Originally Posted by Wogsterca

This goes to show the fundamental flaw in the US form of government, too much of the day to day operation of the country is in the hands of POTUS and his unelected staff.

Personally, I think the US system should be changed, so that all of the day to day operation is done through Secretairies who are members of the House of Representatives, those Secretaries would be answerable to the house, which is answerable to the people. The President could consentrate on entertaining visiting dignitaries, and signing legislation into law. In fact the President, being a largely ceremonial job and much less important, could be even appointed, possibly by congress. Of course the majority house leader would become much more important, a Prime Secretary, if you wish. In fact most constitutional monarchies and republics do work this way, although the terminology is often different.

I like the idea of a congressional appointment, once congress (house and senate combined) is elected, they would form a committee to find a President and Vice President, this committee would consist of 20 members of the house, 20 members of the senate, and one person who is part of neither, possibly the Mayor of Washington, D.C. so that there is no possbility of a tie, and neither house has more influence then the other. This committee would select a candidate for President, and a candiate for Vice President, the house and senate as a whole would then vote to accept the candidates. That President and vice President would then be appointed, they would remain appointed until Congress appoints someone else. Yes that means that a President (that Congress is happy with) could remain President for many years, but so?

A Temporary unavailability of a President, say during a short Illness, would not be an issue, because everything would continue to operate, but no legislation would be signed into law, a longer illness, incapacity or death of a President would result in the Vice President becoming acting President, Congress would then appoint a President and Vice President to complete the term, they could appoint the acting President as President and appoint a new Vice President, or appoint a new President and re-appoint the acting President as Vice President, or appoint a new President and Vice President. The only restriction would be that neither the President or Vice President could not be a member of either the house or senate. Congress would likely appoiint a Republican President and a Democrat Vice President, or vice verse.

By putting all departments under the House of Representatives, it would be much harder to shut down the government through assassination.....