- It will take months to decipher this new blizzard of laws, penalties and handouts.
- We'll be hearing horror stories long after the victory laps end.
“In politics, stupidity is not a handicap,” Napoleon reputedly said more than two centuries ago.
Boundless ignorance is also not a handicap, as Congress demonstrated Monday night by approving a 5,593-page bill with no time to read it.
The usual suspects are indignant at the sloppy procedures propelling $2.3 trillion in federal spending, including a last-minute $900 billion deal for COVID-19 relief.
But reckless legislating has been standard procedure on Capitol Hill for almost three decades.
Democratic Sen. David Boren of Oklahoma observed in 1991 that congressional “bills are five times longer on the average than they were just as recently as 1970, with a far greater tendency to micromanage every area of government.”...Read all.
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