Complete and Utter Disfunction

It's really embarrassing when you think about it.

ILLINOIS
A corrupt governor is accused of trying to sell an appointment to the Senate. The state legislature refuses - and ultimately it is refusal - to do anything about it. They refused to impeach him a year ago. They refused to pass a law removing his appointment powers when he was arrested. They refused to impeach him after his arrest. In fact, they promised they would meet everyday business day, with only holidays off, to consider it. I know for sure they did not work the 19th, 22nd, and 26th. I'm not sure they worked at all last week. In fact, when the governor with a known taint ran for reelection almost every major politician in his party backed him over a credible candidate.

Now the tainted governor has appointed a long retired politician to the seat, retired mostly because he couldn't win a statewide election for a decade or more. The gov had the power because the state legislature refused to do anything about it. Now the Sec. of State won't sign the certification papers although as best I can tell he has no authority to refuse to sign them. The majority party in the Senate won't seat him because they say it isn't valid.


MINNESOTA
Another race is so close that after numerous recounts and challenges the Minnesota Board of Canvassers has declared the Democratic candidate to have won by 225 votes. The sore loser says that about 3 times as many ballot as the margin were improperly excluded from the recount. He vows to challenge in the courts. Discounting the excluded ballots this is election is a practical tie. The state's governor, that must sign the certification papers, is a member of the same political party as the loser. The governor won't sign the papers. The minority party in the Senate say they won't allow the declared winner to be seated.