The governed do not consent...

JEFF JACOBY: Lawmakers, read the bills before you vote.

Hoyer conceded that if lawmakers had to carefully study the bill ahead of time, they would never vote for it. “If every member pledged to not vote for it if they hadn’t read it in its entirety, I think we would have very few votes,’’ he said. The majority leader was declaring, in other words, that it is more important for Congress to pass the bill than to understand it.

To which Glenn Reynolds adds: If companies that are “too big to fail” are too big to exist, then bills that are “too long to read” are too long to pass. This sort of behavior — passing bills that no one has read — or, that in the case of the healthcare “bill” haven’t even actually been written — represents political corruption of the first order. If representation is the basis on which laws bind the citizen, then why should citizens regard themselves as bound by laws that their representatives haven’t read, or, sometimes, even written yet?

That, to me, is a long overdue question. Oh, and if the IRS decides to audit me any time soon, I'm going tell them where to go, seeing as how the government considers its unconstitutional financial scamming institution to be above auditing. Equal justice under the law? Not in this country. Not any longer. Frankly, I'm getting tired of all the vociferous legal wrangling that attempts to justify what this country has become. I'm leaning ever more towards the Han Solo school of government correction: "Bring 'em on! I prefer a straight fight to all this sneaking around."