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Unintended Consequences (#1036)
Posted: 2/21/2003; 11:58 AM by Terry Frazier
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The law has unintended consequences -- and our elected officials are finding themselves hoist on their own petard. It is routine and accepted procedure for Senators, Representatives, and even the President to sign-off on laws they don't understand (many they haven't even read) based on little more than simplistic summaries by junior aides and policy wonks, greased with current opinion poll results and lobbyist dollars. What this usually means is that We, the People take a drubbing while the gub'mint official moves on to the next big fund raiser.

But now they've signed McCain-Feingold, apparently without reading it, and they are the ones dealing with the consequences. There is a certain poetic justice in visualzing a Congressmen with "A sort of slack-jawed amazement at how far this thing reached" as they come to terms with what they signed. It is good for consequences to fall on the master instead of the slave...

Does Congress understand its own laws? - Apparently, not. And the proof is that they didn't even understand the full implications of McCain-Feingold finance reform bill. At least, that's what this N.Y. Times article suggests. [Ernie the Attorney]

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