According to Cass Sunstien's Partial Constitution the institutions of the constitution are meant for one thing...deliberation. That is specifically why 2 houses are needed for the passage of a bill. That is what is made to counter the changing passions of the active polity. That is the reason to why conservatives/libertarians would put more active governance to the states as to screw a small population than screw everyone. (JK). However, due to the rise of attention for the federal government, it seems as if the federal government needs to be active ( while I personally believe it shouldn't be as domestically active as it is right now) at the expense of deliberation.
The current mode of passage that the current health care plan is about to enter is a slap to our democratic republic.This is it in a nutshell...
Media Matters went on a lengthy post to counter the claims of hypocrisy that the Right Wing has made against congress and yes I'll agree with them that the GOP has used it back in 2006 35 times.
But this is something decided upon by congress's Ways and Means committee, not by the constitution. So doesn't that bring up a question of constitutionality against the actions of both parties historically? The constitution already has by laws on how legislation is passed. Isn't the proposed method for the current health care bill legally wrong?
Look...Regardless of what you think of the bill and who is passing it, this is not the way to pass federal legislation. It undermine's rules set out by the constitution without changing it via amendments and also removes that idea of deliberation that Sunstein believes is inherent and needed in American politics. Rather...its a power grab, using science to get results as opposed to the representative democracy that our republic mandates.
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