"The word 'shall' appears in the bill 3,425 times!"

[jenmito]

The "stats" on the Dems.' healthcare plan is all I hear from the Repubs. Al they can complain about is the size of the bill and the number of times a word appears in it. If they're able to figure out the number of times ONE word appears in a 1900-page bill, shouldn't they ALSO figure out a way to READ the bill? They look so petty talking about the size of the bill rather than the content.

[gateley]

1. At least it's better than "should" nt

[FrenchieCat]

2. They need to shut the fuck up and start reading the bill......

because if it is that many pages, they need to get going with the reading,
so they'll know what in the hell they are talking about...

Their job is the read the bill, not to complain about the fact that they have to read the bill!

Someone need to tell them why they get paid....and it ain't to cry. Geeze!

[jenmito]

10. Exactly. n/t

[PurityOfEssence]

3. You'd think after the first thousand they'd look it up

Reading is fundamental, but apparently not fundamentalist...

[vaberella]

4. Who sat there and counted?! Good God. n/t

[hileeopnyn8d]

5. I'm sure they ran a word search on the PDF nt

[jenmito]

8. Yeah. But WHY? They SHOULD be using their time to READ the bill. n/t

[hileeopnyn8d]

16. Where's the fun in that?

If they read the bill, their teabagging protest crowd loses a talking point! At least I think I saw that on their signs.

[vaberella]

9. Huh, this is how behind I am. You can find out how many times it shows up?!

I think I never bothered, so I never knew you could do that.

[hileeopnyn8d]

15. Yes

When you do a search it tells you how many times the word was found, you can also click on each result to see the context.

The search comes in handy to debunk whatever latest crazy email forward or Glenn Beck show hysteria is going around too.

[PretzelWarrior]

18. i've saved a copy of the pdf file and been searching it myself. next task soon....

to show what some of the many INNOCUOUS examples of "shall" are included in that total.

These guys give whole new categories of meaning to douchebag.

[toocoolforschool]

11. the PDF file counted them?

[emulatorloo]

6. Yet they couldn't find one instance of "Death Panels" n/t

[hileeopnyn8d]

7. Okay

I heard this the other day and thought it was a joke! I had fallen asleep on the sofa in front of the TV, and thought maybe I heard them wrong or something!

All I could think is did they also run a search on the word "the"... what about "and"

Yes, they look stupid and petty.

[Cha]

12. They're too stupid to comprehend that's

why they're republicons.

[PretzelWarrior]

13. yeah, well it's a fucking legal document you troglodytes!

buncha fucking whiner/losers. I bet the word THE is in there a lot too.

[shraby]

14. They probably scanned the whole thing, ocr'd it and then

did a word search.

[Justitia]

17. I love it. They pull that number every time. Response: "So what?" -eom