I’m envious of the United Kingdom’s parliamentary system, which provides the ability to erase quickly major mistakes that were made.
Consider the case of Liz Truss, now the answer to a trivia question. Her 44-day reign as U.K. prime minister is the shortest in history for that nation. In that short span, there was a 10-day period of inaction due to the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
Basically, Truss resigned after being advised to do so by her own Conservative party and getting indications a no-confidence vote was all but certain.
Truss and her administration showed themselves to be financial lightweights, trying to stimulate the economy and reduce taxes even as the Bank of England was doing a Federal Reserve tightening dance trying to get inflation under control.
English bonds (gilts) went into freefall over the mixed messages as interest rates increased dramatically and the pound dropped big-time. The Bank of England had to step in to attempt to restore the system and bail out massive pension funds that were taking on water.
Truss was a dead woman walking politically, sort of like Joe Biden.
There are lots of other similarities. Biden, like Truss, seems to know about as much about economics as his average welfare-recipient voter.
The economy is great, the Clueless One bragged between slurps of an oversized ice cream cone recently.
This must amuse the respondents in the latest POLITICO/Morning Consult poll (a hard-left duo), which found more than 90 percent see inflation and economic decline as their chief concerns ahead of mid-term elections.
They weren’t talking about Truss’s economy.
Imagine if Democrats had the stones to advise Clueless Joe to move on and let a sentient human being occupy the Oval Office. Of course, this would mean bidding adieu to VP Kamala Harris, too. Talk about a two-for-one deal.
Imagine if there was a mechanism to remove unpopular, inept presidents without needing to endure four long years of their foolhardiness. We’re not talking sham impeachments.
We have to settle for hopes that mid-term elections will transfer control of the U.S. House or Senate to the opposition and effectively neuter Clueless Joe and his ability to inflict harm on the nation.
How much more direct it would be to allow for the removal of an underperforming, overmatched, incompetent president, with that president’s party taking the lead in cleaning up its mess.
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