Name:   Talullahhound - Subject:   Let the stupidity to begin Date:   9/5/2018 11:42:57 AM

I wouldn't be too quick to lay the blame at the feet of the bureaucracy.  There is a lot of blame to go around.  Don't forget that those bureaucrats serve multiple administrations - so it is not as though they are all republicans or all democrats, so they are not blocking anything from happening.  But as I understand it, hundreds of politcal appointees, a lot of which have to be confirmed, positions are vacant, and it is their responsibility to get the bureaucrats focused to achieve the agenda.  But at the end of the day, I still blame Congress for not being able to reach across the aisle and hammer out anything, for the good of the country.  Washington has become too party centric to get anything done.    Having said that, I do think the Supreme Court is  being left to  decide things that should never have gone to them to start with - and states are guilty in not passing good legislation either.  I do think it is important who is on the Supreme Court and I think it is most important to have a good mix of those who lean liberal and those that lean conservative.