re: #197 Sir John Barron

Oh, I’m sure Senator Turtle will bottle this up, not permit it to come to the Senate floor for a vote, because of course he won’t.

as we were discussing yesterday w/r/t mcconnell and his constitutional obligations

- one of his jobs is setting the legislative agenda
- i’d argue that his sitting on everything is, in fact, keeping us from having a legislative agenda

- do we really want to argue that having no agenda is an agenda?
- that zero is a number?
sure it is. of sorts. still we all know that’s not what anybody meant when they wrote the thing. congress was supposed to do a job - process it, debate it, argue it, vote on it.. not merely show up, block everything, and collect a paycheck because ‘we dont like anything the other house has done’.

- i think its post hoc rationalizing - “sure we can read the constitution like that”
- though when in the past would anyone have come up with that interpretation?
- it’s perverted pretzel logic, trying to rationalize something that can’t be