Our founders never planned for the entire cabinet to be corrupted by potus

and certainly couldn't imagine half the senate being total cowards, after risking their lives to throw off british tyranny.

Barr is getting away with stonewalling the house and senate from providing information needed for investigations.

I wonder if public anger will embolden the house to impeach them all: Barr, Pompeo, Pense, MsConnell. When they refuse this next round of subpoenas, the house will have to start holding people in contempt, and hold the impeachment vote.

Until someone's seriously held responsible, no one will cooperate.

We were headed toward impeachment all along.

And we still have no confidence that they won't cheat in all future elections.

"A republic, if we can keep it." Ben Franklin 1787

http://www.whatwouldthefoundersthink.com/a-republic-if-you-can-keep-it

The Founders’ intent at the national level was a representative republic. The word democracy is not mentioned in the Constitution. Most of the Founders distrusted pure democracy. Some had been frightened by Shays Revolt and equated democracy with mob rule. Others were convinced by Madison that different factions would come together until they formed a majority, and then take advantage of those who were not members of their coalition. In fact, Madison showed that throughout history, this phenomenon had destroyed every experiment in democracy.

John Adams wrote that “There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide,” and James Madison wrote in Federalist 10 that “Democracies have, in general, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.” The reason pure democracies fail is that majorities learn that they can legally take property and/or liberties away from others. Those subjected to abuse can be anyone outside the majority coalition, and their minority status can be based on race, religion, wealth, political affiliation, or even which city or state they reside in. Demagogic leaders become adept at appealing to the emotions of jealousy, avarice, and entitlement. They also denigrate opponents in order to justify prejudicial actions taken by the majority. Soon, oppression of minority classes causes enough conflicts to collapse the democratic process.

A major difference between a republic and a democracy is immediacy. The Founders wanted laws made by representatives in order to put a buffer between popular passions and legislation. In a democracy, decisions are made in the heat of the moment, while periodic elections in a republic provide a cooling off period. To a great extent, democracies are ruled by feelings, while in a republic, the rule of law governs. In a republic, politicians can take principled actions that go against the will of many of their constituents with the knowledge that they will be judged by all the actions they take during their entire term in office. Political leaders are also given time to explain the reasons for their actions.