#p2), anyway. As that column points out, they left in some language about taxation that was superceded by the 16th Amendment. Huh. That’s interesting, and amusing that they read the repeal of Prohibition but not the enactment of it. Personally, I think they should have read every word. Sadly, nobody asked me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/112th-congress-already-wasting-time-and-money/566745.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/112th-congress-already-wasting-time-and-money/566745.md?page=3)