Simple Men Who Write Simple Laws

Vanity

[WriteOn]

Remember Mr. Smith Goes To Washington? What offends the American people more than anything else, isn't the content of the laws being made. What offends the American people, is the audacious chicanery and immorality in lawmaking today. McCain-Feingold completely missed the mark. Why? Because what needs reform isn't the interests of lobbyists, but the process by which someone like Alcee Hastings can say, "There ain't no rules." Or by which someone like Harry Reid, can gut a bill and by amendment substitute a completely unrelated bill in wanton false pretense.

The resulting monstrosities that are created by unless amending of unrelated wish lists give us earmarks, inaptly named bills, complexities that enable lawmakers to say they for it and against it at the same time. In essence, they create lies out of wholecloth through the legislating process.

What we need are simple men who don't create monsters and chimeras, who don't compromise with the devil to get their earmark amendment.

We need fewer lawyers and better men. We need more Mr. Smiths to go to Washington.

[Uncle Ike]

” What offends the American people more than anything else, isn’t the content of the laws being made. “

Oh, I dunno.. The content of virtually every piece of legislation passed in the past 20 years or so has been offensive to some extent....

Just sayin’....

[jrd]

you mean something like this ...
The Original Thirteenth Article of Amendment
To The Constitution For The United States
http://www.amendment-13.org/

[AngryJawa]

We need fewer lawyers and better men.

Amen to that.

Lawyers are apparently drawn to become legislators for the sole purpose of writing laws in a language that the majority of the people cannot understand; thereby necessitating the hiring of LAWYERS for something that should be straightforward and easy for Joe Six Pack.

They feather their own beds at taxpayer expense.

[ClearCase_guy]

Good legislation should be less than 10 pages long. If a bill is 2,400 pages long, then it's not a law -- it's social engineering. Social engineering is very complicated. You need a lot of words to lay it all out -- and even more words to hide what you're really doing. And in the end, all efforts at social engineering fail.

We'd have more good legislation is there was a size limit.

[Little Ray]

IIRC, “Mr. Smith” was working for the Nanny State:

“Smith comes up with legislation that would authorize a federal government loan to buy some land in his home state for a national boys’ camp, to be paid back by youngsters across America.”