Thank you, Teddy!

[thewayne]

"I didn't threaten to shut down the government the last time. I don't think we should ever shut down the government."
—Sen. Ted Cruz

'nuff said.

Comments

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Well, we'll be rid of Bachmann come the election: she's not running again. Teddy? He's going to be here a while. I wish people had to resign in order to run for President, then we'd be rid of several idiots.

I didn't know that about your budgeting process, that's pretty cool. One thing that I really like about England's election system is that apparently an election period only lasts for a month or so, I can't imagine how much of an uproar our politicians would make if such a thing were done, instead our elections are functionally over a year long.

[moiraj.livejournal.com]

We ripped off our political system from England pretty much wholesale, so our campaigns are pretty short, too, usually less than two months. A lot of Canadians think that campaigns must be less than two months, though that isn't the case. There's the potential for a campaign to last as long as twelve months, but I don't think that's ever happened. At this point, Canadians would be wondering what kind of work ethic politicians have if they can spend that much time on a campaign, and where they're getting their money from.

To be fair, though, you guys have a population ten times as large as ours, and more than five times the size of England, so it must be much harder to do things quickly.

[silveradept]

Not really. Most of our time is spent in primary elections, deciding which candidate from each party will compete for the equivalent of a riding. The actual party-versus-party conflicts are really only a few months long, and utterly vicious. If we could somehow keep all the buildup off the televisions, then we would also appear to have short elections.