[2ndDivisionVet]

Sadly, much of what he says is true.

[Leisler]

bump!

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

"First, we have two identical parties which, when elected, do very much the same things. Thus the election determines not policy but only the division of spoils. Nothing really changes. The Democrats will never seriously reduce military spending, nor the Republicans, entitlements."

This one paragraph pretty much sums it up.

[SatinDoll]

You really think so?

I'm 57 years old, a military vet (as you well know), and I've seen enough Presidents, like Reagan, Bush I & II, Clinton, and Carter, to know that a President can wield enormous power to create beneficial trends and send us nosediving into horrifying crises.

What this article skims over is this: we have entrenched bureaucracies in this country, many unionized, that can at times facilitate or block what a President and Congress want to achieve. By and large the huge government “machine” is liberal to the point of being de facto Fabian Socialism.

We have Federal departments that, per the Constitution, shouldn't even exist. THAT is the main impediment any Conservative President and Congress faces IMHO.

[Don Corleone]

The United States is NOT a democracy...It is a REPUBLIC. “I pledge allegiance to the flag and the REPUBLIC for which it stands.....”

[Impy]

There’s a major clog and the sink is stopped up.