Here in New York State, home of the country's most dysfunctional legislature, we have a very effective system of checks and balances -- better than the federal government.
Why? Because the Attorney General and the Comptroller are elected, and are not beholden to the Governor or the Legislature. We get the best people for the job and they act as stringent watchdogs (because that's how they get re-elected!).
The United States deserves the same system, even though it requires a Constitutional Amendment.
This would end all this appalling nonsense where the President has to appoint the man whose sworn duty it is to prosecute him (and therefore the President only appoints crooked lackeys).
We're not going to get a real Attorney General until 2009. With an elected Attorney General, we'd already have one. And Bush would have been prosecuted long, long ago.