Yep,that about sizes it up.
The tree needs refreshing...BADLY.
Even better, they should go back to Adam Smith and the OTHER thinkers of the Enlightenment who provided the basis for their ideas.
Some things change with time. Human nature never does. The Founding Fathers KNEW this. That is why they established a Republic with checks and balances and a Bill of Rights. Never, in their most horrid nightmares, would they have believed that future generations of Americans, nourished on wealth, apathy and ignorance, would be willing to trade their freedom to the kind of thieving rascals who have become career criminal politicians.
America does NOT need a House of Lords.
Its PAST time Congress was cleaned out and the entrenched special interests represented by people like Pelosi, Reid, Spector, Grassley, Hatch, Snow, Durban, the Kennedy Klan, etc, were flushed down the sewer of history where they belong.
We NEED term limits!!!!!!!!!