Yeah, because having an Executive branch that stuffs the Supreme Court with radical agenda-driven jurists, completely controls corrupt Justice and IRS agencies, and has bribed Congress with taxpayer funds into doing his bidding has worked out so well for us.

The country is divided because the left is becoming ever more demanding and many of us are having an almost constantly increasing difficulty paying for our personal needs and wants.

If you can’t afford a soda each day with your lunch, should you have to pay federal income tax so Freddy Freeloader Jr.’s dad can buy soda for him with the federal funds you helped provide?

Should you have to dig deeply into a $9,000 retirement income so a local bureaucrat can enjoy a $60,000/year retirement?

Smile!!!

From your lips to G-d's ears!

For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; it is he who will save us. (Isaiah 33:22)

This little Passage from the Bible could be what inspired the Founding Fathers to separate the Judicial, Legislative, and Executive powers of human government.

Although the Almighty has the capability of doing all three things at once without conflict, the Founders knew that we are mere mortals and have to break things up to avoid tyranny.

Evidently, this jerk thinks she is smarter than the Founding Fathers, The Prophet Isaiah, or God!

Its not like she stormed the walls of the Congress and fought her way in. No, a cosmically STUPID electorate put her there.

Forced resignation. Talk like that is seditious.

She is just like 2/3rds of the population that the publik skool indoctrination centers are belching out-—brain-dead, ignorant useful idiot.

We need to put back Classical Christian education that the evil, humanist, communist John Dewey destroyed in 1930——for his programming and shaping of the “plastic” minds of the children.

How parents can EVER give their little children up to the State and Marxists (Common Core/NCLB/Goals 2000 etc) to “shape” is beyond me......Knowledge is Power. The LAST thing the State skools want for your children is wisdom!!!!!! They destroy the possibility of wisdom ON PURPOSE. (Even Socrates knew the State would only create slaves if they controlled “education”.)

Western Civ (Christianity) is being destroyed on purpose....the State wants slaves only and Free Will and Individualism (v. collectivism/socialism/slavery) is a Christian worldview only which is incompatible with slavery. it is why only Christians eliminated “slavery” as a “Good”. All other worldviews condone it and are incompatible with our Constitution which is based on Individual Natural Rights from God which predates ALL governments.

This morning I read about how Rachel Maddow apparently studied Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in Germany in order to try to understand Donald Trump. Ms. Maddow should see more immediate similarities between Hitler and modern Democrats like McCaskill (with these recent idiotic comments) as opposed to Trump.

She’s stupid, of course, but she is against separation of powers not because she’s stupid. . but because she’s a Progressive (like Hillary) and like their mentor was (Woodrow Wilson). The early 20th century Progressives were quite open about their criticism of the system the Founders established and the People ratified. Too Newtonian. . not enough Darwinian, they said. . .government is biological not mechanical, they said, hence the Constitution is a “living and breathing” document. . .which is dog whistle for “it means what we say it means.”

The following essay can be found here. Perhaps this less-than-knowledgeable Senator may wish to read the Federalist Essays mentioned in this document, as they contain the arguments published for citizens in the states in order to explain the Constitution for ratification.

Separation of Powers – the genius of America’s Constitution

America’s Founders had only recently declared themselves free of a tyrannical government. They were determined that such tyranny would never be repeated in this land. Their new charter of government – the Constitution – carefully defined the powers delegated to government. The Founders were determined to bind down the administrators of the federal government with Constitutional chains so that abuse of power in any of its branches would be prevented. The revolutionary idea of separation of powers, although unpopular at first, became a means by which this was to be accomplished.

John Adams, in a letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush, stated: “I call you to witness that I was the first member of Congress who ventured to come out in public, as I did in January 1776, in my ‘Thoughts on Government,’ …in favor of a government with three branches, and an independent judiciary…” By the time the Constitution was adopted, the idea was supported by all of the members of the Convention. James Madison, the father of the Constitution, devoted five Federalist Papers (47-51) to an explanation of how the Executive, Legislative, and judicial branches were to be wholly independent of each other, yet bound together through an intricate system of checks and balances. Madison believed that keeping the three branches separated was fundamental to the preservation of liberty. He wrote:

“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many… may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”

George Washington, in his Farewell Address, reminded Americans of the need to preserve the Founders’ system. He spoke of the “love of power and proneness to abuse it which predominates in the human heart” and warned of the “necessity of reciprocal checks of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositories and constituting each the guardian … against invasions by the others.” Of such checks and balances through the separation of powers be concluded, “To preserve them must be as necessary as to institute them.”

Footnote: Our Ageless Constitution, W. David Stedman & La Vaughn G. Lewis, Editors (Asheboro, NC, W. David Stedman Associates, 1987) Part III: ISBN 0-937047-01-5

Is the Senator's ignorance of the Constitution a reason for her failure to protect "the People's" liberty?

She was for POTUS writing law with executive orders, not enforcing existing laws, condoning targeting of political opponents using the IRS and FBI not to mention obstruction of justice and preventing oversight, as well as support illegal wars in Libya, Syria etc...

I have always considered this woman to be a complete dope.

Didn’t McCaskill fall into her plumb sinecure by playing on people’s sympathies after her husband died; and wasn’t that senate seat basically HANDED to her?

If so, and I think that’s the case, she never earned it fair and square; and was not qualified for it, anyway.

Something acquired undeservedly is usually held in low esteem, compensurate with the low level of diligence, if any, expended in earning it; of which she expended none. Not that one could notice, anyway. IMHO.

You know, I think the founders were maniacal for not better defining treason and making the formation of any permanent political party part of that crime, but hey what do I know?

Politicians LOVE dictators as long as they get to be the dictator. The instant an opposing party is in power they demand “democracy”.

Thanks again to the goober Todd Akin.

I could tell you a lot about her, as a friend of mine was a coworker at her first job as an attorney.

Shallow thought processes Claire.

Perhaps Sen. McCaskill would like to see Trump directly crowned King, rather than him being hindered by all that archaic, ‘maniacal’ separation of powers thingy to which mere presidents are subject?

Hmmmm?

If she truly believes this, just what is her function in The Senate? And what is the function of the legislature? She should just resign.