Voters: Beware Lame-Duck Congress

摘要

To pass in a lame-duck session major legislation so unpopular that Democrats had no chance of passing it in regular session - after major Democratic losses signifying a withdrawal of the mandate implicitly granted in 2008 - would be an egregious violation of elementary democratic norms. In the event you lose in November - a remote and deeply deplorable eventuality, but still not inconceivable - do you pledge to adhere to the will of the electorate and, in any lame-duck session of Congress, refuse to approve anything but the most routine legislation required to keep the government functioning?