You have just laid out good and sufficient reasons to replace the umpires.
After all we are the ones who put and keep these dunderheads in office, time to take the effort to remove them from the game. So it would seem to me.
And by the way, I don't wear funny hats nor paint my face for games, though my ancestor's have when the times warranted such. (Boston tea party was a grand time donch'ya think?)
You don't read history good do ya...
"We've" tried that for over two hundred years..
and "we" havnt removed them yet..
The founders of this here republic foresaw this problem..
and gave us the 2nd amendment..
What they didnt foresee is that we lost the cold war with socialism and are presently being socialized, quickly, by REPUBLICANS YET, currently.....
Proof: the second amendment has become NOW is just for doing target practice and artifact ownership.. Not for the orginal purpose of it.. which was to make revolution LEGAL...
Americans don't have much stomach for revolution these days.. would ruin the beer drinking and football games.. not to speak of stopping them precious SSI checks.. No America is way too soft for using the 2nd amendment to way it was orginally intended..
Admit it.. Geez.. the only balls left in america are in Iraq or on folks too old to even feel them anymore.. The geldings whinny is just for food anymore..
Pretty smart of Bush and others to move Americas balls to Iraq and Afganistan.. The chances of a revolution then are pretty remote.. A revolution of geldings would be quite funny.. if it happened at all.. it would merely be a riot anyway.. not a balls to the wall revolution..
The Fair Tax is the/a geldings anwser to the 2nd amendment.. FREEDOM ALWAYS costs BLOOD.. always.. Fiduciary tricks are a cowards gambit..