The Reconciliation Act of 2010 sits before us now, a 2309 page .pdf file chocked full of Therefors and Wherebys and a whole slew of legalese; one piece referencing another. Even if you have a law degree, there’s no way you’ll know what it all means and how (or IF) it all works together. In short, even legislators are going to have to take each others’ word for it. But that all assumes that any of them will have or will take the time to read it.
72 hours of “transparency” means over 32 pages per hour — if they don’t sleep, eat, shower, cross-reference the spaghetti-code, or think about what any of it means or how it all supposedly fits together. The reality is that there is barely time to read it all, never mind the hope of catching mistakes or misunderstandings. There is certainly no time to analyze it, to ponder, to decide… and yet the House is expecting to vote?