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Re: New Laws in Oregon - "Land of the Legal betatest"
On 22 Jun 1997, Steven L Baur wrote:
> > You've completely missed my point. This would be an on-going problem.
> > Congress can only function with some idea of compromise in it.
>
> Then Congress should be eliminated. There is no excuse for the CDA
> rider and my (now ex-)representative who voted for that bill was
> voted into office on a campaign of ending politics-as-usual sorts of
> things like that.
Look at it this way: If you want some bill passed (some spending bill or
such) it has to get out of the Senate. the senate can easily pull a
filibuster with a minority of the Senate, and shutdown the government
entirely. If you really eliminate a sense of compromise on issues, you're
hamstringing the government. It's really one of the fundamental things
that is required to make a constitutional republic such as we have work.
Remember, the founding fathers went way way way out of their way to make
sure that this was not simply a majority rules country. Rather, the best
description I've heard of it is a "majority rules with minority rights"
(filibuster, etc..)
> Right now I have two senators: Dianne "No problem giving government
> contract money illegally to my husband" Swinestein and Barbara "No
> money in my checking account? I guess I'll just have to write another
> one" Boxer and congressional representative Walter "I cannot think of
> any government program which should be eliminated" Capps.
> The American government is broken.
You have a better method? Let's hear it.
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