Doesn't Anybody at the American Enterprise Institute Have a View About Whether Budget and Debt-Limit Bills Should Be "Clean" or "Dirty"?
The whole point of the Byrd Rule is that the budget process should be a budget process--that other Christmas-tree provisions should not be hung on it to try to take advantage of its standing as must-pass legislation. I think that this is a good idea. But, at least judging from the AEI's weblog, nobody at AEI appears to have a public view this weekend.
I interpret this as: "most of us here at AEI are horrified at the train wreck being produced by the House Republicans' and Senator Cruz's attempts to hang non-germane legislative changes on a budget bill, but we don't dare anger our political masters by any of us saying so."
If I'm wrong, and if there is some other way to interpret this silence, please let me know:
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