It's aggravating. They need either massive reform, or privatization, but in this inverse, bass-ackwards universe we currently live in, speaking common sense and definitive action to the problem is akin to threatening genocide against a protected species.
"As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
--H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920