I don’t see the clause in the United States’ Constitution where it says that the Speaker of the House will be a marginally sane dominatrix whose job it is to crack the whip over the heads of members of the legislature, threaten them with losing plum committee assignments & losing re-election support, threaten them with shame, ignominy etc., unless they toe the line and vote “yea” for a 2700 page convoluted mess of a bill that no one really understands. (But whose true intent is to to insert government into your life for the duration, the duration of the Republic or of the planet, whichever comes first)
It feels like something out of the Marquis de Sade rather than democracy in action.
Legislators, reportedly, already spend something like 6 hours/day of the peoples’ time sitting at telephone banks, raising cash.
Raising cash for re-election to the circus & getting a “win” for your President seem to be higher priorities than formulating anything resembling good policy.
