We Don’t Need a Constitutional Convention

‘If you ever need anything, please don’t hesitate to ask someone else first,” Kurt Cobain growls in Nirvana’s 1993 ode to curmudgeons, “Very Ape.”

It is a mantra that should be engraved on the U.S. Capitol building, where it now seems the most effective politicians are the ones who most skillfully push important work onto others. The House saddles the Senate with bills that will never pass and vice versa. When legislation does pass, it is intentionally vague, so the executive branch has to decide how it is implemented. And administrations have no incentive to get it right, knowing new regulations will almost certainly be reviewed by the courts.