The Cap and Trade bill the House passed last night does not even exist yet

This is unbelievable. The House voted on a bill that is not even a bill yet. It’s still in the development stages.  David Freddoso has the details at The Examiner:

Through a series of parliamentary inquiries, the Republicans learned that the 300-plus page managers’ amendment, added to the bill last night in the House Rules Committee, has not even been been integrated with the official copy of the 1,090-page bill at the House Clerk’s desk, let alone in any other location. The two documents are side-by-side at the desk as the clerk reads through the instructions in the 300 page document for altering the 1,090 page document.

But they cannot be simply combined, because the amendment contains 300 pages of items like this: “Page 15, beginning line 8, strike paragraph (11)…” How many members of Congress do you suppose have gone through it all to see how it changes the bill?

Global Warming is apparently so urgent that we can’t even wait until members of Congress know what they’re voting on.

Was this even technically a legal vote? Is there some kind of technicality or obscure rule that Republicans (not the 8 who voted for the damn thing) could use to void yesterday’s vote since no one voted on a bill but on a nebulous still changing concept?

John at Power Line sums up my feelings perfectly:

The manner in which the Democrats have run the House since taking control in 2007 has been disgraceful.