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Since the Texas Legislature is in its once every two year session right now, and four million Texans are pissed off, it will be fun to see if new laws result th
by tacon 6y ago
Since the Texas Legislature is in its once every two year session right now, and four million Texans are pissed off, it will be fun to see if new laws result this cycle.
- Mauricebranagh 6y agoOnce every two years FFS this makes the Handforth Parish Council look Good.
- trentnix 6y agoIt’s not a bug. It’s the best feature.
- Mauricebranagh 6y agoApart from the holding the executive to account part of democracy.
- trentnix 6y agoThe executive can't do much damage if it doesn't have any money to work with.
- Mauricebranagh 6y agoAh that's a "sin of ommision" then
- roenxi 6y agoContinuing my theme from above; if legislators took a 6 month recess after every major crisis before starting to debate it the quality of law would probably be a lot better. Democracies naturally tend to deadlock anyway, stuff everyone agrees on got waved through years ago. Most of the time in session is grandstanding and making a fuss without achieving much. Legislators have a terrible habit of using a crisis to: 1) Make something that was already illegal super-dooper illegal (see: terrorism). 2) Mucking up traditional safeguards against bad government - like evidence requirements, reasonable process, human rights in some cases, debating the legislation, reading the bill before voting on it, etc. In emergencies, legislators are just going to rubber-stamp things technical experts wave under their nose/hand power to some executive. They aren't needed.
- caf 6y agoThat just leaves plenty of time for all the sundry industry lobbyists, gladhanders and sleeve-tuggers to capture all the legislators and their advisors, ensuring the status quo is maintained and nothing ever gets fixed.
- dr-detroit 6y agoAustin should secede