And that’s bad, why?
From an editorial in today’s Washington Post, comes an odd-sounding editorial that belies a serious detachment from reality and from the distrust of government that once was a hallmark of serious journalism.
A group of well-meaning professional activists — and, so far, over nearly 60,000 online petitioners — want members of Congress to sign a pledge never to vote on any bill unless they have read “every word” of it.
They have a point. But their proposal would bring government to a standstill.
I’ll repeat myself, that’s bad, why? Or, as Glen Reynolds writes, “It’s a feature, not a bug.” If the norm is that legislation is read by those who enact it into law, the norm wouldn’t be that we had 1400-plus page bills which no one understands.