Villepin a cinder, Chirac toast? | 93 comments (93 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

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Technically, the US Senate has to approve the nominations of US Cabinet members. Although our pathetic Senate rarely doesn't approve someone because they hope to get free passes when their party has the Presidency. Like many things, what the Constitution calls for and what happens in practice are not always the same.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -Voltaire

by p------- on Wed May 10th, 2006 at 09:03:03 PM EST
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Well, Presidents facing hostile majorities in Congress sometimes can't get their nominees appointed [See Clinton and his attorney generals]. Even with a majority, an aggressive minority can use confirmation hearings to make a nominee politically untenable, though that would be rare.

In this connection, I am not entirely happy with DoDo's diagrams because generally there should be "proposes" arrows from the head of state down to the PM and from the President/PM down to the rest of the cabinet, and "approves" arrows up from the parliament to the PM and/or cabinet.

In many bicameral systems there are also members of the upper house who are not popularly elected [as was the case in the US initially]: senators "by royal designation", "nominated by the provincial/state government", "lifetime senators"...].

Finance is the brain [tumour] of the economy

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu May 11th, 2006 at 03:14:07 AM EST
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I am not entirely happy with DoDo's diagrams because generally there should be "proposes" arrows from the head of state down to the PM and from the President/PM down to the rest of the cabinet, and "approves" arrows up from the parliament to the PM and/or cabinet.

Didn't I omit that only in the case of the American system?

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by DoDo on Thu May 11th, 2006 at 07:09:52 AM EST
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No arrows into "PM" unless you intend them to apply to the entire triangle and not just to the bottom. Also, what's the difference between "appoints" and "nominates"?

Maybe the orange arrows pointing into the middle of the brack arrows?

It just didn't seem clear to me.

Finance is the brain [tumour] of the economy

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu May 11th, 2006 at 07:14:50 AM EST
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