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Democrats are beaming.  They are quite proud of themselves, and they want you to know about it.  What did they do?  Well, they finally got around to learning what was in the health care bill.

They were all House Democrats, boning up on the historic and controversial health-care reform legislation that’s being crafted in their chamber. The rough draft of HR 3200 (“America’s Affordable Health Choices Act”) was unveiled two weeks ago and runs more than 1,000 pages, not counting amendments. Last week the Democrats decided that, if they’re going to try to sell this plan to their constituents, they need to have a better sense of what it says, line by line.

They needed a teach-in.

So their staffers led them through the bill, section by section — from Division A, Title I, Subtitle A, Section 101 all the way through Division C, Title V, Subtitle E, Section 2541.

After a couple of hours the Democrats had adopted a refrain:

“No one’s going to say we haven’t read the bill,” said Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger of Maryland, as he took a break from the closed-door gathering.

Why, what good little representatives they are! Now if we can only get them to wait until after they know what is in a piece of legislation before deciding to “sell” it to the people.

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