New Business

 

Bring Back New Business

(This blog is not an attack on Jeff Bezos or his company, Amazon PD, for their total destruction of New Businesses (Mom & Pop small businesses).

   One could drop the prayer at the beginning of a government legislative session and add a call for new business at the end.  This would add to the effectiveness and the honesty of their endeavor.  I remember student government in high school, sixty-five years ago, and that was our procedure.  We were learning parliamentary order.  The last section of the governing body meeting was always to ask, “Is there any New Business?”  This enabled any elected representative to present a bill to the group and in order for the bill to be brought to the floor for discussion and a vote, an “I second the motion” was also required.  Therefore, what came to the floor for discussion and was voted upon was not the sole discretion of the leader.  Under Robert’s Rules of Parliamentary Order, democracy was alive and well.  Not so in our government today.

   Fast forward to Mitch McConnell’s Senate Majority Leadership, during the Trump Administration.  As you know, Mitch effectively blocked over three hundred bills passed by the House of Representatives from being brought to the floor for discussion and vote.  Any bill must be passed by both legislative bodies before being signed by the President into law.  This effectively gave one man elected by one small state control over the legislation of an entire nation.   As a secondary action, Mitch would not allow a justice appointment to The Terrible Nine by President Obama, for Senate approval, because at eleven months, it was “too close to a presidential election.” While later, under Trump, Mitch ushered in a Supreme Court appointment for Senate review with only one month left in Trump’s term of office.

  If J. Edgar Hoover has earned the right to his name posted on the building housing The Federal Bureau of Investigation, certainly Mitch McConnell has earned the right to his name in large letters posted on the Senate Building.  Like other great Americans, perhaps Donald Trump’s Name should be displayed in large letters on The White House.  It could then be called “The House of Trump.”

Cheers, Old Buz     7/27/2023

“The loyalist follows the under tail scent of the lemming in front of him.” – Old Buz

(This is my humble opinion of employing loyalty as one’s primary moral guide.)