Wouldn't it be nice to have a REAL American Spring,

[merrily]

20. Agree, though my comment went to the legislative.

And, unless the legislative controls the judiciary via impeachment, there's nothing we can do about that branch.

A while back, a couple of men wrote a book about impeachment, saying that the Framers intended it to be used as an ordinary tool not as the untouchable thing we view it as today.

That was probably a better thing in 1789 than today because state legislatures or only a very select few individual voters and electors, had any say at all. So, if impeachment of Presidents were frequent then, it would not have been overturning the will of the populace as a whole. However, even today, the people have only the most theoretical say in who sits on the federal bench. The Executive and federal legislatures put them there, but they don't remove them. So, there is no control whatever for the people, even a theoretical one.