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When did this become ok and considered normal? I guess politicians feel that they can do anything they want without being held responsible. And in this administration, that is true!
When did this become ok and considered normal? I guess politicians feel that they can do anything they want without being held responsible. And in this administration, that is true!
When did this become ok and considered normal? I guess politicians feel that they can do anything they want without being held responsible. And in this administration, that is true!
When did this become ok and considered normal? I guess politicians feel that they can do anything they want without being held responsible. And in this administration, that is true!
When did this become ok and considered normal? I guess politicians feel that they can do anything they want without being held responsible. And in this administration, that is true!
When did this become ok and considered normal? I guess politicians feel that they can do anything they want without being held responsible. And in this administration, that is true!
When did this become ok and considered normal? I guess politicians feel that they can do anything they want without being held responsible. And in this administration, that is true!
Ya mean like Obamacare and the Immigration bill?
Those would be the two latest examples.
The Bill of Rights fits on one page, and is without a doubt the most significant piece of legislation ever passed. If Congress were to re-write it (Heaven forbid!) it would require a fork lift to haul it around, no one would have a clue what it said, and it would wind up costing a billion dollars a minute.
And brevity would preclude stuffing it with all manner of unrelated goodies designed to advance an agenda or a career that would draw unwanted attention.
Absolutely. What is really needed is a bill that prohibits riders that have nothing to do with the actual bill under consideration.
But, of course, Congress would have to be the ones to pass such a bill, meaning it would be another fork lift load (or perhaps just a load) that meant nothing and probably included a half dozen bridges to nowhere and a few other riders that would never have passed on their own merits.
When did this become ok and considered normal? I guess politicians feel that they can do anything they want without being held responsible. And in this administration, that is true!
Its normal because most voters are either ignorant of the fact our elected officials do not do their their job to read the bills or the ones who do know our elected officials don't read the bills think it is fine.
I did a poll almost 4 years ago and you would be surprised about how many people think it is okay to vote yes for a bill that they did not read.
http://www.debatepolitics.com/polls...read-bill-themselves-before-signing-them.html
When did this become ok and considered normal? I guess politicians feel that they can do anything they want without being held responsible. And in this administration, that is true!
e.g. another thread (confession: my thread) notes that the immigration bill has some Bernie Sanders stimulus spending as well as some language that says Janet Napolitano can do whatever the hell she wants regarding deportation or immigration status cases.
Perhaps the congress should automatically reject any bill that has more text than the constitution itself.
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