Olbermann just made an excellent point.

[Pacifist Patriot]

If we had a multi-party parliamentary system like Great Britain, I think I agree the Bush administration would be out on their collective asses.

[tanyev]

1. Or their collective arses.

It would be nice, wouldn't it? *sigh*

[Warpy]

2. Parlimentary systems have advantages and disadvantages

The advantage is the "no confidence" vote that can call elections very quickly if the man the winning party has chosen to head the government is crooked, incompetent or insane (and we have a triple winner).

The disadvantage is that there is often no clear majority in a multiparty system and coalition governments have to be formed with splinter parties. Israel is a perfect example of that, and the small, right wing religiously based parties hold a disproportionate amount of power.

Our system would work perfectly well if we could get the GOP to stop misusing the impeachment process and making the Democrats afraid of it when it desperately needs to be used.

[Pacifist Patriot]

6. I agree. Every system has pros and cons.

[jgraz]

3. Bush's head would have exploded during the first question session

[originalpckelly]

4. Yeah, that Tony Blair's was thrown out the minute it looked like Iraq was wrong.

:eyes:

[Pacifist Patriot]

8. I think his party would lose a vote of confidence if he...

gave a speech advocating increasing troop levels while British forces participated in a raid on an Iranian or Syrian consulate.

[AlCzervik]

5. oh jeezus "gulf of Tonkin"

[ellisonz]

7. Alter said the comparison was strained.

:shrug:

[AlCzervik]

9. not so much imo, KO was dead on me thinks.