In their effort to stop health care reform, Republicans have frequently pointed to the bill’s physical size to indicate its excess.
As Think Progress pointed out, when the debates moved to the Senate, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) made a preemptive strike, using one of the greatest tomes of our time: Harry Potter! On the Senate floor last night the New England Democrat turned the GOPers argument against them.
[The bill] has fewer words than a Harry Potter novel. I don’t think it is too much to expect that members of the Senate should be prepared to leaf through the equivalent of a Harry Potter novel when they are embarked on as significant an effort and endeavor as we are in reforming the HC system.
Here’s the video, courtesy of Think Progress:
