sooo true, sad as it is, its a far different system than a parlimentary system where a group must maintain a majority to keep hegemony, the best thing about it in the u.s. is no one can be the king of the hill for very long, as for messes, we may have to go back the last 16 yrs , for some reason it seems like the whole thing started going south when Mr coruption took over from Mr crazypants's father,, probably the last fully cualified ruler we had administrativly speaking any way