That’s the same method politicians have done to get controversial bills passed. Because they know they can’t pass something like “ANNEX AMERICAN PRIVACY ACT” right there out in the open. It’ll get shot down. Political suicide just to get it on the docket.
But if they do just enough bills that pass to make people think things are going okay, when we least expect it, they’ll lump it in the next big budget bill and it’ll become law. Then we’ll all go “Huh, wha?” before we know it.
That’s the same method politicians have done to get controversial bills passed. Because they know they can’t pass something like “ANNEX AMERICAN PRIVACY ACT” right there out in the open. It’ll get shot down. Political suicide just to get it on the docket.
But if they do just enough bills that pass to make people think things are going okay, when we least expect it, they’ll lump it in the next big budget bill and it’ll become law. Then we’ll all go “Huh, wha?” before we know it.
I mean, that’s how the Patriot Act has passed.