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Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna
If that's all that was done in some extra time taken before voting, I'd agree. But if Congress is given more time, not only does the "debate" become stone-throwing, but too many self-serving legislators and their moneyed lobbyist backers start adding amendments or changing the language, often to something 180 degrees from what was intended.
Juat as Bucco doesn't trust the President, I have at least an equal amount of distrust for the U.S. Congress. Given the choice, I'll side with the "benevolent dictator".
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I too have little trust in many congressfolk, but they are part of the process, and all there is for check-and-balance, and unless they vote for something, it doesn't happen. Better they know what they are voting to spend our money on, than throw up their hands and say, "what the heck, it's only money!"
Will there be grandstanding? You bet there will. But there already has been grandstanding from the White House, so a little more won't hurt.
I thought one of the goals of this administration was "full disclosure" because of Democratic accusations during the last administration of back-room actions. So, now this administration (and Congress) can do what they said they would, and not do what they complained about the last few years.