re: #206 DangerMan

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

That interpretation fails because the constitution doesn’t say things like “And on the Thursday of the Sixth month, the Senate Shall name a Post Office.” It is the job of the legislators to address issues of the United States, including oversight of the president. And that is where McConnell is failing to do his job. And it’s because of the second part that we are currently in trouble.