ENDA’s Game
In which the necessity of a law is politically dismissed because of a massive public misunderstanding by a man with an eerily orange face.
Tagged: legislation
Publius Squared: The Regulatory State, Congress, and Democracy
As many people should know, Obsidian Wings is often a bastion of worthwhile discussion and debate combined with unapologetic opinion in the sea of hackery and straw men that is the political blogosphere. Over...
Is Divided Government More Responsive?
I’m not sure how well Freddie and I addressed the central question of our discussion last night, to wit, how to overcome the institutional problems in our representative democracy. But the discussion about health...
A Realistic Health Care Alternative Going Nowhere
[N/B: See below for a significant update/clarification] One of the criticisms levied at the alternative health care proposals discussed by E.D. and I over the last few weeks has been that these proposals, which...
Practical Steps to Limiting Government: Required Reading Edition
“If companies that are “too big to fail” are too big to exist, then bills that are “too long to read” are too long to pass. This sort of behavior — passing bills that...
Needs More AIPAC!
In comments downblog, Roque Nuevo is looking for something to back up E.D.’s assertion that “No other foreign policy lobby is as active or as strong as AIPAC.” Whatever one’s feelings about American policy...
