Posted by
Always To The Right on Thursday, December 30, 2010 10:30:46 PM
Kill The Lame Duck
Governance: It is an anachronism a constitutional amendment tried to
kill. It lets defeated legislators wreak political and economic havoc
without
consequence. Like the dodo, the lame duck should be extinct.
Elections are supposed to have consequences, one of them being
occasionally throwing the rascals out. Yet here the rascals we threw out
on Nov. 2 are still
running the roost and deciding the fate of our republic in ways we have
already rejected.
Enter the 20th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Ratified on Jan. 23,
1933, it was designed to end forever the excesses of lame duck sessions,
but because of
the way it was written utterly failed to accomplish one of its main
purposes.