What this means is that Congress, as the founders conceived it, is out of business.
I think both sides wanted this because it consolidates the power of 546 congress people into six a piece. It also aces out the Tea Party.
This is an end run around what is clearly the end of two party rule.
The ONLY historic thing about this whole legislative process, as it were, was that the new party in town was able to completely derail over 100 years of two party rule.
Before the Tea Party, there were ideologues on both sides, and appropriators. Those were the parties. There hasn’t been a Democrat/Republican system for a long time now.
Guys like McCain? Republican and conservative? He’s an appropriator.
Now there are ideologues, Tea Partiers, and appropriators, and some of the appropriators are getting a sense that conservatism is the new black.
Without the Tea Party, there was political theater ending in higher spending. It’s why you could only end welfare when a Democrat was in the White House, and Nixon begat the EPA. Reagan raised taxes too.
The Tea Party appears to be something different. We’ll see how long it takes to coopt it.
The Tea Party appears to be something different. We’ll see how long it takes to coopt it.
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The longer it remains a mindset and attitude rather than an organization, the longer it will last. Perhaps that is the point of Geo. Washington’s warning about faction.