Comments by "Peter deWolf" (@StoneShards) on "Sen. Ben Sasse unloads on Congress at Kavanaugh hearing" video.

I wish he hadn't conflated "law" and "policy"...Legislation must be general enough to accommodate shifts in reality by adjustment of the regulations which implement the legislation. Otherwise, legislation would have to be routinely amended, with every change in the price of turnips, for instance. THIS is where the judiciary comes in. I would suggest, though, that this distinction between legislation and regulation IS the crux of swampery. This is where subtle influences can be exercised with impunity. Consider what kind of mind it must be that matches legislative intent to regulatory specificity. This very exercise is a quagmire, a swamp of possible interpretations, ramifications, deficiencies. This type of effort properly belongs more to "art" than to "artifice".
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