What was it Jefferson said . . .
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government . . .
We have the power to alter or abolish a government which becomes destructive every 2, 4, or 6 years; yet the same representatives who are destroying our country keep getting elected because they trickle economic slop to the troughs of their constituents while doling out sweetmeats and gravy to the platters of their contributors.
Sure we have the right to petition. It's amazing how much a butt-load of cash pumped into a campaign makes that petition float to the top. Absent the cash, it's just another fleck in the static.
Sleight of hand and blame game? Oh yeah. Bills pushed through on Fridays so that public scrutiny misses the news cycle. Funny -- Hitler pulled many of his pre-WWII geopolitical moves on Fridays, so that any opposition would be presented a fait accompli, at the point of being too late to respond.
And try to nail down who is responsible. Obama's consistently whining about "inheriting this crisis." Well, gee, Mr. O, shouldn't congress have been on the ball? And where were you before you were president? Hmmm. Sounds more like having pissed in the well you now wnat to drink from, to me. Maybe if you had actually VOTED on legislation, instead of just saying, "Huh?"
Officially he voted “Present,” but he was actually just practicing saying “President.”