I just finished reading the transcript of Ezra’s interview with Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.). I thought Senator Alexander’s responses were thoughtful and intelligent … until this:
Ezra: But you liked at least part of it. The Senate health-care bill seems like Wyden-Bennett on the margins. If you were willing to build on Wyden-Bennett, which is a comprehensive solution, why not the Senate plan? Are they so different in theory?
Alexander: I think they are. One thing is you can’t be sure what’s in the Senate bill because it’s 2,100 pages long. You just know there are surprises in it.
In my short career as an engineer, I’ve had to read through the entire datasheet of a microprocessor I never programmed before because my company was switching to that processor the following day. I’ve had to peruse the revision logs and bug notes of multiple versions of memcachedb to figure out that our app was failing because the version of the software we were using could not allocate a memory pool larger than 2GB.
At no point did I say that the problem couldn’t be solved because the documentation was too difficult to understand.
Stop acting like you’re just an average American who finds this stuff to be “too darn complicated”. You’re not an average American. You’re a Senator, a legislator. It’s your job to understand the details and nuances of legislation. Quit complaining and read the damn bill.
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Read. The. Damn. Bill.
I just finished reading the transcript of Ezra’s interview with Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.). I thought Senator Alexander’s responses were thoughtful and intelligent … until this:
In my short career as an engineer, I’ve had to read through the entire datasheet of a microprocessor I never programmed before because my company was switching to that processor the following day. I’ve had to peruse the revision logs and bug notes of multiple versions of memcachedb to figure out that our app was failing because the version of the software we were using could not allocate a memory pool larger than 2GB.
At no point did I say that the problem couldn’t be solved because the documentation was too difficult to understand.
Stop acting like you’re just an average American who finds this stuff to be “too darn complicated”. You’re not an average American. You’re a Senator, a legislator. It’s your job to understand the details and nuances of legislation. Quit complaining and read the damn bill.