Remember all those Republicans and Blue Dogs hefting health care legislation in the air to emphasize its weight? Once you stop enlarging the print and double-spacing it, the Senate health care reform bill comes in at just 209 pages. Both House and Senate bills are still shorter than the Constitution of Alabama, currently 357,157 and 798 amendments long (estimate).
Really, I just want to see Artur Davis hammer Roy Moore with this in a debate next year. Alabama’s Republicans think that gigantic, Jim Crow-era document is just fine, what with all its regressive taxation and corporate loopholes. But when you’re reforming one-sixth of the American economy, 209 detailed pages are unacceptable?
