I'm Giles Bowkett. This is where I post random things that are too small for my main blog and too big for Twitter.
here’s how the game is played. first, you refuse to sign the bill unless it’s got some bullshit amendments in there for you personally, as well as a complicated system to avoid a bunch of “fears” that you’re not really even concerned about. then, when the bill comes back to you how you asked for it, you refuse to sign it because it’s full of all these pork-barrel amendments and complicated systems to avoid nonexistent risks. if you’ve really got balls, you even point out that the bill has way too many pages. no-one will ever calculate how many of those pages are in there because you demanded them.