We engineered gridlock, then acted surprised when nothing moved. GovBroken logs the bugs, ships small patches, and keeps the jokes dry enough to be flammable.
We are not angry. We are just disappointed. Here is a taste of the repeat offenders we track, with sources and datasets in the full project.
Continuing resolutions that continue nothing. Imagine running a business like this. Now stop imagining before HR gets involved.
Three hours of grandstanding to produce one sternly worded tweet. Governance as content. Content as governance. Everyone subscribes, nothing changes.
Thousands of pages, dropped at midnight, voted at dawn. If you finished it you failed the vibe check.
Rules stacked on rules until the original rule is a rumor. Compliance by archaeology with a generous travel budget.
We file tickets like: "Feature request: read the bill before voting." Priority: mythical. Repro steps: turn on cameras, deliver speeches, repeat.
Time to pass anything. Cost of doing nothing. Trust half-life per news cycle. Spoiler: the graph looks like a ski slope.
Weekend-sized changes. No 900-page PDFs. No consultant spirit animals.
No sweeping manifestos. No five-year panels. Just shippable changes that improve transparency and reduce failure modes you can spot from space.
Plain-language summaries for every bill. One page. No jargon. If you need acronyms, you already lost.
48-hour public read window before floor votes. If that breaks the schedule, congratulations, you found the bug.
Post-vote scorecards comparing promises to outcomes. Delivered to inboxes, not buried in PDFs or optimistic press releases.
Open data for hearings and amendments, real timestamps, machine-readable text, fewer dramatic montages.
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