On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:34:27 +0000 (UTC), Gray Guest
wrote:

Not an answer to my question. In fact your response suggests that the
system is simply internally corrupt and Congress is abusing it's power, in
an institutional way.

Maybe that's simple. But are you implying that institutional
corruption does less harm than non-institutional corruption?

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"In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found,
than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."

- James Madison