[Paul Ross]

... my observations yield the conclusion that we have an overwhelming pack of thugs, liars, and crooks in Washington who disdain law and worship money and power above all things...

Bump! This is the real danger for all representative governments.

Corruption from within.

By chance did you happen to see on C-SPAN, Brian Lamb's Q&A interview with U.S. Senator Thomas Coburn from Oklahoma?

I hadn't had a chance to see this fresham Republican Senator until now. I was impressed...at least from the issue of governmental integrity, accountability and transparency. Perhaps one of the most passionate and serious of Capitol Hill culture-reformers we may have.

[B4Ranch]

April 12, 1952 – John Foster Dulles, later to become Secretary of State, says in a speech to the American Bar Association in Louisville, Kentucky, that "treaty laws can override the Constitution." He says treaties can take power away from Congress and give them to the President. They can take powers from the States and give them to the Federal Government or to some international body and they can cut across the rights given to the people by their constitutional Bill of Rights. A Senate amendment, proposed by GOP Senator John Bricker, would have provided that no treaty could supersede the Constitution, but it fails to pass by one vote.

Take time to read the source page and you'll get really ticked off.

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