Dan Tucker - If you study the writings of the Founders, you will find that they created exactly a system that would run to gridlock. They wanted government to endlessly debate issues and pass only a small amount of legislation because why government was preoccupied with this task, people could get stuff done without the interference of government. Our Founders rightly distrusted government deeply ... with a few exceptions. Alexander Hamilton wanted a king. He thought monarchy was a more efficient form of government, so he made sure the presidency had a lot more power than most of the Founders were comfortable giving to a single "ruler".

For about 100 years, we have been force fed this nonsense that government is supposed to be efficient and pass laws, but that's just meant that we're all drowning in laws to where our society can't function anymore. I see the current "gridlock" as a good thing. Now, if we could just sunset about 90% of the laws, the people can get stuff done.