Saturday, April 28, 2007

Why government does not work

There are many reasons, of course. But one of them is the existence of outrageous practices in Congress, such as attaching totally unrelated amendments to a bill. Why every voter does not threaten to kick out her senator and representative unless this is changed is beyond me...oh, wait...I forgot: Voters are not paying any attention.

Another piece of outrage is the anonymous hold. For example, a senator can anonymously forbid any bill from going forward. The good news is that, finally, the Senate decided this practice was unethical and voted to abolish it. The bad news is that the House has not yet voted on the measure, so, in the meantime, the anonymous hold can still be used.

And someone is using it, via his or her buddy, Sen. Lamar Alexander. For those who like irony, the bill in question is one that would eliminate the paper filing of campaign finance forms, thereby forcing senators to file electronically like everyone else, thereby allowing the rest of us to know what is going on before an election takes place.

But someone does not want us to know what is on those forms. In fact, that someone does not even want us to know who s/he is.

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4 Comments:

That's funny, we were watching a rerun of West Wing yesterday and there was a senator who'd placed an anonymous hold on a bill...

I suspect most viewers who watched that show thought it was made up, the concept sounds so ridiculous.

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