{"id":4875,"date":"2010-04-20T13:15:03","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T17:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=4875"},"modified":"2010-04-20T13:15:03","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T17:15:03","slug":"bloated-bureaucracies-a-constipated-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4875\/bloated-bureaucracies-a-constipated-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloated Bureaucracies &#038; a Constipated Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the measures of successful politicians is how much legislation they author, sponsor, and pass.\u00a0 Since the activities can be counted, the more a legislator does, the more he can claim to be \u201cdoing something\u201d to justify his reelection.<\/p>\n<p>So it must be frustrating for all the Senators who desperately want to \u201cdo something\u201d when colleagues in their own party insist on larding unpopular policies into bills that would otherwise sail through the process.\u00a0 Though the main energy bill claims enough support to pass, Senators <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/e2-wire\/677-e2-wire\/93149-energy-debate-grows-divisive  \" target=\"_blank\">John Kerry (D-MA) and Barbara Boxer (D-CA) are blocking it<\/a> because its centrist supporters refuse to include the Environmental Left\u2019s demands for cap-and-trade.\u00a0 When asked to present the cap-and-tax language as a stand-alone amendment, Kerry and Boxer balked because they don\u2019t have the 60 votes to attach it.<\/p>\n<p>Who can blame them?\u00a0 After the large scale corruption of the legislative process to pass ObamaCare, why wouldn\u2019t a Democratic lawmaker think that rules only apply to Republicans?<\/p>\n<p>Happily, adding text to the United States Code isn\u2019t everyone\u2019s definition of a good legislator.\u00a0 Senators like Jim DeMint (R-SC) and Tom Coburn (R-OK) pride themselves on reducing the word count of the nation\u2019s legal regime.\u00a0 Less law means less room for bureaucrats to expand their reach.\u00a0 Let\u2019s hope the Democrats\u2019 insatiable demand for more government continues to be an obstacle to passing any new laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the measures of successful politicians is how much legislation they author, sponsor, and pass.\u00a0 Since the activities can be counted, the more a legislator does, the more he can claim to be \u201cdoing something\u201d to justify his reelection. So it must be frustrating for all the Senators who desperately want to \u201cdo something\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[442,1138,84,195,271,599,35,15],"class_list":["post-4875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barbara-boxer","tag-bureaucracy","tag-congress","tag-energy","tag-jim-demint","tag-john-kerry","tag-obamacare","tag-tom-coburn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4876,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4875\/revisions\/4876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}