Literacy Test

We dunno if the typist behind this is some liberal symp who's in denial, perhaps so as not to offend morons w/ the ugly truth of their brain-dead existences, or if he really believes it when he says,

The talking point says that a bill currently being debated contains many pages, and therefore must be a bad thing for America.

This is almost always offered by Republicans, in part because they generally think government should refrain from tackling complex problems that might require complex legislation to address, but also, I'm suspecting, because they've just gotten used to saying it, and for some reason Tea Party people seem really into complaining about how long bills are.

It's clear to us (if not Paul Waldman) this is a favorite talking point because the Republican base is functional illiterates/low-information voters whose lips are so strained by the (for them) physical act of reading that when Sen. Mike Lee proclaims something to be 1,200 pages long, he might as well tell his base that the bill is covered in horseshit &/or plague germs, so pronounced is their hatred of reading. And writing. "Dang it, I ain't no pointy-head interlex-u-uhl, & it ain't right our Congresscritters is neither! 'Sides, readin's bad fer yer eyes."

It is hoped by the G.O.P. that eventually their candidates will only need to point at opponents and shout "Her too smart! Me cretin Christian like you, vote me!" to get the base angry & voting.