Senators add 1,190-page amendment Friday, brag that you'll have 75 hours to read it before senate vote

Imagine watching a video of a horrible auto accident, in slow motion.  One vehicle is an SUV with 8 kids in it, and they're wiped out by a drunk who runs a red light, killing or horribly injuring all aboard.

You know how it will end but are forced to watch each frame.

That's how I feel as the U.S. senate gets ready to vote on the immigration "reform" bill today.

Specifically:  Republican senator Bob Corker helped draft a thing called the "Hoeven-Corker border security amendment" to the laughably-misnamed immigration "reform bill."  The amendment runs 1,190 pages.  The authors of the thing introduced it last Friday--i.e. 3 days ago.

Corrupt Democrat senate majority leader Harry Reid plans to bring the whole bill up for a vote today.

But hey, not to worry, citizen:  As the amendment's RINO author helpfully noted on Friday, senators would have a whole 75 hours to read the thing before having to vote.  So, y'know, they'd have a great chance of catching all the little woolyboogers the Dem leadership have slipped into the thing at the last second.

You know, things like the little $100-million-per-year slush fund that will advertise the wonders of Las Vegas to foreign visitors, that an amendment inserted by Harry Reid would rescue from expiration and make perpetual.

Here's Corker's exact quote:

By filing cloture today [Friday] on this amendment it is going to give everybody in this body and in the nation the opportunity to read this piece of legislation for 75 hours before the cloture vote occurs.

And he is NOT being critical or sarcastic.  He's implying this should be plenty of time for GOP senators and their staffs to fully check this piece of shit for ghastly consequences.

If you worked around the clock you'd have less than four minutes to completely read each page, check its coded references to other bills and then try to look for problems.

Less than four minutes per page, when the consequences are trillions of dollars and giving the Dems guaranteed electoral wins for at least the next fifty years or so.

Sounds perfect.

And as far as having enough time for we the people to be advised of ghastly loopholes by a handful of conservative senators, and then being able to let our own senators know what we thought about the bill...hahahahahaha!  Not possible, citizen.  Besides, why should senators listen to ordinary peons anyway, right?

Someone many years ago said people get the government they deserve.  I realize that's a huge oversimplification, since a lot of good, hardworking Americans who didn't vote for any of these bastards or their policies are going to suffer for the majority who did.  I truly feel sorry for you, and your kids.  But at some point, when professional pols on both sides have either sold out or folded to threats of blackmail, policies can no longer be changed by elections.

Originally the law and the Constitution were supposed to catch bad politicians, remove them and jail 'em, but gradually congress and presidents quietly changed the *effective* rules, so that government now ignores both law and Constitution.

Hey, nothing lasts forever.  It was a good run while it lasted.  And from my sea-side home in a delightful country with great people, I'll watch the implosion by satellite.