What is wrong with our system of government...

[TheDebbieDee]

that the DNI Dan Coats and CIA Director Pompeo and others KNOW that the Russians intend to meddle with our 2018 elections yet they need an order from our $hit4brains, traitorous President to do anything about it?

Seriously, I'm not understanding why these guys need an order from Trump to protect our election process. Surely there are things they can do that DON'T require them bust their budgets - I mean, each agency should already have a few hackers on staff, right?

Isn't that the whole point of a President having cabinet members? Because even the good, intelligent Presidents can't single-handedly run all the agencies every day...

[dchill]

1. The GOP is in control. ANYTHING that benefits the GOP...

is A-OK. No problemo. Nothing to see here. Move along.

[TheDebbieDee]

2. You're not making me feel any better...

[dchill]

9. I can't do that and still be ME!

I don't see any other explanation. What's the opposite of patriot, again?

[Gabi Hayes]

3. The problem is we dont have a PARliament

If this were GB, Fatso would be long gone by now

[sharedvalues]

4. Billionaires (American oligarchs) have taken over the GOP, seeking to enrich themselves.

Since the 1970s, billionaires like the Koches have used their money to build a propaganda machine and buy the party, judges, a supreme court decision that allowed them to spend far more, and now they have bought a whole congress.

This is the Koches moment. Their goal is to cut taxes on the rich (some cuts achieved), and destroy the government to pay for those cuts (their plan is to destroy Medicaid and Medicare this spring). There's no way GOP donor billionaires and CEOs are going to allow this president to screw up their plan of 40 years, even if Russian treason and destroying America is involved.

We must vote out the GOP in the 2018 midterms. That is the only solution.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/04/piketty-oligarchy-and-conservative-evasion.html

[sharedvalues]

5. Problem is GOP is bought by billionaires focused on cutting taxes

and destroying gov't to pay for those tax cuts.

Piketty predicted this.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/04/piketty-oligarchy-and-conservative-evasion.html

In fact, American politics revolves around a policy dispute that carries massive repercussions for inequality. Under Obama, Democrats enacted policies, against unremitting Republican opposition, to raise taxes at the top, cut them at the bottom, and expand income support for people with low incomes. Republicans have proposed, and continue to propose, not only to roll back those changes, but to move extremely far in the opposite direction, cutting tax rates for the rich to historically low levels while imposing staggeringly large cuts to programs for people with low incomes, which would engineer “the largest redistribution of income from bottom to top in modern U.S. history.”

Neither Brooks nor Continetti mentions any of these things. For all the demented paranoia of Tom Perkins, Ken Langone, Charles Koch, and the like, at least they are willing to acknowledge the basic class contours of the struggle in which they’re engaged.

[ProudLib72]

6. Well, thank you for asking the question I had when I read about this

It seems that, without any direction from the executive, none of the other branches can act. This is the excuse anyway, and it's not a valid one. If true, then we need to completely tear down our government and begin again. But I suspect that it is a whiny excuse for submitting to the orange menace because no one has a backbone.

[Ferrets are Cool]

7. Money is what is wrong with our government. nt

[leanforward]

8. The influence of greed from the Corporate (Capitalist) Sector

Our parties have forgotten the working people. Some would say the citizens. Earlier I watched the Democratic Candidate running against P Ryan. He hit the nail on the head.

We've all been taken in by this capitalist thinking. Government looks out for its citizens. Capitalism looks out for shareholders, CEOs, and business owners. What's been said a lot, capitalism is more efficient. Not when money is taken straight to the corporate pockets.

Government looks out for its citizens. Corporations look out for shareholders and owners.

Any government contract has a profit to the business entity. Too much privatization raises the cost of government by migrating earnings to the top. Basically, taking money out of the local area (working citizens) to what we have now, enormous profits and consolidation of wealth. We have the One percent.

[rickford66]

10. Don't get me started.

OK, let's start with the Electoral College.

[Orange Free State]

11. Politicians listen to money, not people. N/T

[moondust]

12. Corrupted by money. n/t

[napi21]

13. I don't think there's anything wrong with our system of Gov't other than at least one

Party members aren't following the rules, and since they also leading the oversight committees they simply pay any attention unless something a Dem does something that don't like.

[superpatriotman]

14. Start with the senate

Larger states should have more Senators than smaller states.

[TheDebbieDee]

15. Repeal and replace ALL republicans in 2018!

Courtesy Norman Goldman...

I'm a federal employee - I don't need my manager/boss to tell me to do my job!