DEMS HIRE FAST READER TO BURN THROUGH 948 PAGE BILL IF NECESSARY

When Congressional Democrats tried to ram through the 1,100-page “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009,” they took heavy fire from Republicans over the fact that they allowed legislators only a few hours to actually read the bill before voting on it.

So when House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) introduced a 948 page “Climate Change” bill this week, he went out of his way to avoid similar criticism by hiring a speed reader to burn through the pages if necessary.

Of course, it wasn’t meant to be serious and Democrats instead looked like a bunch of immature jackasses. But that’s how they roll.

Plus, if Republicans had asked that the bill be read aloud — which they could have — it would have cut the reading time down from weeks to days or even hours.

But just how long would it have taken?

The folks at Fox and Friends attempted to find out by bringing in the world’s faster reader (so they claimed). Check it out:

According to host Brian Kilmeade, she was burning through one page every 20 seconds. At that rate, it would take her roughly five hours and 15 minutes to get through the entire bill.

“Why does a bill need to be that long,” asked host Gretchen Carlson?

I don’t know. Especially one on climate change.

Maybe if Congressional Democrats can quit acting like morons they could answer that question. Until then, the speed reading will likely continue.

Unfortunately, this legislative garbage cleared Waxman’s committee Thursday. If only anyone knew what was in it.