Quote Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube View Post
Sometimes I like to put on my tin foil hat and consider the possibility that Obama and the entire democratic party are incompetent on purpose, in order to further the Republican agenda of discrediting government in every way possible, to further their own master plan of making us all corporate slave-bitches.

Then I take the tin-foil hat off, cuz those things give you a headache.
That would require the politicians to give up power, for money or something. Now power without purpose and getting payed extra for (ab)using that power, that fits your gloomy view.