Nice post. We're onto something here. The very real threat to the republic is the Party Politics Cabal. We need to catalogue the many incidences. To name a few:
(1) The Torricelli Cabal that saved the Torch from electoral humiliation and put Lautenberg into a Senate seat.
(2) The buying of Hitlery's Senate seat through presidential pardons and doing favors for campaign bucks.
(3) The Albany Cabal that is protecting the rump of a serial rapist.
(4) The buying and selling judgeships in Brooklyn with the fingerprints of the Democrat Party Cabal all over it.
(5) The Gray Davis Cabal .........
And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
(6) Bush - Cheney/Halliburton
It's not unique to either half of the screw party system.
Regards
J.R.
You're exactly correct, this is just the tip of the iceburg, poised to sink our fine ship.