WASHINGTON -- How serious is the "thumpin"' the Republicans took on Tuesday? Losing one house is significant but hardly historic. Losing both houses, however, is defeat of a different order of magnitude, the equivalent in a parliamentary system of a vote of no confidence. On Tuesday, Democrats took control of the House and the Senate. As of this writing, they won 29 House seats (with a handful still in the balance), slightly below the post-1930 average for the six-year itch in a two-term presidency. They took the Senate by the thinnest of margins -- a one-vote majority, delivered to them by a margin of 7,188 votes in Virginia and 2,847 in Montana.
In a parliamentary system of government, a vote of no confidence has a simple outcome. The government falls, elections are held and a new government takes office. The voters spoke on Tuesday, and they gave the mayor, the City Council and the city administration a resounding vote of no confidence.
Czech: No confidence PRAGUE -- The Czech government collapsed Tuesday after losing a parliamentary no-confidence vote over its handling of the economic crisis.
Today Lebanon is bracing for a showdown over the presidency. It could be a bloody summer, as the presidential election looms in late September. The president is appointed by a majority vote in Parliament. After the last parliamentary election, in June 2005, Hariri's Future Movement and its allies won seventy-two seats in the 128-member legislature. But with several defections, [Walid Eido]'s killing, and that of another legislator last November, whose seat remains unfilled, the parliamentary majority is down to sixty-eight. If the majority loses another four members - either by death or defection - it will no longer be able to determine the next president. "Eido was assassinated to reduce the parliamentary majority in order to bring the government down," Samir Geagea, leader of the Leba...
... could fall in a parliamentary no-confidence vote. Siniora's twenty-four-member cabinet, has be...
How serious is the "thumpin' " the Republicans took on Tuesday? Losing one house is significant but hardly historic. Losing both houses, however, is defeat of a different order of magnitude, the equivalent in a parliamentary system of a vote of no confidence. On Tuesday, Democrats took control of the House and the Senate. They took the Senate by the thinnest of margins - a one-vote majority, delivered to them by a margin of 7,188 votes in Virginia and 2,847 in Montana.
I Political Economy and its Relationship to Separation of Powers - A Political Economy - B The Relationship Between - II Evidence for the Thesis: Basic Separation of Powers in a Number of States - A Comparison of the US Presidential System with Parliamentarianism in Great Britain - B New Zealand - C Comparison of Westminster Parliamentarianism with German "Constrained" Parliamentarianism or Kanzlerdemokratie - D The French "Mixed" or "Presidential-Parliamentary" Model - E Summary of Basic Lawmaking Structures - III Complicating The Picture: Adding Other Factors Affecting Concentration of Lawmaking Power - A Judicial Review - B Federalism - C Executive Lawmaking - IV Concluding Explanations: A More Precise Statement of the ...
...In the case of a vote of no-confidence, the Prime Minister and Cabinet (...
Pakistan feud should prompt U.S. reflection The latest friendly fire incident in Pakistan has plunged the already strained relationship between the United States and Pakistan to a new low.
... the regime may well ignore the parliamentary vote, it clearly believes that Britain will be the... attempts to pass a vote of no- confidence on his government. In his farewell speech, he prom...
President Obama's first postelection effort to strike a deal with Republicans is on the line in the tax-cut debate, where he finds himself fighting House Democrats who say he conceded too much to the GOP on an estate-tax cut. Even as the Senate voted to advance the deal Mr. Obama and Republicans cut last week, House leaders' intense resistance to the estate-tax provisions not only threatens the deal, but could undercut the president's own promise to work with the ascendant GOP in the next Congress.
...It's the parliamentary equivalent of a vote of no confidence because who ...
Not everyone is as sentimental about the town the media love to call The Big Easy (locals are divided about the nickname's legitimacy). A friend with a longer city history than mine calls her "an old whore gone bad in the teeth." Bourbon Street can be hard and nasty, Mardi Gras attracts every unsavory lowlife in a thousand-mile radius; the poverty in many neighborhoods approaches Third World hopelessness. This is the town where even the most cautious tourist may have made his first acquaintance with the handgun as a bargaining chip in a painful transaction. Yet most of the natives who could afford to be kind to strangers--and many who couldn't--were preternaturally kind, so inclusive and permissive that the stranger felt as if he'd been living his everyday life in a straitjacket. Ordina...
... makes no provision for a parliamentary vote of no-confidence to rid us of the most ineffe...
By Bradley Brooks The Associated Press
...Threats of a possible parliamentary vote of no confidence have come in recent weeks fr...
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