Things I’ve Learned About Democrats Since January

Bills should be passed so as to not interfere with vacation time.

“It is an ambitious goal, but it is doable,” Durbin said in an interview last week. “Don’t rule out the possibility of Mondays, Fridays and even weekends as we come to the close, the finish. ... As long as you tell people, ‘This is going to happen, and focus on it. If you don’t get busy and get it done, you can lose part of your August recess’ — it is amazing how much you can finish."

May as well rush it through. They, apparently, will not be read anyways.

“If every member pledged to not vote for it if they hadn’t read it in its entirety, I think we would have very few votes,” Hoyer told CNSNews.com at his regular weekly news conference.

Hoyer was responding to a question from CNSNews.com on whether he supported a pledge that asks members of the Congress to read the entire bill before voting on it and also make the full text of the bill available to the public for 72 hours before a vote.

In fact, Hoyer found the idea of the pledge humorous, laughing as he responded to the question. “I’m laughing because a) I don’t know how long this bill is going to be, but it’s going to be a very long bill,” he said.

And surprise 300 page amendments to bills will be added moments before the vote.

Overnight, House Democrats tacked onto the bill a 300-page amendment.

No matter. The administration won't bother reading them anyways, either.

But I guess it's all okay, cuz, as we all know. It's Bush's fault.