Sunday, January 22, 2012

In Praise of a Do-nothing Congress

Selwyn Duke


Here’s a question: how can we expect to have small government if we condemn Congress for not growing it?


It’s always a disturbing experience when you’re accosted with a picture of Harry Reid, as I was upon logging on to Drudge Monday afternoon.  But at least his image bore a fitting caption: “MOST FUTILE EVER.”  I then clicked the link and found myself at The Washington Times – normally a quite sane organ of the media – and learned the meaning of the caption: the Times was lamenting a do-nothing Congress and presented Reid as its poster boy.  Writes the paper, “It’s official: Congress ended its least-productive year in modern history after passing 80 bills – fewer than during any other session since year-end records began being kept in 1947.” 


Read more: http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44085

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