Here Is Why Politics Don’t Work

From MSNBC:

The 1,071 page measure was posted on an overburdened congressional Web site late Thursday, giving lawmakers just a few overnight hours to read it before debate resumed in both the House and Senate Friday morning.

The funny thing is that this probably doesn’t make anyone blink, because everyone knows this is how politics works. But it’s still just wrong. They’re debating something that it would be impossible for anyone of the human persuasion to have read in that amount of time. And then they passed it. They passed a bill that not a single person had read. It’s like a group of low-functioning high school kids having a debate about Romeo & Juliet based just on the back cover copy. “I believe Romeo and Juliet is a tragic classic about doomed young lovers.” “Oh yeah? Well I think the Montagues and Capulets are two feuding families in the Italian city of Verona!”

Why do we even bother writing things down? Why don’t we just vote on concepts?