No Confidence

From here

A Jolly Good Show, but the Wrong Side of the Pond

[SIZE=2] By Dana Milbank
Tuesday, June 12, 2007; Page A02[/SIZE]

Give him a sword and a tunic, and Chuck Schumer would have made a passable Oliver Cromwell as he stood on the Senate floor yesterday.
The New York Democrat, playing a British parliamentarian, had come to seek a "vote of no confidence" in Attorney General Alberto Gonzales -- and thereby deal a blow to the imperial reign of President Bush the Second.

"This is not the British Parliament, and I hope it never will become the British Parliament," protested Sen. Trent Lott (Miss.), the chamber's No. 2 Republican. "Are we going to bring the president in here and have a question period like the prime minister has in Great Britain?"

Sounds like a good idea to me.:thumb:

I heard George use the phrase "my government" recently so I guess Schumer isn't the only one confused about their system of government.

I was really hoping for "YOU ARE..........OBSOLETE!"

*chanting in background"

"OBSOLETE! OBSOLETE! OBSOLETE!"

Griff;353925 wrote:

I heard George use the phrase "my government" recently so I guess Schumer isn't the only one confused about their system of government.

If I can say my government, why can't Bush. Isn't he still an American, a voting American?

The phrase is generally used in a parlimentary system where the PM puts together a voting block to get his program through. In the States, the Pres gets to fill a bunch of seats in the executive branch but, rumor has it, does not control the legislative function. Either George feels he owns the whole government or he's been hanging with Blair too much.

Cromwell dissolved the "Rump" Parliament in order to become Lord Protector - effectively setting himself up for 5 years the only dictator Britain has ever known. He wasn't challenging a tyrant (Charles I was executed in 1649) he was overthrowing the Republic.

Not sure that the comparison really works...

Griff;354071 wrote:

The phrase is generally used in a parlimentary system where the PM puts together a voting block to get his program through. In the States, the Pres gets to fill a bunch of seats in the executive branch but, rumor has it, does not control the legislative function. Either George feels he owns the whole government or he's been hanging with Blair too much.

C'mon, you've never said my government? I'll bet everyone I know has, at one time or another... often as, I fear my government.

In context George was talking about his administration. He's just parroting Tony. His government is the same as my government, but his administration is not my administration.

Well, I don't know what the rest of ya think, but my government just sucks balls right now. The local one is alright, but the state and the feds...pbbbt!