Nitwittery comes in pints?

As you know, when our leaders are trying to show their solidarity with Joe Sixpack, they’re photographed with a beer in their hand. Hillary’s done it. Bill Clinton’s certainly done it (but Dr. J. posits that he actually likes beer), and President Obama’s not only done it, but he invited a Cambridge police officer and a Harvard Professor over for a beer to stick in an attempt to bring moral equivalence to a cop doing his job and a professor acting like an asshat.

The beer summit is the only documented picture of man of the people, Joe Biden with a beer, and all of the pictures show the beer untouched, so that’s a different story. Similarly, the overwhelming documentation of the President with a beer in his hand is either Putinesque overcompensation for a perceived lack of manliness, or a demonstration of a disturbing amount of time spent off the clock. Take your pick.

Dr. J. brings this up in the context of the Obamacare bill, the recent Gang-of-8 Immigration Bill and all of the other 1000 page bills that are passed at the 11th hour with very little room for public debate or discussion.

The recent 1075 page immigration bill clocked in at 24 pounds. That’s comes to 45 pages per pound. Dr. J. would like to make a modest proposal.

Dr. J. suggests that like beer, legislation should be served 12 ounces at a time.* That gives the legislators 34 pages to work their magic, and there’s no excuse that the bill has to be read to see what’s in it.

* While Dr. J. prefers the Imperial pint, for legislative purposes he’s fine getting all Bloomberg on their asses. Twelve ounces only!

Dr. J.