Whether on a local, state, or federal level, when our legislators vote on laws, one would expect that they have read the proposed legislation and understand what it means.  That seems reasonable, doesn't it?  Well, one expecting such a seemingly reasonable, obvious state of affairs should consider Senator Thomas Carper, Democrat of Delaware.  He was quoted in a recent news story as saying the following concerning the health care legislation proposed by Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT):  "I don’t expect to actually read the legislative language because reading the legislative language is among the more confusing things I've ever read in my life", subsequently describing such language as "arcane," "confusing," "hard stuff to understand," and "incomprehensible."

Senator Carper goes on to state that nobody understands the legislative "gibberish", but take heart:  at least "we are pretty good at understanding the plain English version of the legislation".  Well then.

So let me get this straight:  our national legislature writes such incomprehensible bills in arcane gibberish that even those supposedly in charge of drafting the legislation and voting on it can't understand it.  Yet they expect us to trust them to represent our interests, to make decisions that impact our lives every day, to make choices that individuals and families are no longer allowed to make for themselves? 

And these are the people who "represent" us?

Completely unacceptable.