Discussion: GOP Senator: 'I'm Not Going To Say I Read Every Single Letter' Of Our Tax Bill

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smh. The GOP morph’s into the party of “Believe Me” and unicorns.

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Almost 30% NET dissapprovals:

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I know how he feels and sympathize! You look at those handwritten bits and some of those letters are harder to read than others. You can’t judge them by ordinary letters you read every day.

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“I’m not going to say I read every single letter on every single page,

Tim, there are 26 letters in the English alphabet, just name one letter you read, that’s all, just one.

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“I’m not going to say I read every single letter on every single page, because 470 pages, in its last hour, I did not read 470 pages,” Scott said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

Scott said he nevertheless “went through the entire bill.”

“Have I read every aspect of that bill before it was fused together? The answer is yes. We have had the chance over the last three years since I’ve been on the committee to work on every aspect of the bill,” he said, referring to the Senate Finance Committee. “The question that they’re actually addressing is not whether or not you’ve read the bill, it’s whether you’ve read the bill in its current form.”

Trying to make sense out of that hurt my head.

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Scott sure as hell read these words on the memo from the lobbyists to the Rs in the Senate

Scott #_____Opportunity zones.

“Ah ha! Those are words I’m looking for! I’m on board.”

@tindalos “Both parties get lists of promised gifts for our cooperation.”

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Scott has the art of evasion fairly down pat and is lying by omission and misdirection like most politicians do but he is also lying directly when he says that he read the entire bill because he “worked on every aspect” of it in committee over three years because many of the key changes did not happen in committee, they were written behind closed doors over the past few weeks in negotiation for votes and in modifications forced by Senate rules.

NB: Forgot to mention many of the changes were written by lobbyists rather than senate staff and neither Scott nor his Republican colleagues likely saw them before they came to the floor for vote.

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I think he’s saying if you’ve read one bill, you’ve read them all?

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Reading the individual letters really doesn’t help in understanding what the bill says, Senator. I suggest focusing on the words that those letters form.

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“Um, all of 'em, any of 'em that, um, have, have been in front of me over all these years.”

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Opportunity for whom? Bet $10,000 of Mitt Romney’s money Scott claimed it was for minority entrepeneurs, while it ends up benefiting rich white people.

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Another graduate of the CBIA.

Caribou Barbie Intelligence Agency.

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“The question that they’re actually addressing is not whether or not you’ve read the bill, it’s whether you’ve read the bill in its current form.”

Does this flippin’ moron have any idea of just how stupid he sounds (is)???

Yes, Senator Sh*t for Brains(R), the Dems are questioning whether you’v’e read the freakin’ bill in it’s current form. And since you’re not answering that question, the answer would be no. Go back to South Cacaklacky and use that line of BS on them

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And several scribbled in the margins at the last minute. As to his lying - he’s a Republican, it’s a given.

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I think the Unabomber’s screeds were more legible, coherent, and ethical than what the Republicans just assaulted us with.

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“I’m not going to say I read every single letter on every single page, because 470 pages, in its last hour, I did not read 470 pages,” Scott said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

back to Katalina Kicks

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How does one read ‘every single letter’?

Scott is lying, of course.

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Scott did something similar last Sunday on a gas bag fest. Said something full of salad and incomprehensible about supporting Roy Moore and the right side of history.

“So is President Trump on the side of wrong?”

“Well, the President will have to make his own decisions on where he thinks he is and why he’s there,” Scott said. “Partisan politics is very important in Washington.”

Is the president’s moral authority compromised?

“Certainly I don’t think so.”

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