For republicans it's easy to skate into a lawmaking job without knowing the first thing about lawmaking.
They don't need to, (nor could they get away with actually legislating if it countermanded the laws desired and written by their corporate donors - lockstep is a GOP maxim - imo). That's ALEC's job. The American Legislation Exchange Council. One of the more prolific pernicious one-stop legislation mills providing the needed guidelines for corporate shills.
The only job requirement for republicans is not blowing the Con job.
link to John Oliver: http://www.youtube.com/...
So far the 113th US congress has passed and enacted 185 laws. State legislatures, otoh have passed and enacted more than 24 thousand bills.
And the sad fact is even if republicans are certifiably fringe nut-jobs and do blow the scam; for 25% of elections, how many are rwnj's that go unchallenged?
The cure it seems to me is building and maintaining a network of year round political activists and groups that is up and running focusing on every election at every level including some good old fashioned civil disobedience when necessary - like now
I have to say, that although it's an obvious fact that local and state elections and votes on initiatives, propositions and other bills do happen as anyone knows, this reminder by John Oliver really phased me.
Just how many thousands of issues/bills and candidate races are there (?) - I don't know the precise numbers. But according to this reporting, 25% of that number of all races throughout the country go unopposed and unnoticed by way too many folks
I'd bet that not many go unnoticed by corpo think tanks, as it seems they write most of the 'bills' for the GOP shills they also buy