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The British Parliament Is Interested In What's Going On In The British Parliament

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    There you go jumping to erroneous conclusions. You are thinking to yourself that I am going to point this blog posting at the fact that (several years ago) the House of Commons voted down British action against Syria. You ought to know me better than that. Such a blog would be too blatantly political for the Smartfella.

    Does it not mystify you to know that I know that you are always thinking several years in the past? I don't understand it either. It's a gift.

    What caught my eye was the House of Commons Debate itself. Allow me to contrast British Debating in their House of Commons with what we see in our 9 Percentage Point Approval Rated Congress...

    British House of Commons

    The chamber was alive with the members and the debate that was consuming them. They were all paying attention to what was going on. They were quietly murmuring approval when they agreed with what was being said and jeering disapproval when they disagreed. From what I have seen over the years this is the way they always are.


    U.S. House & Senate

    CSPAN is there. CSPAN lets us see all that is going on. To accomplish this task CSPAN does not have to move the camera. The only thing that is going on is the speaker poking holes in the air with his finger. The few occasions that the camera is turned to show the chamber it shows that the chamber is empty.

    Our guys don't seem to care what is being said in there when it is not them that are saying it. They come in shortly before it is time for them to speak. They leave once they have delivered their pre-prepared words of wisdom.


    The most unsettling aspect of what they do while they are representing us up there is when they say as they finish, "I Reserve the Right to Revise and Extend My Remarks". I sure hope this does not mean that they can change what they did say and insert into the record things that they did not say. Please tell me that's not what that phrase means.

    Would I kid u?
    Smartfella
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( September 26th, 2016 @ 1:22 pm )
 
In all the years I was a county commissioner, one of the stupidest comments that I remember was: 'no one will travel to our area if they were to see how these commissioners conducted themselves', which was code for those commissioners who failed to act in a bipartisan manner ("do it our way"), and did vocally oppose initiatives that were based in an egregious lack of foresight and wisdom, but were; however, issues popular with the crony class, or their twin brother in reason, the welfare class.

I have always appreciated The House of Commons, with all their verbosity, and clapping and pounding on wood; and loud, often near rude behavior.

This is pure representative government in plain sight.



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