Georgetown Professor of Law argues in the New York Times "Let's Give Up on the Constitution"

As the nation teeters at the edge of fiscal chaos, observers are reaching the conclusion that the American system of government is broken. But almost no one blames the culprit: our insistence on obedience to the Constitution, with all its archaic, idiosyncratic and downright evil provisions.

Grotesque. And a fitting culmination to the political world of 2012.