[trevoragilbert]

It's not a fallacy if one of the complaints is "routine practice in American politics." It's directly pointing out that it isn't routine by accident, it's routine by design from the beginning.

[slg]

>It's directly pointing out that it isn't routine by accident, it's routine by design from the beginning.

That isn't a defense of the quality of the practice. Something can have a bad "design from the beginning".