Miscellaneous

There's at least one thing I can get behind McCain on

For those unfamiliar with British government, one of the great things our brothers of another mother do is to have the Prime Minister routinely go before Parliament for what's called Prime Minister's Questions, where an open discussion is held. It's often quite lively, particularly when Members of Parliament decide to take the PM to task on various things they've done.

Well last week, McCain said that, if he were to win the election this November, he'd like to do the same thing:

I will ask Congress to grant me the privilege of coming before both houses to take questions, and address criticism, much the same as the prime minister of Great Britain appears regularly before the House of Commons.

That is seriously fantastic, not just from an entertainment standpoint, but from a governance perspective as well, and I hope that Obama might consider something similar if he wins the November election (and, ok, I'll play along Hillary -- I hope you'll do it too, if you *cough* win in November).

Full post as published by Quiz Law on May 28, 2008 (boomark / email).