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If elections matter . . .

By Tung Yin

I didn't vote for President Bush in 2004, but he won the election and I thought he was entitled to nominate well-credentialed lawyers like Miguel Estrada and John Roberts to the federal courts, because elections matter.

Senator Obama won the White House in 2008, and the Democrats expanded their control of Congress that same year, so they should be entitled to enact health insurance/care reform, because elections matter.

But if elections matter, shouldn't the House, I don't know, actually have to vote on health insurance/care reform?  I realize I'm not a politician, but I think I would have come up with a better explanation for the use of "deem and pass" than, as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi put it, "because people don't have to vote on the Senate bill."

Full post as published by The Yin Blog on March 16, 2010 (boomark / email).