Tell me something, is a president of the USA largely titular like a British monarch or do they have real power. Is it government by cabinet or leader-centric?
-----Original Message----- From: Edmund Storms [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 September 2008 20:43 To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Cc: Edmund Storms Subject: Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC News of the bailout The people who nuked the deal are the people who do not trust the administration and who, in addition to listening to the voters, were able to hear what various economists are saying. Of course, it helps to be very conservative or very liberal. Thank heaven, there was enough independent thinking this time to not create another Iraq in the financial world. Ed On Sep 29, 2008, at 1:30 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: > News stories I'm seeing make it sound like it was the conservative > Republicans who nuked the deal. > > With Barney Frank as lead representative on the bill, in the end it > was > apparently, in some sense, a Democratic initiative(?) or at any rate > it > was certainly bi-partisan. >
