Comments on: Is Congress Necessary? http://www.pensitoreview.com/2006/01/07/is-congress-necessary/ News and Opinion on Politics and Media Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:12:35 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: weathervane http://www.pensitoreview.com/2006/01/07/is-congress-necessary/comment-page-1/#comment-32336 weathervane Thu, 12 Jan 2006 18:47:16 +0000 http://www.pensitoreview.com/2006/01/07/is-congress-necessary/#comment-32336 Bush is hardly to blame for a Constitution that is deficient. The US Constitution needs to be amended to allow for a Parliamentary system, as in Englnad, where the Prime Minister is subject to immediate recall...The US Constitution makes several unwarranted assumptions, among them that the executive will be a rational individual, that Congress will have integrity and a backbone, and that the media will not be owned by the elite. False assumptions. The US needs a new and different Constitution to avoid the situation where an incompetent boob can reign as King. Bush is hardly to blame for a Constitution that is deficient. The US Constitution needs to be amended to allow for a Parliamentary system, as in Englnad, where the Prime Minister is subject to immediate recall…The US Constitution makes several unwarranted assumptions, among them that the executive will be a rational individual, that Congress will have integrity and a backbone, and that the media will not be owned by the elite. False assumptions. The US needs a new and different Constitution to avoid the situation where an incompetent boob can reign as King.

]]> By: Jon http://www.pensitoreview.com/2006/01/07/is-congress-necessary/comment-page-1/#comment-25429 Jon Sun, 08 Jan 2006 19:20:35 +0000 http://www.pensitoreview.com/2006/01/07/is-congress-necessary/#comment-25429 I was just thinking about Jennifer the other day. Wonder what she's up to. (I misremembered her name as Sullivan and have often confused it with Jennifer Saunders of "AbFab" fame.) I believe when Bush I was VP Jennifer ran his office at the Senate. Not sure what she did during Bush Sr's presidency. LA Weekly published the story of their on-going secret romance just before the '88 election but nobody picked it up. Have also heard that the Washington Post was going to run it at about the same time but th publisher, Kay Graham, interceded. I was just thinking about Jennifer the other day. Wonder what she’s up to. (I misremembered her name as Sullivan and have often confused it with Jennifer Saunders of “AbFab” fame.)

I believe when Bush I was VP Jennifer ran his office at the Senate. Not sure what she did during Bush Sr’s presidency.

LA Weekly published the story of their on-going secret romance just before the ‘88 election but nobody picked it up. Have also heard that the Washington Post was going to run it at about the same time but th publisher, Kay Graham, interceded.

]]> By: Stephen Kriz http://www.pensitoreview.com/2006/01/07/is-congress-necessary/comment-page-1/#comment-25413 Stephen Kriz Sun, 08 Jan 2006 15:46:53 +0000 http://www.pensitoreview.com/2006/01/07/is-congress-necessary/#comment-25413 As Robert Parry has noted and documented so thoroughly, the Bush family operates under a presumption of secrecy and privilege. They think they are not to be held to the same standards as other people - and they aren't! That is one reason that George H.W. Bush's long-time paramour, Jennifer Fitzgerald, is not a household name like Monica Lewinsky. The media knew, and never bothered to hold him accountable, just like his son is never held accountable for any of his misdeeds... As Robert Parry has noted and documented so thoroughly, the Bush family operates under a presumption of secrecy and privilege. They think they are not to be held to the same standards as other people – and they aren’t!

That is one reason that George H.W. Bush’s long-time paramour, Jennifer Fitzgerald, is not a household name like Monica Lewinsky. The media knew, and never bothered to hold him accountable, just like his son is never held accountable for any of his misdeeds…

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