Pat Roberts Pleads For Three-Day Delay So Lobbyists Can Read Health Care Legislation

[BurtWorm]

Isn't that thoughtful of the old motherfucker?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/23/pat-roberts-pleads-for-th_n_297563.html

(VIDEO)|||Yesterday 9:40 PM|The Huffington Post News EditorsSenate Finance Committee member Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) earnestly pleaded on Wednesday for the committee to delay a vote on its version of health care reform until after the proposed legislation has been up on the committee's website for at least three days.

"The thing I'm trying to point out," said Roberts, "is that we would have at least 72 hours for the people that the providers have hired to keep up with all of the legislation that we pass around here, and the regulations that we pass around here, to say, 'Hey, wait a minute. Have you considered this?' That's all I'm asking for."

Hard to imagine that "the people that the providers have hired to keep up with all of the legislation" means anything other than lobbyists from the health industry.

The statement is odd not only for its candor, but also for the fact that as far as anyone knows, the lobbyists are the ones writing the finance committee's bill to begin with. They should be pretty familiar with what's in there by now.

ThinkProgress caught the quote, and has video:

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/09/23/roberts-72-hours-insurance/

[iceman66]

1. More obstructionist tactics from the party of no ideas.

Anything to try and run the clock . . .

[jaksavage]

2. He could read fast enuf

when it was a Bush bill. energy, patriot, bailout, etc.
Has he lost his glasses, or stuck his head up his ass...

[damntexdem]

3. If he'd stop moving his lips, it wouldn't take him three days.

;-)