Frank Pallone: I will not yield to this monkey court!

[Dwayne Hicks]

Good for your Frank!! These "hearings" are ridiculous. Time to stand up to the teabagger extremists!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/24/frank-pallone-monkey-court_n_4156487.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

[JustAnotherGen]

1. And this is why

I voted for him in the primary in August. That IS Pallone!

[Zambero]

2. Pallone is right on the mark

I predict that these hearings and the longstanding anti-ACA GOP hissy-fit will have unintended consequences for the naysayers.

Four things slow-to-learn Republicans should NEVER do (or face the consequences of doing them):

Shut down the government
Impeach
Allow electronic devices into by-invitation-only deep pocket fundraising events
Lie and deceive, lest the truth come back to haunt them

[proverbialwisdom]

3. Pallone hysterically blocked a perfectly reasonable line of questioning.

Specifically, some 'teabagger' demanded an explanation for the required consent during the application process to "no reasonable expectation of privacy.' Really?

Earlier, some 'teabagger' counted the number of words in the ACA - over 11 billion and wondered why. So do I.

[Dwayne Hicks]

5. What?

Are you seriously defending these "hearings"?

[proverbialwisdom]

6. I'd like the question answered in full and any deficiencies fixed ASAP. Do you claim perfection? nt

[truebluegreen]

8. Your concern is noted.

[Dwayne Hicks]

9. No one is claiming perfection.

These hearings are a joke.

[truebluegreen]

7. As to your second question, for a law as sweeping as the ACA to function

it has to revise every single statute it impacts. That said, I have doubts about your "11 billion words" talking point, given that 1 billion seconds is more than 31 years, and 11 billion seconds is 348.576411 years. I wonder how long it takes to "count" to 11 billion.

But that would certainly explain why "nobody read it."

[JoePhilly]

11. The bill has ~1990 pages, large font, large margins ... 11 billion words, hardly.

[JoePhilly]

10. I've read the ACA ... that word count is nonsense and only a fool would believe it.

[Dwayne Hicks]

4. Too bad

my NJ congressman is Rodney frelinghuysen. We need more Pallones in the house!