Fuck you, David Frum. Fuck you and that fucking smug demeanor with which you carry yourself for getting in a twist over We The Peopled emanding our Congresscritters be held accountable and visible.And a hearty fuck you with the fucking fucklingly fucked up salmonella infused fuckturtle of fucked up fuckbaggery for writing an article so full of douche, the cast of Jersey Shore called to tell him he's a douchebag. 

Take this quiz. Name the most important legislation enacted in the 30 years between 1950 and 1980.

Overwhelming isn't it? Civil rights. Voting rights. Interstate highways. Medicare. Medicaid. The deregulation of the airlines, natural gas, trucking, rail and oil. The immigration act of 1965. Clean Air, Clean Water, and the Endangered Species Acts. Supplemental Security Income in 1974. I could fill the whole screen.

Now ... the next 30 years.

There's the Reagan tax cuts of course. Deregulation of the savings & loans in 1982. The Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990. Welfare reform in 1995. Medicare Part D. What else?

Leave aside whether you are liberal or conservative, whether you approve the measures mentioned above or disapprove. It's hard to dispute: Congress just got a lot more done in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s than in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s.

Why?

You hear many grand, sweeping explanations. Let's try just one simple one.

Congress in the first period was controlled by a handful of committee chairmen, who owed their positions to seniority. The committees did their work in secret. Bills written in committee typically could not be amended on the floor of Congress. The institution was authoritarian, hierarchical, opaque. And stuff passed.

In the mid-1970s, Congress underwent a revolution. The power of the committee chairmen was broken. The number of subcommittees proliferated. The committees met in public. Amendments multiplied. Congress become more open, more egalitarian, more responsive. And stuff ceased to pass.

Oh boo fucking hoo.

Has it ever occured to you, Mr. Twat, that government inaction and not being able to function is a good thing? Hell, that's one of the main fucking points which animates the party in which you nominally claim to participate. But I guess all you rally fucking care about is that the empty suit and his Ivy League degree you supported gets a legislative "victory", right?

Sigh. Just fuck off and become a Democrat already, you fucking idiot.

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It’s an expression that knows few boundaries: bulging eyes, gaping mouths, flared nostrils with teeth exposed, seemingly ready to snap.

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