Posted on 08/20/2011 4:28:48 PM PDT by Lazlo in PA
Let's see....hmmmm.....Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece. The PIIGS, except for Spain, a Constitutional Monarchy.
Yep, they all got Prime Ministers.
Fareed is an Ivy League Idiot (Yale).
You hit the nail exactly on the head.
More worrisome, he is given a media platform (CNN) in which to position himself as an “expert.” If you think he is just another commentator, watch him more closely. He has a very specific agenda, Take note of who his guests are and how he positions them around particular issues. Zakaria is a very, very slick propagandist.
He is also a consultant to Obama. This should be of concern to every American.
If he does not value, respect, and hold dear the Constitution of the United States, then he needs to have his Muslim Jihadist ass kicked out of this country, and quickly. He is attempting to influence the very political system of our country.
Maybe we will still have a country, its Constitution, and G-D’s Blessings if we take our own heads from out of our posteriors, and drop-kick our enemies’ a$$es out of the US, instead of opening our doors to them and giving them carte blanche to destroy us.
We, The People became lazy, and allowed all of this to happen. We allowed the MSM to be bought by hostile outside interests who turned them into propaganda machines; we allowed hostile foreign governments to buy our assets and use them against us; we allowed the politicians to drop the anti-trust laws and underminded competition in the marketplace; we allowed the government to permit companies to send our jobs overseas, killed our manufacturing base, and deprived Americans of work .
We permitted the politicians to allow this to happen. We trusted them to make sure American interests were not jeopardized, and we did not call anyone on the carpet for it, let alone jail them for it.
This is what happens when people take freedom for granted, and vote for people who do not hold both the love and fear of G-D in their hearts and minds.
Forgive me for this rant. I am thoroughly disgusted.
So it's Obama's fault?
Fareed is a shaved Muslim monkey.
I swear to God, I go to stores and everyone is Asian, Hispanic or Indian/Arab/Persian...
Who did this to MY ANCESTORS AND ME?
Why do third world maggots infest cities and towns built out of nothing to become the best in the world to bring it down to their “sh*t where you eat” culture?
Why do we bow to a Marxist Muslim? Why do unions and self-loathing Kapos like Soros tell us how we live?
A fat AA hire at the EPA is shutting down coal production and an anchor baby, Salazar is stopping our oil while paying for Brazil’s and China’s?
The Anglos need to step up and realize that yes, there are good people and bad people of all stripes, but you will be DHIMMY CANNON FODDER for the Marxists, Muslims or Mexicans...
They have no apple pie, GM or Disneyland, they have sh*t.
Stop being afraid, F these maggots.
Time to step up and fill the void of Lindsay Graham and the loser, limp-wristed GOP (GOOP) do for our nation.
I want Mayberry, but without the Libtards Andy Griffith and Ron Howard.
So ... You want Floyd the Barber and Goober?
“Oh yeah, I can see a government of six or seven political groups trying to make a coalition then a few months later have to have another election to form a new government that you’d have to vote a new one again and again ... rinse, repeat.”
I find that quite preferable compared to the last 20 years,
You are, sort of, correct.
Our system was designed for a limited government that did very few things. The whole point of all those lovely "checks and balances" is to keep the government from functioning efficiently.
This works quite well as long as the government doesn't do much. It doesn't work at all well when the government is trying to run a social-democrat Euro-style welfare state.
Which leads to the government ignoring the Constitution in order to do what it was elected to do.
I contend we need to either return the government to its original limited functions (my preference) or completely revamp the system so that an activist government can function reasonably efficiently.
A parliamentary system has very few formal checks and balances. A party that wins a majority can promptly implement the program it ran on in full. This obviously has both advantages and disadvantages.
Americans don’t like voting in the first place. How do you think they’d like it having to vote for a new PM every several months or so, having political advert’s on TV and plastered on walls day in and day out?
Otis and Aunt B.
Otis and Aunt B.
certainly a big reason most don’t like to vote is the realization that choosing only between Democrats and Republicans is often not worth the effort
But then in parliamentary governments you have six or eight parties equally not worth the effort - then you’d have them vote a coalition to form a government. When there’s a no confidence vote it’s back to the polls again.
As long as it’s not Charlene Darling or Ernest T. Bass.
Your explanation finally makes sense of what we are facing.
In other words, the intended limited government got to the point, little by little, one step at a time, where it’s become like a parliamentary system government, without the checks and balances of the parliamentary system, which are, if nothing else, the possibility of a quick change of the ruling elite.
Yeah, that’s more or less the idea. In one election you can turn a parliamentary system around.
Ouch!
Took a minute to figure out what you meant by “what he usually chokes on”.
Perhaps that’s why he immigrated to the U.S. since they kill people like him in muzzie nations. Yet, asshats like Fareed remain silent about that fact. What a coward. Typical liberal POS.
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