Most Americans believe our country is headed in the wrong direction. But there remain folks who would like to take us all the way into downtown Wrongville.
Two Sundays ago, in my column at Townhall.com, I expressed exasperation at the “prestigious” Think Long Committee’s recommendations to make it much tougher for California citizens to place issues on the ballot, to allow legislators to trump any citizen-enacted measures, and to empower an unelected council chosen by the governor and legislative leaders to place any measure they desire on the ballot.
Then North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue (D) told a Raleigh Rotary Club, “I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won’t hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover.”
After taking some hits, the Governor’s press secretary claimed she “was obviously using hyperbole.” But that’s not the way the audio sounds.
Finally, a New Republic article by Peter Orzsag, former Obama Administration Director of the Office of Management and Budget and now Vice Chairman of Global Banking at Citigroup, calls for more reliance upon “automatic policies and depoliticized commissions” because “we need to counter the gridlock of our political institutions by making them a bit less democratic.”
This just after our infamous 535 representatives handed away their power to a “super-committee” of only twelve people.
A whole class of people see the road to Wrongville and hit the accelerator.
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
1 reply on “The Wrong Track”
It appears we need a new amendment that prohibits Congress from passing off their powers and responsibilities to anyone, “super committee” or otherwise.
Next they will be willing to “sell” those powers we gave them as voters, to any foreign country that pays them the most cold hard currency/gold, etc