In Praise Of A Do-Nothing Congress

 

In Praise of a Do-nothing Congress by Selwyn Duke over at the American Thinker

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."

 

Writes Duke, "It's official: conservatives are completely confused about what begets big government."

 

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