READ our bills before voting?! It is to laugh.

So says Democratic House Majority Leader Hoyer. Or words to that effect:

“If every member pledged to not vote for it if they hadn’t read it in its entirety, I think we would have very few votes,” Hoyer told CNSNews.com at his regular weekly news conference.

Hoyer was responding to a question from CNSNews.com on whether he supported a pledge that asks members of the Congress to read the entire bill before voting on it and also make the full text of the bill available to the public for 72 hours before a vote.

In fact, Hoyer found the idea of the pledge humorous, laughing as he responded to the question. “I’m laughing because a) I don’t know how long this bill is going to be, but it’s going to be a very long bill,” he said.

He says it's okay because the staff members read the whole thing, and members read 'substantial' portions.

But I think it's a white hot light on just all that is wrong in Washington that he cannot take such a requirement seriously.

The political class obviously views itself as quite superior to and separate from the rest of us. The more we know about their bills, the more they know we'll want them fixed- and I don't mean a politics as usual Chicago fix.

Transparency, much? They think not.