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Your comment is exactly right in identifying the key hurdle: congress. Not the executive branch; congress. Obama would have signed any of these bills as well.
by nostromo 11y ago
Your comment is exactly right in identifying the key hurdle: congress. Not the executive branch; congress.
Obama would have signed any of these bills as well. But there is no bill to sign, because congress doesn't support such a bill.
Replace Obama with Lessig, and you have the exact same impasse we have currently.
Lessig's old plan -- to change congress -- made more sense. But it failed.
- aamar 11y agoObama would sign a clean CFR bill, but he almost certainly wouldn't give up the Medicaid expansion or high top-rate taxes to do it. Lessig probably would strike a deal trading away something big; specifying it as his top priority signals this.