January 8, 2023
Strange how the media didn't notice a 'dysfunctional Congress' until just now
By Jack Hellner
As speaker, Nancy Pelosi ran the House of Representatives like a fiefdom, and the media cheered. They marveled at her power.
They didn't operate under regular budget rules with individual appropriation bills. Instead, they had omnibus spending bills stuffed with garbage that have contributed to massive deficits and $32 trillion in debt as they pretended new spending was paid for.
The bills were prepared outside the view of most members of Congress, and few read the bills before they were voted on. On Obamacare, Pelosi told her subjects they must vote on the bill before they had a chance to read it. How would the media like it if their employers required them to sign agreements before they were allowed to read them? Would it be OK for banks to require borrowers to sign the loan agreements before they read them?
And that is supposedly what the people should want. Threatening to close the government every few months and cramming down multi-thousand-page spending bills is dysfunctional.
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