Sure it looked cute in the window, but it eats a ton of bamboo and craps on the shag carpeting.
This is part and parcel of the Madisonian checks on the majority. The set terms in office mean that when you have a "bad" election result, you're stuck with the outcome for a good long spell. Meanwhile, Steven Harper's government has fallen in Canada and my guess is the Cameron's government (particularly the Lib Dem wing) would not survive a vote of confidence at the moment.
Perhaps it's not fair to roundly describe independent voters as stupid. I know a lot of very, very smart independent voters. But they tend to be stupid about politics. They tend to think that NOT voting is exercising their voice, when in fact it cedes their voice to those who do vote. They also tend to fall into the false equivalency trap of "both sides do it". (They sound a lot like pundits and journalists, when you think about it.)
The fact is, at the moment, the Republican party is unfit to govern. They are so whacked out insane right now, I actually feel sorry for John Boehner, who staring at a governmental showdown engineered by his whackadoodle caucus.
Which brings me to Michelle Bachmann.
Honestly, I can see a scenario whereby she wins the GOP nomination for President. She wins Iowa, I think. And New Hampshire's GOP is pretty messed up right now, so she might win there, though more likely she finishes a strong second to Mittens. Although I think New Hanpshire has an open primary and with Obama not likely to be challenged, that's a real wildcard. South Carolina also would seem fertile territory for her brand of crazy.
And if La Palin throws her weight behind her fellow traveller..
The good news is that would insure a Democratic victory and the chance to consolidate the meager gains of the first two years of the Obama Administration. The bad news is that one of the two major political parties will have nominated a lunatic.
What a quandary...
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