And you still have the question of who inherits in a hereditary system. In practice it tends to be unclear.
I'd actually say the constitution and judiciary did alright. Bush had been dealt a fair number of set backs by the courts. The real problem was that Congress completely failed to be a check. Not that there's much that can be quickly done about it, but this has shown major weaknesses of a Presidential versus a Parliamentary system.
Obviously even now the Dems are having a hard time ending the war in Iraq, but they've quickly dug into Bush on a whole range of fronts. I stand by my guess that by the end of the month we're going to have a new Attorney General. Considering the new one will have to be confirmed, there's likely going to be quite an improvement. New Sec. Def Gates is leaps and better than Rumsfeld as he showed by actually firing people during the Walter Reed Scandal.
But yeah, the 2004 election showed definite structural weaknesses in the American system. This is why I don't think this particular quote will probably hurt Guiliani all that much in the primary.
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Date: 2007-03-22 04:49 pm (UTC)I'd actually say the constitution and judiciary did alright. Bush had been dealt a fair number of set backs by the courts. The real problem was that Congress completely failed to be a check. Not that there's much that can be quickly done about it, but this has shown major weaknesses of a Presidential versus a Parliamentary system.
Obviously even now the Dems are having a hard time ending the war in Iraq, but they've quickly dug into Bush on a whole range of fronts. I stand by my guess that by the end of the month we're going to have a new Attorney General. Considering the new one will have to be confirmed, there's likely going to be quite an improvement. New Sec. Def Gates is leaps and better than Rumsfeld as he showed by actually firing people during the Walter Reed Scandal.
But yeah, the 2004 election showed definite structural weaknesses in the American system. This is why I don't think this particular quote will probably hurt Guiliani all that much in the primary.