Historian Shearer Davis Bowman wrote, "The stability and health of representative, democratic government depends on effective political compromise. 'It is their willingness to compromise that makes politicians so indispensable and so untrustworthy,' historian James Oakes explains."
When it comes to budgeting, I would support a constitutional amendment to the effect that "if a Congress fails to adopt a budget before the start of the fiscal year, then every member of Congress shall be ejected from office as if they had died, and forever forbidden from ever holding any office at the federal level for the rest of their natural lives." We could call it the "civil death amendment." I'd wager that would fix this particular problem.
