Catherine Rampell: A balanced-budget amendment is always stupid. Right now, it’s a joke.

A balanced-budget amendment is pretty much always a stupid idea. But you know when it’s stupidest?When you’ve just blown a multitrillion-dollar hole in the deficit, and also, umm, don’t even really plan to pass a budget.House Republicans voted Thursday to make deficits unconstitutional. There is no universe in which this would be good policy. Were it to ever actually become a part of the Constitution (spoiler alert: It won’t, and not only because the House measure fell sh