Presidential vs. Parliamentary systems

[Mordecai]

Parliamentary all the way

[Mordecai]

*looks at the do-nothing, good-for-nothing 112th and 113th Congresses*

Presidential all the way.

lol

Do you know anything about the operations of a parliamentary system at all?

Maybe he prefers a President Obama to a hypothetical Prime Minister Boehner.

[Mordecai]

*looks at the do-nothing, good-for-nothing 112th and 113th Congresses*

Presidential all the way.

lol

Do you know anything about the operations of a parliamentary system at all?

Maybe he prefers a President Obama to a hypothetical Prime Minister Boehner.

Would the Tea Party be able to force a snap election in 2010?

You mean by filibustering the Senate? It's possible. Something similar happened in 1975 in Australia when the Coalition (Liberals and Nationals, the conservatives) were blocking appropriations bills in the Senate in order to force Prime Minister and Labor Party Leader Gough Whitlam to call an election.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional_crisis

What ended up happening is that the Prime Minister was dismissed by the Governor-General (the Australian representative for the Queen) who then appointed the Opposition Leader and Liberal Party Leader Malcolm Fraser as the new Prime Minister. Fraser got the bills passed to fund the government and then there was a double-dissolution where both houses of Parliament were completely dissolved and a new election was held.

Would Boehner even last a year as Prime Minister?

Probably not.