Posted on 08/31/2011 5:50:02 AM PDT by Evil Slayer
There was Fareed Zakaria on his program GPS last weekend banging on about the superiority of the British parliamentary system over America's presidential one. Good luck with that excuse. There's such a delicious irony in the CNN/Newsweek commentator's suggestion that it's hard not to snicker.
Under a parliamentary system, Barack Obama would have been ousted as prime minister when the Republicans took back the House of Representatives in November 2010. At a minimum, a Prime Minister Obama today would be in the process of being defenestrated by his own parliamentary party as part of a repositioning of the Dems for the 2012 election. Faced with Mr. Obama's dismal poll ratings, Hillary and the president's fellow Democrats in Congress would be rising up to "do him down," as the Brits say.
(Maybe she still will. Senator Eugene McCarthy didn't even announce that he was challenging President Lyndon Baines Johnson for the 1968 Democratic nomination until November 30, 1967. Four months later, LBJ withdrew from the race.).
A British prime minister is head of government because he's been elected to that post by his own party's MPs, not by the voters. Thus, the brutal fact is that a prime minister can at any time be given the bum's rush from 10 Downing Street by a revolt in his own ranks. In the last 21 years, two British prime ministers have been ousted by a rival via exactly that route.
The first was the UK's greatest conservative post-war leader, Margaret Thatcher, in 1990 -- after eleven years in office. It happened again in 1997 to the man who ousted her, John Major. Far behind in the polls, virtually certain of defeat at the next required election, both PMs were forced out by their own parliamentary colleagues.
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His Blackness is the ONLY thing keeping him in office and NO ONE willing to Primary him! Hillary is Petrified of the Blacklash that would happen.
Plugs is the best insurance policy Obama could ever buy.
The thoroughly corrupt MSM is the only thing keeping Obama in power.
Plus all the Soros money that gets “donated” by all those imaginary individual donors.
Hillary is not the only one petrified from a Blacklash.
The whole country, after seeing sample flash mobs in action, is petrified as it envisions swarms, numbering in hundreds of thousands unleashed on unprepared business and residential communities.
I thought it was armour plated vehicles and an army of security guards.
I don’t get it. Is the writer really advocating that we toss the Constitution in favor of the British Parliamentary System?
If so we would have gone hard-core Communist after the two years of Obama, Reid and Pelosi.
Not at all. You need to read the whole article from the link.
He argues our system is more stable--since, short of impeachment, a president cannot suddenly have a "no confidence" vote and be thrown from office--as in parlimentary systems.
Regarding O, he indicates we just must bear it (even without grinning) until '12...as that is the system the Founders intended.
I think it was also in The American Thinker in which another columnist suggested that if the Dems want to take a shot at salvaging their 2012 prospects, instead of open revolt (which would kill them with blacks) they should throw their weight behind the “Gunwalker” investigation. There is far more evidence here, of far more serious misconduct, that could put Obama and Holder in orange jumpsuits. This would be the perfect way to force “O” to resign without an open rebellion.
Good idea !
For the Dems, such a ploy would be the least worst way of defenestrating Obama. This spares them from any open displays of disloyalty.
It just might actually happen. Surely they must recall how much their blind, suicidal loyalty to the Clintons in ‘98 cost them.
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