Michigan’s John Conyers should go on the road with Vice President Joe Biden. The words that come out of their mouths are unbelievable. In Biden’s case, its just “Joe being Joe.” Seriously the VP makes Dan Quayle look like a Rhodes Scholar, and yet he gets mostly a pass in the mass media.
Today while having the radio on this morning, they replayed John Conyers gave a little speech regarding the many complaints that people have about congressmen and women not bothering to read the bills in front of them. It basically says why should members of congress and the senate read 1,000 page bills in two days, when they need to consult with lawyers after that to understand what they just read. Here is the quote, then the video on YouTube:
“What good is reading the bill if it’s a thousand pages and you don’t have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?”
Before someone tries to explain it way with the typical, “This is what he meant by that” listen to the disdain in his voice. He fails to understand exactly why he was elected in the first place. It might be the same attitude that landed his wife in hot water as a member of the Detroit City Council in the sludge contract kickback schemes recently.