Kent Conrad's Arrogant Remarks

Two Representatives from opposing parties, Brian Baird of Washington and Greg Walden of Oregon, have proposed a bill to require a 72 hour waiting period before Congress can vote on any non-emergency legislation. Such bills would be posted, in final form, on a publicly-accessible website for a minimum of 72 hours before Congress could pass such bills.

Predictably, Frisco Nan Pelosi has shunted the bill aside. It now lays in a limbo from which it will not exit, unless a discharge petition is signed by 218 members, or a majority of the House. Nan has placed aides of the Democratic House leadership on the floor to intimidate members from signing the petition.

This is all bad enough. But it gets worse. Much worse.

We've all seen, by now, Michigan liberal Democratic Representative John Conyers famously admitting, on camera, that he had no intention of reading the stimulus bill. That it would take him and two lawyers more time to read it than he had before the vote.

Thus, the two Representatives' proposal.

But liberal doofus and Senator from North Dakota, Kent Conrad, weighed in on the matter. Remember, this is one of the guys who received favorable treatment from Countrywide Credit's
Angelo Mozillo, but denied he knew of it. Never the less, Conrad helped make it very easy for Countrywide to participate in the process that gutted residential real estate finance last year.

Conrad, according to the Wall Street Journal, claims that Baird's and Walden's proposed bill won't matter because,

"only 5% of Americans will be able to understand the legalese in bills."

The Journal quotes Politico as quoting Conrad further saying,

"Anybody who thinks that is going to be transparent to the American people is really not telling it like it is."

Can you believe Conrad's nerve?

Maybe we voters don't want Congress writing bills we, their paymasters, don't understand.

Maybe we don't want Congress passing laws for which we will all need to hire attorneys to determine when and how we will be in compliance.

It takes a pretty arrogant public service to essentially say that it's not worth trying to let voters understand the laws their elected legislators pass. That few care, and few could possibly understand these matters, anyway.

Boy, I wish I were running against Conrad in his next election. I can't believe North Dakotans want to return a Senator who is so arrogant, grafted-up, and pompous.