Originally Posted By: whomod
 Originally Posted By: the G-man
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only complete co-operationbetween all 3 branches of government will even come close to making things better


You have no idea how the federal government works, do you?

The government is divided into three separate branches: the executive, legislative and judiciary. They are divided so that each branch provides "checks and balances" on the others, in order that the federal government cannot grow too powerful or any one branch threaten to take away our individual rights.

Furthermore, the idea that the judiciary branch is supposed to kowtow to the executive and legislative branches borders on a breach of judicial ethics. The function of the judiciary is to interpret laws, including the constitution, fairly to insure equal and fair justice. It is not, under any circumstance, to "cooperate" with the president or congress and rubber-stamp what they do.

The day people want the branches, especially judiciary, to "cooperate" is the day our freedom is completely gone.


I'll remember this next time Bush's Unitary Executive Government comes up in conversation.


Great. Another person who doesn't understand how government works.

As noted above, each branch is supposed to serve as a check and balance on the other. However, that doesn't mean the other branches are supposed to automatically oppose each other for the sake of partisanship and more than it means that they are supposed to always march in lockstep.