The Lingering Stench Of Clean Bills From A Nose Blind Congress

That we now have to delineate “clean bills” as an anomaly of legislation that does what it says it is going to do ought to be the clue

Andrew Donaldson

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Congressional leaders in March of 2020. Phot by the office of Kevin McCarthy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

They call it nose blindness.

It is the ability of someone to not recognize an odor out of familiarity with…

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Andrew Donaldson

Writer. Mountaineer diaspora. Veteran. Managing Editor @ordinarytimemag on culture & politics, food writing @yonderandhome, Host @heardtellshow & other media