flipper wrote:
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:14:36 -0700, Jim Thompson
wrote:


Quotation of the day...

"Let me remind you this has been going on for years. We are bringing
it to a halt. The harsh fact of the matter is when you’re going to
pass legislation that will cover 300 [million] American people in
different ways it takes a long time to do the necessary administrative
steps that have to be taken to put the legislation together
_to_control_the_people_". John Dingell

...Jim Thompson


And now you know why public opposition didn't count for bean fart.

Public opposition was to the previous administration who were thrown out on their ears - and rightly so if I may venture ;-)