Heard on National Public Radio this morning: “The current congress has passed six times less legislation than the infamous “do-nothing-congress” of 1947 & 48.”
She said it like it was a bad thing.
Does the journalist think herself wiser than former national luminaries?
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
– Will Rogers
No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
– Mark Twain
I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.
– James Madison
The NPR piece continued by considering the preposterous proposal of outsourcing congress, making the remark of a modern luminary curiously prescient:
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
– P. J. O’Rourke