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.

When is the Congress going to start treating the American public like adults?

As someone who once tried to sell insurance, cost was always a problem. When I asked an insurance company representative why insurance premiums kept rising, his response was that the state kept adding mandates forcing everyone to have that coverage.

Obamacare followed the state mandate logic and loaded up the ACA with mandates some of which are outright stupid.

The Republicans have advertised that insurance premiums will go down, so they must deliver and eliminate all mandates. Offer coverages as options and do it now because most Americans do not trust anyone in the Congress to deliver phases two and three.

Oh yes, if they don’t deliver phase two—which may not now be needed—and phase three, we will have new members of Congress after the 2018 elections.

The lack of congressional progress in implementing President Trump’s health and tax reforms and recent federal court decisions are prime examples of why we need to pass Accountability and Federal Judiciary Amendments to the Constitution. We can’t let work that must be done and laws to be passed interfere with congressional recesses, can we?  The political hack federal judges don’t give a damn about the Constitution because they think they are smarter than the founding fathers and will change the Constitution to suit their personal agenda.  If you agree with activism, then you can expect interpretation of the Constitution to change every 5-10 years as every constitutional issue is revisited by different judges.  When the Constitution is changed every 5-10 years, the public begins to believe that the law does not need to be followed because it will soon change; therefore, ignore all the laws and do what you want to do.  When that happens and it is close to happening now, that ladies and gentlemen is anarchy.

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 Revised Accountability Amendment (March 19, 2017 post) enabling the public to remove federal officials and overturn laws and court decisions, and The Federal Judiciary Amendment (March 31, 2016 post) which removes federal judge lifetime appointments and replaces them with a single elected 10 year term.  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.