You have just proven my point, pBurns, with your comment about the Duffel bag.  But it is curious that you would say that the current Senate is the best non partisan working model.  The appointments are nothing but patronage.

Unusual that with your credentials you refer to the Founding Fathers, an American locution.  The generally accepted term here is Fathers of Confederation.  That said, I know exactly what they had in mind, and our version of it differs greatly from that vision.