# 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:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2011, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/112th-congress-already-wasting-time-and-money/566745/41 "2011-01-08T03:44:31Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > 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. That sounds like how my Social Studies book in eight grade had it laid out. It crossed out everything that was superseded, but left the 21st completely alone. And I think they can’t read the whole thing because some Southern White guy would invariably read one of the racist parts, and it would be offered as their true position in our sound-bite newspapers and news shows. ---
**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, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/112th-congress-already-wasting-time-and-money/566745/42 "2011-01-08T04:20:59Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > And I think they can’t read the whole thing because some Southern White guy would invariably read one of the racist parts, and it would be offered as their true position in our sound-bite newspapers and news shows. I think the GOP finally got a few black congressional members, so they could actually avoid this. Plus, I kinda like the symbolism of having a black congress member read how when the country started out, he didn’t count as a full person. Did they read the bit about the slave trade being protected until the year 18whatever? That technically hasn’t been superseded, though its obviously pretty irrelevant nowadays. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2011, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/112th-congress-already-wasting-time-and-money/566745/43 "2011-01-08T06:19:21Z")
> [@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. Is this certain? It may take 60 votes for the Demos to pass a bill in the Senate, but the Repugnants only need 41 votes. All they need do (and some have already almost said as much) is commit to filibustering _everything_ until the Demos agree to the entire Repugnant agenda and (since this is BBQ Pit) lick their scrufty a-holes clean. ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2011, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/112th-congress-already-wasting-time-and-money/566745/44 "2011-01-08T17:19:09Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > What’s a “redacted” version of the Constitution? “Redacted”: meaning edited. They basically left out the parts stricken out by application of amendments. ---
**Author:** ![Walmarticus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Walmarticus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walmarticus)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2011, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/112th-congress-already-wasting-time-and-money/566745/45 "2011-01-08T17:27:08Z")
Indecently, I wonder if people who want other people to read the Bible are including all the begats? ---
**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, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/112th-congress-already-wasting-time-and-money/566745/46 "2011-01-08T18:25:27Z")
They should have hired a Rabbi skilled at reading the Megillah. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2011, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/112th-congress-already-wasting-time-and-money/566745/47 "2011-01-08T18:50:34Z")
I would totally watch Congress re-enacting [an episode or two](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magilla_Gorilla_Show). But would Mr. Peebles ever find a buyer for them? ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2011, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/112th-congress-already-wasting-time-and-money/566745/48 "2011-01-09T02:31:35Z")
> [@Walmarticus](#): > > Indecently, I wonder if people who want other people to read the Bible are including all the begats? So… you get naked when you wonder that? ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2011, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/112th-congress-already-wasting-time-and-money/566745/49 "2011-01-09T02:53:26Z")
> [@AWB](#): > > As a teacher, when I have the class read aloud, I can conduct it so _everyone who wants to read_ can read at least a paragraph, I have them read from their seats, and I don’t intro each student. A group of 7[sup]th[/sup] graders I taught could’ve gotten through the reading in 1/3 the time. 😛 And _they_ would have made better Representatives than them. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2011, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/112th-congress-already-wasting-time-and-money/566745/50 "2011-01-09T05:17:35Z")
> [@Athena](#): > > What about this whole thing they’re calling their bid to repeal health care: “Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law” > > Why stop there? I think it needs to be called the “Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law brought to us by that Anti-American Muslim Kenyan Negro President and his Pork-Barrel Bleeding-Heart Money Spending Democratic Party who want to set up Death Panels to kill your parents and eat your babies”? Well, that’s just silly. Please. Bunch of pantywaist vegan hippie-dippies? They won’t eat your babies. They’ll just throw them out with the trash. Get your stereotypes straight.😉 ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2011, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/112th-congress-already-wasting-time-and-money/566745/51 "2011-01-09T05:27:00Z")
[QUOTE=Theresa Cao] 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] What? Are they Lizard People? Also, she’s apparently Vietnamese. Way to be crazy, lady, I bet your folks weren’t even Americans when Barry Obama was born. In Hawai’i. To non-lizard people. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/112th-congress-already-wasting-time-and-money/566745.md?page=2)