No checks and balances huh? I guess I missed something? Did we lose our Republican House and Senate? Our democratic Prez? Our balanced Supreme Court? We've checked and balanced ourselves into gridlock for eight years in case you haven't been following along. The world laughing at how soft we've become? You mean following our treaties, international agreements and laws? The world will truly be laughing at us if we elect Trump and mark our national decline into idiocy.