Uninformed

A line in Grimp's last post reminded me of something I read yesterday.

And while they [politicians] remind you how you are unengaged and uninformed...

I find this interesting and ironic. Literally no member of congress read the entirety of the porkulus bill. It was too big and rushed out the door too fast for anyone to read it. It was rushed because Mr. The One and his friends said it had to be rushed, the economy was going to collapse tomorrow if it wasn't passed, strike while the iron is hot, etc etc. As Grimp said, look where it's gotten us. The dire emergency wasn't really averted or helped at all by rushing a crap piece of legislative pork out the door.
The health care bill is another matter. There is no, literally no, excuse for rushing a health care bill. Health care costs cannot be definitively shown to significantly impact or be a danger to the US economy. The economy is certainly not in danger of collapsing again tomorrow (or next week or next month or in six months) if Our Politicians don't do something to radically overhaul the health care industry.
I bring up the stimulus bill and the health care bill for one reason: Steny Hoyer's honesty.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said Tuesday that the health-care reform bill now pending in Congress would garner very few votes if lawmakers actually had to read the entire bill before voting on it.

“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. (via cnsnews.com)

Unengaged and uninformed. Yep. That describes Washington to a "t".