If you thought our Congress-critters couldn't sink any lower . . . Mark Steyn loathes the U.S. Congress even more than you do ("Potemkin Parliament, Pseudo-Legislature"):
I despise the United States
Congress, and not merely for the weeks I had to spend there during the Clinton
impeachment trial: My contempt pre-dates that circus. It dates to the moment I
first realized, as a recent arrival to this land, that when Dick Durbin or some
such is giving some overwrought speech on a burning issue he is speaking to an
entirely empty chamber - because there are no debates, because most of these
over-entouraged Emirs of Incumbistan are entirely incapable of debate: See,
inter alia, Ed Markey.
But the fact that they might as
well be orating in front of the bathroom mirror isn't why I despise it. It's
that the American media go along with the racket, and there's only the one pool
camera with the fixed tight shot so that you can't see the joint is deserted
and the guy is talking to himself. The wanker press is so protective of its
politicians that it's happy to give the impression that a boob like Markey is
Cromwell in the Long Parliament.
I have never seen such rubbish in
the House of Commons at Ottawa or Westminster or their equivalents around the
Commonwealth - and it's a charade in which the media are all-in.
So it's a Potemkin parliament.
That leads easily to the next stage
of decay - for why would a Potemkin parliament not degenerate further into a
pseudo-legislature? The Covid "relief" bill is 5,593 pages. There is
no such thing as a 5,593-page "law" - because no legislator could
read it and grasp it.
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