An Illinois state lawmaker melted down on the state House floor on Tuesday over a pension reform proposal, tossing a stack of papers into the air as stunned colleagues looked on.
State Rep. Mike Bost of Murphysboro unleashed on the Democrats, led by House Speaker Mike Madigan, for not giving them enough time to read over the proposed bill.
"Total power in one person's hand — NOT the American way!" the Republican screamed right before throwing sheets into the air, then batting them away as they fluttered down. "These damn bills that come out here all the damn time, come out here at the last second, and I’ve got to try to figure out how to vote for my people?"
Bost, who's arms were flailing by this point, raged on, "You should be ashamed of yourselves! I’m sick of it! Every year we give power to one person! It was not made that way in the Constitution!"
"I feel like somebody trying to be released from Egypt. Let my people go!" Bost yelled, shifting gears into more biblical territory. "My God, they sent me here to vote for them! To argue for them! But I'm trapped. I'm trapped by the rules that have been forced down our throats."
Then, a sudden calm rushed over him. "Folks," he dramatically whispered. "We live in a democracy, but not here... But not here."
As dutifully noted by The Atlantic, he busted out "the old rap-battle mic drop" trick at the end. Boom!
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Either this cracker can't read or he's too stoopid to have one of his legislative aides read the bill ... you know, like intelligent people do ...
you should watch this again, Mr temper tantrum is mad with the manner in which this bill was present ( he says nothing about content). His whole point is he wanted time to read the bill.
Where have we seen a similar situation, when the dummycrats told us we needed to pass health care to see what was in it. Of course the Democrats haven't passed a budget in over 3 years, they want bills to be passed without the voters knowing whats in it. Because the Dem don't want you to know what they are doing until it to late. Socialism = passive slavery
Chill out dude! Your ranting makes you look like a spoiled child... Typical republican...
Wow! Great theatrics dude!
Maybe he had a gerbil, no its was a Rat up in his rectum.
And maybe the man was actually trying to do his job. The barbed wire that is strung around the necks of our Goverenment Representatives keeps many of them from doing the job that they were elected to do. This fact includes local,state and federal levels of government.
Of course there are many government officials who are like many of you who replied to this POST. They are only there to make 7th grade jokes about things that are not funny and affect other people ,but not themselves.
And when you need them to represent you, your family, your business they will make 7th grade ignorant jokes about your Rights For Representation as a citizen of America.
Perhaps one needs to have an education and to understand how the government of the USA is suppose to work. Then you would understand that what happened here was not a reality show...It has great consequence when our elected officials are kept from doing the job they were elected to do..
"No time to read this legislation then let me tell you how you should vote."
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Echo the comments of the above blogger who focused on the fact that the issue in Illinois with a slight of hand legislative process under the reign of the Illinois Democrat Speaker of the House was very similar to the actions taking by Speaker Nancy Pellosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid fostered the same bad legislative tactics with the passage of the "Unafordable" Health Care Law while Obama had his super majority in the Congress of the United States. Having watched with interest the Committee debates and votes on this unelievably badly crafted piece of legislation that seeks to put the federal government in control of 20% of the nations economy and uses the IRS as a weapon of liberals social cause enforcement, it was pitiful to see debate on major and minor provisions of the proposed legigislation restricted to 15 minutes per side on each issue contested, hardly time for due process of legilators careful scrutiny. In effect, that meant faceless majority party staffers made the legislation, and when it finally came out in a finished form from the back room deals crafted in the House and Senate Cloak rooms for the necessary votes to be garnered to pass, the 2,000+ monstrosity of a bill who many questioned then would be declared unconstitutional was sent out to be digested on an overnight proposal before passage, and many of its provisions were actually left to the officials of the federal government's Department of Health and Human Services to define and put into motion the nitty gritty provisions of enactment, such as the politically charged movement to make the "one sized fits all" federally mandated insurance provisions include copay and deductable free birth control, to include Plan B. abortion controlling prescription medications, as just one example. Of course, there can be no exception to the rule of the faceless government officials, unless one can request an exemption to the provisions, which strangely the primary supporrive organizations that one would think would be accepting of the Democrat Party's social power hungry creation, the Unions, quickly began obraining waivers from the more obnoxious and expensive provisions, while the Catholic Church could not.
Such is the state, that several States Attorney Generals prompted by their legislators and and Governors have united to bring before the Supreme Court the basic auestion of whether the Federal Government violated the provisions of the Constitution and Bill of Rights that left to the States and Individuals certain rights not deliniated to the Federal Government, and also the Catholoic Church dioceses most affronted by the laws heavy handed assault on the teachings of basic tenets of their religion, again in violation of the Comnstition and Bill of Rights. And even now, as States and Employers across the country struggle to make provisions to accept the enactment of the myraid provisions of this poorly crafted and still evolving Law of the Land, the Court is about to rule on its very basic underpinnings as to its Constitutionality, years after its passage.
In the meantime, small businesses and major Corporations, unsure of what their ultimate health insurance of fines that will be assessed if they buck the heavy handed provisions of the enforcedment of the law have taken the prudent course and wait and see, and refuse to plan to expand their operations, not knowing what their costs will be for every future employee kept or added. I guess in their haste to craft and pass this collosal bill, Congress didn't forsee how it just might cripple the attempt to get back our nations business sector back on track, and establish the conditions of growth in our nation's economy that fuels the tax coffers so that the nation can enjoy some of the more critical and legally constituted functions of the federal governent, such as strategic defense and msitenance of a modern Army, Navy, and Air Force, and including defense of our borders from the illegal immigration and possible terrorist inlfitration into our country.
So rant on legislators! The people are with you on this issue of legislative responsible that is so lacking at the state levels and national level today. Especially the Tea Party American Patriots fixing to do something about it all in November.