James Madison was considered "The Father of the Constitution". He realized that one branch could not have complete control. Mr. Madison said, "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elected, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."

Therefore, the Constitution establishes a system of checks and balances to maintain balance within the US Government!http://library.thinkquest.org/J0110221/

I am beginning to wonder how well the system of checks and balances is really working. Especially in regards to the legislative branch of government. Maybe I misunderstood, but I always thought that elections were supposed to be a part of the checks and balances for the legislature. If that was the way it was supposed  work, something went wrong.

I strongly suspect that if we could bring one of the founding fathers back they would disapprove of how things are done now. I seem to recall that one of our founding fathers (I'm thinking  Washington) said that serving in government was an honor, not a privilege and that it wasn't supposed to  be a lifetime job.


Unfortunately, for many in Congress, and probably on  the state level as well, it has become a lifetime job.  I wonder how many Wisconsin and Indiana democrats fear that they may lose elections next time. I would guess by there actions that they aren't too worried about that.


And I wonder if once a candidate wins an elections do they become complacent? 


This brings me to another point that I was planning on doing another post. It is something I was already preparing to write about when I read Matt's comment the other day. That will be my posting tomorrow.


And I have been asking a number of questions and posting about problems. After tomorrows posting I will try  to throw a few possible solutions out there.