Legislators pass laws governing their own behavior and then "call for" an oversight commitee to monitor compliance.  Those committees fail to meet, if indeed they're ever established at all.

I have a gut feel - unverifiable by me without an enormous amount of reserch that I just can't devote any time to - that very nearly 100% of the legislation passed in DC is redundant, contradictory, of unenforcible (if not all three at once).  Add to that their propensity for vague language that abdicates1 interpretation of the law to the Courts, and your have the enormous pile of crap that is our legal code today.

I've thought that the American legislation is rather subjective compared to for example Finnish legislation. I think that's why SCOTUS nominations are so politically hot.

What comes to contradictions, the army of judges create an artificial hierarchy in legislation. I mean, telling which law applies before another. If that's not sufficient, there will a new software patch to fix the bug. Ooops. I mean amendment or SCOTUS decision.

I think the heavy subjective power of a judge is mandatory to make the judiciary yield results. It shouldn't be but it is impossible to change the system.

But from the good side, the American court system has better coverage than the European. A lawsuit against tobacco industry has been impossible in Europe and a consumer is protected better (hot coffee and McDonald's).

At the moment one of the problems here seem to be which cases end to a court and which don't. Finnish spies sued an alleged East German spy without proper evidence. Police sued an alleged murderer without proper evidence. In the case the head of investigation committed an obvious perjury. It should have been handled in another court but instead there was an excuse in yellow press.

I'm watching the new Saturday morning show "Weekends with Maury & Connie" on MSNBC (10:00 a.m. Eastern Time) and it's great!  They are both liberal and present things the way we see them.  What a breath of fresh air!  I hope the show does well.  I knew the show was going to be good when they started out letting everyone know Connie Cheung is friends with George Clooney and doesn't like how Bill O'Reilly talks about him.  Their intro was about Bush's illicit wiretapping scheme--their comment, "And you thought Bush wasn't listening to us!"   Hilarious!  

It's opposite of the business block on Fox on Saturday morning, which also begins at 10:00 a.m.  I'm tapping that block, but I'm going to start watching this show first because the political views presented on Fox can be so obnoxious. (Except for Neil Cavuto, who is conservative but will listen to other viewpoints.)

Awe shucks!  It's only a 30 minute show!

That's a good one.