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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (414554)	6/12/2003 4:06:49 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Its much more difficult to take out the PM than it is the President. It is? It has happened THREE TIMES since 1885. three successful votes of no confidence since 1885. wikipedia.org In addition, during that period, 2 British PMs were forced to resign by there own parties to avoid a vote of no confidence. During that period in US history, there has been one impeachment of a US President and no convictions. During all of US history there have been only 2 impeachments with no convictions. However Blair has lost confidence among the people. Then he should have lost a vote or have been forced to resign. No, we get plagued by gov't like Bush and Reagan.......cowboys who like bombs and ruling the world. Great non sequitir. But still a non sequitir. However, some leaders are good for war time, others for times of peace. Or the Brits had decided they wanted to wander in the wilderness of the socialist swamp. The condition of national economies rises and falls with the wind. Japan was on the ascendency in the 70s and 80s, and the US economy was considered stressed and antiquated. The German economy was considered the wunderkind economy of the post war period and now is experiencing problems. The right likes to blame it on socialism. And the right is right. The Japanese managed about a 10-year run of fortune. As often happens, they were overcome with their success and pushed things too far- -the same failure we committed in the 1990's. the US economy was considered stressed and antiquated THe main problem of the Japanese economy is the rigidity built into it and the Japanese political system. We have managed to remain flexible- -no thanks to our leftist friends. As long as we keep that, we will get out of even the messes left by broken bubbles. Honesty and morality are the key. Chamberlain and Jimmy Carter were honest men. Quite a recommendation of that "virtue" in international politics, eh? Sorry, you got this wrong.