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> If Congress wants to override this rule, they can hold a vote and do it tomorrow. As elsewhere in the thread, I find this point mostly theoretical. You coul
by smitty1e 3y ago
> If Congress wants to override this rule, they can hold a vote and do it tomorrow.
As elsewhere in the thread, I find this point mostly theoretical.
You could say with an equally straight face that Congress could balance the budget any old time it wants to.
You could also point to some quantum mechanical statistical possibility of a fored bullet passing through its target.
There will be no improvement in the collapsed political situation before us until we get past discussing hypotheticals and set about reform.
- matthewdgreen 3y agoCongress has certain powers; nobody seriously disagrees about this. Congress can use those powers if it wants to: again, nobody here disagrees about this. I think everyone here would also agree that Congress is not very fast or efficient when it comes to using its powers to pass legislation. That’s unfortunate but I guess part of the basic structure of the institution. The only weird thing going on here is that one person in the conversation has pointed all these facts out, but then for some reason thinks it would be awesome to force Congress to micromanage the entire government through legislation rather than explicitly delegating the detailed enforcement to other branches. That’s the part I don’t get. If you’re going to push for Congress to run every element of our vast Federal government, stop providing devastating arguments that undermine your case.
- smitty1e 3y agoYou have stated things that are quite true but which ignore the gravity of the actual federal bureaucracy. The debt, for one example, is so large that it is just a Really Big Number. Do you think that the U.S. Government accidentally created perpetual motion with the Constitution, and that none of the real-world effects outside of those ~4k words matter?