When politics triumphs over common sense, chaos reigns.

American politics is defined as the exchange of money for the power to influence the use of government force.

The Democratic Party has and is deliberately delaying confirmation of President Trump’s cabinet choices. Everybody in the United States knows that ex-President Obama curried favor with his bureaucrats by promoting those who violated the law to support him thereby building a loyalty to him and his agenda.  By delaying approvals of the new cabinet secretaries, proper staffing by these new secretaries with Trump loyalists was prevented and forced the Trump White House to use holdover Democratic loyalists.  For starters, it is the opinion of this observer that any so called White House leaks coming from the State Department, IRS, FBI, CIA, NSA,  Justice Department, EPA, etc. are from agents in those departments who are loyal to and support the Democratic Party agenda.  They will obstruct as best they can progress by the Trump administration.  Can these observations be proved?  No.  Can the bureaucrats prove that these observations are not true?  No.  If they reply yes, make them prove it with facts—not their usual boilerplate propaganda.  Will they try hiding Democratic operatives in these department bureaucracies to obstruct progress?  Yes.  Hopefully, the venal Democratic bureaucrats and their media cohorts both of whom have trouble with the truth will not resort to sabotaging our country.  Common sense observation of politics in this country leads to the sad conclusion that our federal government is a huge cesspool of corruption.

Recently the 9^th Federal Circuit Court of Appeals has just become part of the swamp that needs to be drained.  Much like our Anarchist Supreme Court, these judges seem to have forgotten how to read and ignored precedent to produce new law instead of following the Constitution and case law.  The conclusion is that political hack judges do not deserve lifetime appointments, so all federal judges should be required to run for election to a single 10 year term like the politicians they are.  If these judges continue to disgrace the Constitution and the judicial system, then a single 5 year term and out would be more appropriate.

Your professional politician Member of Congress is counting on you forgetting what you dislike about him or her before the next election so that member can get re-elected. If you truly want to have input into how we are governed, the country needs The Accountability Amendment (August 4, 2016 post) and The Federal Judiciary Amendment (March 31, 2016 post).  All politicians will vigorously oppose both amendments because it makes all government immediately accountable to the public with serious consequences for lying and actions that damage our citizens and country.