Republican Sam Brownback will drop out of the presidential campaign tomorrow, according to people close to the Kansas senator. It is curious that a Republican as conservative as Brownback is having so much trouble keeping pace in the money primary with Rudolph Giuliani, someone that has been consistently liberal on many social issues.
Will the lack of financial support by the GOP base in 2007 translate to voter apathy and ultimate defeat in 2008?
Too bad this country doesn’t have the political framework to support an experiment with coalition government in the legislative branch, and make the executive subject to a vote of no confidence, beyond the creaky mechanism of impeachment.
Why look for a restructuring when all they really need to do is find the balls to overide
a presidential veto when it matters.
How often does that happen when as long as they can demonstrate to their constituencies that they either supported or opposed the legislation vetoed they can take it to the bank and sleep at night.
The rest of us be damned.
I think it’s time that the electorate of the U.S. consider alternatives to the two-party system.
Surely there are better ways to represent the will of the people than the ineffectual system we have now– government by corporations, for corporations, and of corporations.
Like asking Dracula to surrender the keys to the blood bank after having held them for so many years???????
The system we have now certainly works to the advantage of corporations– their money efficiently corrupts our public ‘servants’ in Congress– and they even got a beachhead in the White House when they installed the Bush/Cheney junta.
Real change can only come about when a revolutionary impulse rises from the people themselves.
…..and most of them are too busy watching “American Idol”, following the exploits of “Paris Hilton”, or taking Lexapro because the Mets tanked, to give a damn.
It’s Rupert Murdoch’s idea of heaven.;-)
…as well as those who rely on what he publishes as their source of information.