Imagine how much\u00a0 better\u00a0criminal justice would be\u00a0if prosecutors and judges worked with defense attorneys to speed up the judicial system?<\/p>\n
Or if accountants and auditors were on the same team?<\/p>\n
Or if the President, Congress and the Supreme Court spent less time checking and balancing each other, and more time working on ways to help each other increase <\/em>their power?<\/p>\n Well, no.\u00a0 They are all terrible ideas.\u00a0 The whole point of having adversarial systems built into government is to ensure there’s accountability, or at the very least a speed bump in the way of unlimited power on the part of CEOs, Presidents, Governors, Congresses…<\/p>\n That’s why of all of Jesse Ventura’s mind-dissolvingly stupid ideas in his time-warpingly stupid administration, the dumbest of all was his constant lobotomized yapping for a unicameral legislature, so government could “get stuff done”.\u00a0 Of course, keeping <\/em>government from getting “stuff done” with impunity is one of the great virtues <\/em>of both the bicameral legislature and the two-party system.<\/p>\n Of course, the Minnesota DFL has never understood this.\u00a0 Their primary frame of historical reference is the period nationally between 1933 and 1980, and in Minnesota until about 2003;<\/p>\n This is a good <\/em>thing; it means everyone’s working to hold everyone accountable.<\/p>\n Which may explain a lot why Doug Grow thinks this is a good idea:<\/p>\n The relationship between Mary Cathryn Ricker and Valeria Silva stands in sharp contrast to the common education confrontations that have dogged public education in Minnesota in recent years.<\/p>\n Ricker, head of the St. Paul teachers union, and Silva, the St. Paul school district’s superintendent, meet often and banter easily.<\/p>\n “Mary Cathryn asked me to attend a workshop (sponsored by the American Federation of Teachers),” recalled Silva.<\/p><\/div>\n\n