Sounds like a large serving of sour grapes to me.

This election is over. Garamendi won. Get used to it.

You can have another shot at him next year.

I don’t recall Garamedi saying anything about “reading the vast majority of the 2,000-page bill” although, I do remember him saying that he read a summary of the important parts of the bill.

If you have audio or video of the exchange that suggests that I’m mistaken, I will stand corrected, however until then, I stand by my words!

Regardless of if Garamendi read “a summary,” or “all of the summaries of key sections,” or “the summaries of its key provisions,” or “a vast majority of the bill” itself… that only means one thing to me!

GARAMENDI DIDN’T READ THE ENTIRE BILL THAT HE VOTED ON!

This should be unacceptable to you as an American, as a voter, as a member of the Press, and even as a supporter of Garamendi! Why are you so willing to let him off the hook on something like this?

The Congressional “Summary” that is made available to Members’ of Congress is a 4-page print-out! You can find it here: http://thomas.loc.gov/ (Search “HR 3962″ and click on “CRS Summary”)

Garamendi staffers’ actually had printed copies of that summary located at the table that you were sitting at during the meeting. Did you by any chance take a look at it? If you did, you’d agree with me that someone could not possibly have an in-depth understanding of the entire bill only having read this 4-page summary.

Just because Garamendi has written single-payer, health care legislation (in the past) and was California’s insurance commissioner doesn’t mean that he need not read the entire bill that he is voting on! That’s what’s absurd Lisa!

The 35-year veteran of public office should know better and be held to a higher standard when it comes to accountability in this regard.

A good bill is under 10 pages long and too the point. Any bill that’s hundreds or thousands of pages long should get a No vote out of principle.

That’s not true.

I heard what Garamendi said in response to your question about whether he read the bill. He said that he had read the vast majority of the 2,000-page bill including the summaries of its key provisions.

Whatever your opinion about his vote in favor of the bill, suggesting that he was uninformed about its contents is absurd. He has written single-payer, healthcare legislation and was California’s insurance commissioner for eight years. Other lawmakers may well have voted without knowing the details but I doubt Garamendi was one of them.

The federal government reported the budget worse than last October by $20 billion with a deficit of $176.36 billion for the MONTH. That used to be considered a decent deficit target … for an entire YEAR. This year’s deficit will be larger than all 8 years of George Bush COMBINED.

There is little wonder why gold has gone from under $800 last year to over $1100 now. The devaluation of the dollar has begun.

Garamendi’s glib comments that are smoothed over by this report won’t paper over a sinking ship.