miles wrote:
>
> > Gee wow. Does anyone read the legislation that is passed and signed.
> > Now I know that Congresscritters & the President are far to important to
> > pay attention to this kind of detail but don't they have hordes of high
> > priced staff.
>
> There is no way a president can read in its entirety every bill that
> crosses his desk.
Sure they can. They are just too busy schmoozing and politicking to bother
reading the things that come across their desk.
IMO, the problem is the politics behind some of those bills. Rather than
having bills dealing only with new legislation or amendments to specific
existing laws, there is a tendency toward omnibus bills, creating new laws and
amending other, non related legislation as a result of arrangements to vote in
favour of certain things provided the other guys vote for something they want.
The thing is that when the president, governor, mayor or whoever signs a bill,
it should mean that they read it, agreed with it and approved it. The very
least they could do would be to have a reliable aide pr cabinet minister to
brief the president on the contents. In the case of the passport issue, Bush
claimed that he didn't know about the new requirements that would result from
the bill that he signed. Considering that it involves revoking a long
standing exemption for passports from neighbouring countries, it's not exactly
a minor detail.
> Same for Govenors. Thats what the staff is for.
> Dunno if they're all high priced though nor competent. That goes for
> any party, rep, dem or whatever rather than the OP's attack of Bush or
> Reps only. They're all politicians.
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