Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich for August 15, 2023

Too true.

Painfully true

They often have their serial numbers filed off.

Cynicism is fueled by Truth.

Schoolhouse Rock >

It’s fine. They and we can always see and read and experience what’s in the laws after they’ve been passed.

There’s that great Schoolhouse Rock bit about this but GoComics is not allowing it, or other YouTube videos, to be posted. They must be afraid of something.

Actually, there’s a triple entendre here: A lot of bills are written by lobbyists and handed to legislators to become laws.

Too bad that the constituents don’t remember the antics and fall for the ear tickling.

Don’t forget the substantial “campaign contributions”.

All expense paid " junkets".

When a PAC or lobbyist drives a manure spreader full of bills and money through a legislature.

This is not universally true.

That question was a final exam question in a Constitutional Law class back in the late 1970’s. A number of students wrote lengthy treatises about drafting, committees, approval of both houses of Congress, the President’s signature or possibly the Congress overriding a veto, and none of them got above a B+. One guy (or gal – can’t remember which) got an A+, and only wrote 3 words in the exam booklet. “Sneak it through”. Example: The Hyde Amendment, which for many years forbade the use of Medicaid funds for abortion, was a 1976 amendment to a bill granting funds to a North-Eastern university to build or repair a bell tower on campus, IIRC.

Amen!

And this, boys and girls, is why this country’s mental health care is so painfully lacking. If the mentally ill had powerful lobbyists in their corner, they would have access to the help they need.

Way too true.

Or a judge

Welcome to Ohio, home of the best government money can buy.