Dubya 2.0?
Thursday, December 04, 2008
You would think it was George Bush with shenanigans like this. If the US Constitution had such a provision you know damn well the GOP would have tried to use it. Anyways for those who have not been following the Canadian Circus, it goes something like this. The conservative Prime Minister recently won re-election over a piss poor opposition candidate. Since then the opposition Liberals, New Democrats and the separatist Bloc Quebecois all to the left of the Conservatives had signed a deal to defeat the Conservatives and put forward a Liberal-New Democrat coalition to form a new government. To avoid the vote, the current PM Stephen Harper had Parliament suspended until next year hoping by then the other parties would turn on each other and forget about the no confidence vote.
This is one of the things I love about other countries, within Parliment you can vote no confidence and boot people out. It makes for great political theatre and you don't have to wait 4 years to do it. Unfortunately that is not an option here in the US. You can draw up articles of impeachment but with a 2 party system they tend not to get very far.
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4B34BC20081204
Posted by mardenhill 12/04/2008 10:14:00 PM
Labels: Politics
