It's been said before: "All elections are between a douche and a giant turd.".

I'd like the government to actually think of something good from time to time. A Fuck This Plan! motion may make them come up with real ways to handle things instead of the first dumbass plan someone blurts out.

Some also have short non-uniform election cycles.

But the problem does not lie in our constitution but from the many non-constitutional powers the position of president has slowly amassed since the necessary circumstances of the civil war.

I'm just not gonna vote anymore

THAT'LL SHOW UM! (says a majority of the US)

that brings to mind those commercials where an utter slob is watching Dora the Explorer and getting a puzzling look when Dora makes a joke. then a disclaimer appears "This guy votes"

*shudders*

+1

I’m not sure I’d like to see a parliamentary system, a stronger separation of powers would do us some good these days.

But, I think there is a good argument to be made that America needs a new constitution. The world has learned a lot about how representative government works in the 200 years since our founding, but we haven’t been able to implement any of these great new ideas. It’s one of the disadvantages of being early adopters to the democratic system.

For instance, our constitution lacks a clear mandate for the government to provide education, health, welfare, or any other number of services that are universally expected of modern governments. We still provide most of those sorts of services, but you still have the occasional strict constructionists who want to end the transportation department or some such nonsense.

Nation wide recall votes would make me a happy person.

Gods how I hate to say anything that might sound like defense of the Bush Admin, but a nationwide recall is a horrible idea. Check the recent recalls in areas that have it, and you'll find that most of them are handled by relatively small groups that are suspiciously well funded. As with most things that in moderation are a good idea, in the hands of an ideologue it turns into a case of massive expense and wasted time, just because the guy won had the wrong letter (R,D,I) after his name.

Additionally, there are times when a Pres has to make an unpopular decision for the benefit of the country. That's avoided like the plague now. It'd become impossible if nationwide recalls were around.

That said, impeaching Bush is a good idea.