Loathe as I am to speak against The People, I have to disagree with your harping on Nix's commendable veto of the atrociously bloated mental health bill. With that veto, Nix struck an important blow against the inaccessibility and obtusity of Atlasian legislation and I think it may well go down as the most important symbolic act of his Presidency.
Perhaps it would have been more commendable to state such concerns up front, that way four months of hard work and precious bandwidth wouldn't have been wasted and maybe we could have actually gotten something done for people with mental health problems. And not just Nix. Duke and I started with a blank slate and every Senator had a chance to object to each amendment as it came in sections. Concerned citizens were free to interject at any point, even you could have come in and said, "Hey, don't get too carried with the word 'comprehensive' in here". Our concern was quality and covering the bases, and in the absence of other stated concerns, we cannot read minds to come to know that they exist.
Or perhaps he could have utilized the rewrite process as a means to manipulate the bill back to the debate so we could have pared it down and then passed atleast something for people with mental health problems.
Perhaps the defintion of commendable has been changed and now is to take the path that ensures that nothing gets done and puts off key issues for several weeks/month. I have partials that I have been working on, and I am shocked, shocked I tell you to find that the interest in the piecemeal approach has not been forthcoming. In fact, I got more interest from people willing to help fix and pare down comprehensive bill, then in proceeding piecemeal.
I love Nix and he knows that, but the word commendable just doesn't apply to anyone in the course of this shameful episode.
