It adds weight to my growing suspicion that the central failure of our political system is the inability of Congress to address our problems forthrightly.

It adds weight to my growing suspicion that the central failure of our political system is the inability of the public to realize that a national congress is inherently unable to address our problems forthrightly.

I propose we pass the following amendment:

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved for the States respectively, or to the people.

At another blog I learned of an interesting concept for elections: approval voting. In this scheme, each voter can vote for as many candidates as he wishes; the winner is the candidate with the most votes. The result is that you aren’t forced to choose between the lesser of two evil extremes; the centrist candidate will always win. Now, we could argue that centrists aren’t desirable, but I think you’d agree that they’re a damn sight better than George W. Bush if you’re a liberal and Hillary Clinton if you’re a conservative. It might also put an end to negative campaigning. What’s the point of smearing another candidate if in the process you end up with some of the mud on yourself?