Everybody on the right is getting their panties in a wad about Nancy Pelosi ripping up her copy of Trump’s State of the Union address. Well, not everybody. I’m not.
You see, I think this should become a trend.
Think about it. Somebody stands up in Congress and gives some papers to the Speaker of the House. The person reads it, then the Speaker of the House rips it up.
Imagine if that was a bill.
“Madame Speaker, I present to you my proposal that the government get involved with the regulation of the color of vacuum cleaner bags. We cannot allow this plethora of colors of vacuum cleaner bags to continue to cause confusion among the American consumer when having to choose between beige, taupe, off-white, and light grey. My proposal would allow for the creation of the Department of Vacuum Cleaner Bags with oversight authority on all such items manufactured in or imported into the United States and offered for sale to consumers.
I also present my accompanying proposal that covers industrial vacuum cleaner bags and ensures they conform with the standards set forth by the E.P.A. and the United Nations Climate Neutral Strategy.
I also present my accompanying proposal to increase funding to the United Nations specifically for its Climate Neutral Strategy.”
Tell me, would you be upset if the Speaker then ripped it to shreds?
It should be the duty of the Speaker of the House to rip up everything handed to her (or him, once things right themselves). If that means a presidential speech or two gets ripped up in the process, that’s the price we have to pay.
I’m hoping for Herbert’s Bureau of Sabotage.
And of course my own Department of Redundancy Bureau.
The Dept of Redundancy is a bureaucracy dedicated to firing bureaucrats in other departments when they get all mission creepy.
The Redundancy Bureau makes sure the Dept of Redundancy doesn’t get all mission creepy.
Having a bureaucracy dedicated to firing other bureaucrats would be all about Teh Awesome.
You do realize they would probably appoint a committee to oversee the choice of paper shredder to be used to destroy all stupid bills and will end up spending millions of dollars and years to decide to spend tax payer money on like a $2 million industrial level shredder made in China.
….that actually cost about a $150.00 to produce. Yes I can easily see that happening.
Reminds me of a patient I once treated. She would just sit around the house and tear paper.
It’s only fair Pelosi ripped it up into toilet paper….. She’s going to need if after Trump’s speech ripped her a new a$$hole.
If Pelosi was still an American, she would have done that ten years ago to the misnamed Affordable Care Act.
Could have named it the We Can’t Afford to Care Act.
This is the bill that will convert the state hospital for the insane into the William J. Le Petomane memorial gambling casino for the insane and if you rip it up I’ll tear you a new one. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have a meeting with my beloved secretary Miss Stein.