Saturday, May 22, 2010
Government at Work - "Painting"?
They say a little bit of paint can hide a world of sin.
Politicians apparently use these "feel-good" things with the hope that they hide their failure to honor their constituents wishes on the "important" stuff...
Politicians apparently use these "feel-good" things with the hope that they hide their failure to honor their constituents wishes on the "important" stuff...
Jonathan Allen and Jake Sherman describe the activity at Politico.com:
"A routine science competitiveness bill may have crystallized what the House chamber has become at this moment in a frightening political cycle for Democrats: little more than an election-year staging ground.
Over two days, Democrats turned the ho-hum America Competes bill into a 54-amendment marathon — allowing vulnerable incumbents to sponsor dozens of feel-good amendments to tout back home.
Exhausted from a brutal 16-month stretch that produced a health care law, stimulus funding and a climate change bill, House Democrats seem worn out. They’ve clipped their workweek to a 42-hour period from Tuesday evening to midday Thursday, sprinkling a light schedule with long debates on noncontroversial bills that could easily pass without a formal vote. The five-day workweek is long gone."
