05.29.06
(VETO) VOTE
What would happen if legislation was passed electronically by means of an up/down proxy vote on a line item basis?  This would work similarly to (and well with) presidential line-item veto power… except applied to items of a certain size (much smaller than current “bills” and eligible for vote by all members rather than just committees) within legislative bodies themselves…
My initial thought was the above providing overview/granularity in the who’s who debate of 2-party politics - giving us a much clearer picture of where the two agree and disagree… data derived from this experiment would be very interesting.
So you (say) you want a revolution… well, you know…
– update, moments later:
The funny version: where instead of elected representatives voting as ideological agents of their constituencies (as above), it is simply a cash based proxy bidding system… how different is this from what occurs now? it’s not, so if there’s no moral judgment to be made, it’s at least a lot more efficient to go ahead and just make it into what it wants to be: ebay.gov!