I realize the lag issue, but I was just making the joke that if** Lemur** had it their way consistently, it wouldn’t work.
Sir, I welcome your second, and suggest the option of .177 pistols at 100 paces, until honor is satisfied. Alternatively, 12ga at 5 paces.
BrainGlutton? I’m sure it works well. Personally, I’m in favor of instant-runoff voting, as well. Third parties are a healthy sign for a political system.
Frankly, I rather favor the British system wherein Question Time is a critical and crucial thing.
Too bad you ain’t in England. This is America, and we ain’t got a Parliament.
Well. Except for Clinton.
“They still call it the White House, but that’s a temporary condition, too. Can you dig it, CC?”
(George Clinton, of course.)
Divided government can, and does, happen in Australia, since Australia combines a parliamentary system (in which the lower house choose the executive) with a federal system in which the upper house, theoretically representing the states, has real power.
At present, the Labor Party controls the Australian House of Representatives, and hence the executive, but only has 28 seats out of 76 in the Australian Senate. Until June 30, the opposition Liberal-National coalition has a majority of 39 seats in the Senate.
(But this could not happen in a unitary system, such as the UK or New Zealand, and would not matter so much with a politically weak upper house, such as the Canadian Senate).
And a lot of voters in Australia do strategically vote to try to help bring about a divided system, in voting for the upper & lower house of the Federal Parliament, or in voting for state Parliaments to get a different party from that in power federally.
[random] Hey, my dad’s on there! (He ran for Congress in the 11th District of Virginia in 2000.) Unfortunately, Wikipedia seems to have confused him with a Canadian hockey player.
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When he was VP under Jefferson and Madison? THAT didn’t make the history books. 