Krauthammer on the Lame Ducks

http://www.futureofcapitalism.com/2010/07/krauthammer-on-the-lame-ducks

From Charles Krauthammer's column in today's Washington Post:

As John Fund reports in the Wall Street Journal, Sens. Jay Rockefeller, Kent Conrad and Tom Harkin are already looking forward to what they might get passed in a lame-duck session. Among the major items being considered are card check, budget-balancing through major tax hikes, and climate-change legislation involving heavy carbon taxes and regulation....

How then to prevent a runaway lame-duck Congress? Bring the issue up now -- applying the check-and-balance of the people's will before it disappears the morning after Election Day. Every current member should be publicly asked: In the event you lose in November -- a remote and deeply deplorable eventuality, but still not inconceivable -- do you pledge to adhere to the will of the electorate and, in any lame-duck session of Congress, refuse to approve anything but the most routine legislation required to keep the government functioning?

by Ira Stoll  |  Jul 23, 2010 at 9:29 am Related Topics:  Energy, Politics, Press, Taxes receive the latest by email: subscribe to the free futureofcapitalism.com mailing list