Feb 16th 2013, 19:33:09
While congress is in "gridlock" as you say. That is exactly why this system was setup the way it was.
It has been disgustingly abused by backroom deals and pork projects and "ill sign this if my district is exempt" that is not how our system was set up to run.
all of these people that cry about nothing getting done in washington, thats how it is supposed to be. it is supposed to be almost nothing getting done, because it is suppoed to VERY difficult to pass anything.
the theory behind this is that the very few things that pass are all very good bills that after getting revamped and changed in both houses then debated on and changed some more, are all good bills, they arent they die. this whole notion of passing stuff as a partisan bill without reading it or caring what is in it is what got us into the mess we are in now.
Surely what a man does when he is caught off his guard is the best evidence as to what sort of man he is. - C.S. Lewis