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Congress has demonstrated time and time again that its function is to serve as ticket-taker and blustery rubberstamp for every whim and fancy concocted by whoever fills their coffers with the most cash.
America's tolerance of the two-party stranglehold on our national character, identity and collective psyche is the real crime here, and it is exactly why Nancy Pelosi - in spite of the naked criminality of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney on full public display DAILY - can get away announcing "Impeachment is off the table." A bigger greenlight for criminal activity could not exist.
Both houses of Congress, and both sides of the aisle, are nothing more than elaborate stage props used to provide an illusion of democracy. That such open, systematic disregard for The Constitution and the public good is accepted as just politics by a majority of Americans - led by the clubby careerists comprising the Royal Punditry - is all the proof anyone needs to understand what the term "post-Constitutionalism" really means.
Get used to it. Our broken nation's Party Apparatchiks have other things to think about - like, who gets to be the next Unitary Executive.
