Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Jul 2020
America’s backwards coronavirus strategy
22 July 2020 - The federal government’s approach is like a hospital that invests in palliative care while abolishing the oncology department.
The Senate's status as “the world’s greatest deliberative body”, as President James Buchanan allegedly described it, has been exaggerated for a while. Legislation is accomplished not through considered debate, but rushed, secretive crafting of law by senior party leaders on the eve of some cataclysmic deadline.
In the past decade this brinkmanship has led to one struggle over “sequestration” (spending caps), two debt-ceiling crises and three shutdowns of the federal government, but little in the way of substantive lawmaking.
