Americans, we'd like to make lists. We'd like to rank things. If you turn on any sports

radio show in the country, you'll get to listen to ball players being ranked who never played

against one another. Who was the greatest of all time? Who was the best fighter? Who was the best

basketball player? The best ballerina? It doesn't matter. We can't help but rank things as Americans.

Who was the best president? Who was the worst? Well, the answer of that, of course, is the guy who

was just re-elected to a second term after his first with 49% of the vote. The 45th president was the worst in history. We'll see how he

combines with the 47. This is the warning. The United States government is sustained by a principle

we call checks and balances. Do you know, for example, that the presidency, the executive branch,

is not more powerful than the legislative branch, or the judicial branch. They're all equal.

They all have powers that are enumerated, to fancy word for listed, listed in the Constitution.

That's what a lot of the legal fights before the Supreme Court are about.

Who has power to do what?

Now, how many of you thought that a United States Senator works for the President.

They don't.

Co-equal.

Each state sends two representatives to work in the United States Senate to vote on life

and death matters, to cooperate with the President, to oppose him when necessary.

But the Senators, the state sends, just like the members of

Congress had elects, and just like the president it chooses in the American system, though they

have different powers, they have different roles, they have different responsibilities, they are all

equal. Now, one of the responsibilities that Donald Trump has is to appoint a cabinet.

And so immediately in the media, the ranking game starts. Who's the most incompetent? Is it Tulsi

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