“The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.”Paul-Muad’dib to the Guild navigators, Dune, by Frank Herbert (1965) Variations on that line have been going through my head ever since the debt-ceiling debate cranked...
If you’re into reading legislation yourself (zzzzzzz), the House Rules committee has now published the text of the proposed budget deal in both PDF and XML formats — apparently, the committee staff stayed up late to take care of the...