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Zorro

(15,722 posts)
Sun Dec 3, 2017, 07:56 PM Dec 2017

Scribbles by Mitch McConnell's Grandchild Accidentally Incorporated Into G.O.P. Tax Bill

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—The version of the tax bill that Republican senators voted for early Saturday morning included scribbles in the margins by Mitch McConnell’s grandchild, the Senate Majority Leader has confirmed.

The scribbles, which the two-year-old drew when his grandfather left a copy of the bill unattended during Thanksgiving, were mistaken by Republican staff members for the work of McConnell himself and were hurriedly incorporated into the bill.

McConnell struck a philosophical note when he disclosed to reporters that the random crayon squiggles were on the verge of becoming the law of the land. “Laws are like sausages—it’s better not to see them being made,” he chuckled.

The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the toddler’s scrawl would add one trillion dollars to the budget deficit and result in ten million Americans losing their homes, but said that the scribbles were the most coherent passage in the bill.

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/scribbles-by-mitch-mcconnells-grandchild-accidentally-incorporated-into-gop-tax-bill

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Scribbles by Mitch McConnell's Grandchild Accidentally Incorporated Into G.O.P. Tax Bill (Original Post) Zorro Dec 2017 OP
Seriously, couldn't the bill be ruled as unconstitutional if the writing was totally no_hypocrisy Dec 2017 #1
What a world in which we live GeoWilliam750 Dec 2017 #2
that was my first thught too DBoon Dec 2017 #4
And the religious right wing insists the scribblings are words from god and must be followed! unblock Dec 2017 #3

no_hypocrisy

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1. Seriously, couldn't the bill be ruled as unconstitutional if the writing was totally
Sun Dec 3, 2017, 08:02 PM
Dec 2017

undecipherable, couldn't be read, and therefore couldn't be meaningfully comprehended and enacted?

unblock

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3. And the religious right wing insists the scribblings are words from god and must be followed!
Sun Dec 3, 2017, 08:09 PM
Dec 2017

And so we will spend $1 trillion on balloons

All kinds of balloons except weather balloons of course....

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