In what has to go down as the most telling piece of buffoonery in 2009 Senator Sanders of Vermont (I) put forward a 787 page amendment to the health care bill currently being debated in the senate. As a tactic to slow down the process the Republicans decided to call for the bill to be read in its entirety on the senate floor (The fact that reading the bill in its entirety is now considered a delaying tactic might be an indication that these ridiculous laws and legislation are already getting way out of hand but that's a topic for another discussion). Senator Sanders, in this clip, request that the bill not be read and when Senator Coburn (R) objects Senator Sanders, against all rules, simply withdraws his amendment (I suppose it wasn't so important after all). See the extended entry for the clip

I guess he didn't want Americans to see all the hard work he put into writing the bill; or maybe he doesn't want people to know what he's trying to do to the country.

The United States Senate is turning into comedy central. Are Americans really that far away from Senator John Stewart?

Exit question: Why in the world did Senator Sanders write a 787 page bill that he knew had no chance of passing only to withdraw it when it was requested that the amendment be read before voting on it.