W. Todd Akin: “Well, there are just so many things in this bill to talk about, and that's why you have such old and young, male and…”

“Well, there are just so many things in this bill to talk about, and that's why you have such old and young, male and female--the public just doesn't like this bill. And the reason is because there's stuff for everybody to hate in this bill. I thought that this was an amazing quote Nancy Pelosi said. I just can't resist putting this up here. ``We have to pass the bill to find out what's in it.'' Now what it seems like is going on now is, not only are we supposed to not read the bill, but we're supposed to not vote for the bill. So we want to pass a bill that we haven't read and haven't voted for. This seems to be really twisting the long arm of conscience a little bit to say, not only are you not supposed to read it, but now you can't vote for it, and we still want to pass it. And we wonder why the American public is just a teensy bit skeptical. I think some of the shenanigans are amazing. One of the ideas is, you have to get an assessment as to how much the bill's going to cost. The Government Accounting Office, who is supposed to be impartial, they take a look at a bill, and they go all through it and figure out what they think it's going to cost. Well, one of the tricks that they're playing is that they're going to collect taxes for a bill over a 10-year period, but they're only going to count the bill being in effect for 6 years.”