> legislation doesn't have to be written quite so naively as that

It will be written by think tanks behind lobbyists for industry interests that donate to campaigns.

> the one thing [Congress is] supposed to be doing

. . . is getting reelected. We do not elect them because of competency in law-writing or even in voting for their constituencies' interests. We elect them because they spend lots of money to tell us how monstrous "the other choice" is.