We have no castles to give her here. Adulation is voluntary, she
doesn't go where she's not welcomed, like Quebec. And her free ride
in life is thanks to Britons, who still like the idea of having a
Royal family around. Once they tire of it, they'll be history.
>
> > The GG
>
> > is rightly so her lackey, merely a contact man, or woman, between the
> > PM and the Queen, just a go-between. It's all window dressing,
> > nothing substantial. It's painless and makes us feel British every
> > now and then, better than always feeling American.
>
> Britain owns you.
They own nothing. We're just a member state of the Commonwealth, like
the US is a member state of the UN. Does the UN own the US? Then
pull out if you think so.
>
> >>>>> It's like you guys don't ever know what you want to be
> >>>>> or if your vote even counts at all. An unelected-for-president
> >>>>> Repugnant
>
> >>>> He was elected.
>
> >>> Not as president. Or did you somehow go coma over the "unelected-for-
> >>> president" part?
>
> >> He was elected into the line of succession.
>
> > Not by the people.
>
> By the people of his district.
To represent his district as a representative, not be a House
Speaker. The people of his district don't vote for House Speaker.
What a babaloon you are.
>
> > He was elected as a Repugnant representative, not
> > a House Speaker. He didn't campaign for Speaker among his
> > constituents. He was elected by the House and often, especially in
> > highly partisan times, it's the dominant party in the House that gets
> > the Speaker, which can be contrary to the party that an elected
> > president belongs to.
>
> As it should be.
That it should go against the will of the people is as it should be?
No wonder you're trapped in a backwards, upside down, cock-eyed koo
koo universe of right wingnut making.
>
> > Gawddammit, Jim, are you just as stupid as
> > Hartung about your own political system? You don't know the Canadian
> > system, you don't the American system, what the damn hell do you know?
>
> I know you're an idiot and wrong more than 90% of the time, including
> this one.
You haven't proven anything to support anything you say, so that makes
you 100% wrong. I win.
>
> >>>>> can take over an elected Democrat and Repugnants can win
> >>>>> control of the House even though a million more votes went to
> >>>>> Democrats.
>
> >>>> So? You don't get vote for Queen of Canada, ever. Or Governor-General.
>
> >>> They don't run the country. The Prime Minister does. Boy, you're
> >>> stupid.
>
> >> He's the senior cabinet minister, not the Head of State.
>
> > Yeah? So? What's the real news you're trying to manically spin?
>
> >>>>> That's one mighty damn stupid system. At least it works
> >>>>> according to voters' wishes in Canada and remains focused on the party
> >>>>> in power.
>
> >>>> Who do you think is third in line in Canada?
>
> >>> The House Leader - who is always of the same party as the one elected
> >>> to govern, not someone in opposition.
>
> >> Yet he also wasn't elected Prime Minister.
> >> Hmm... how about that.
>
> > Neither is the Vice President. Hmm... how about that. But the House
> > Leader is within the ranks of the party that was voted into power,
>
> With 36% of the vote.
Just under 40%. But we also have 5 parties, not like your 2 puny ones
- that makes it reflective of a better representation of more diverse
political views which, in turn, creates generally saner and more
balanced legislation. Except when right wingnuts are in power. But
with the way the Senate scandal is going for them right now, I'm
encouraged by the distinct possibility that another election just
might take place this year, two years ahead of schedule.
>
> > so that still makes him a legitimate replacement, unlike in the US where
> > someone in the opposition can take over power in unelected fashion for
> > just such a position.
>
> It can happen in Canada too, genius.
I don't know how many times I have to tell you this, because you seem
to surpass your level of stupidity every time you type something else,
but the House Leader for the government is always chosen from within
the ranks of the party in power, he or she can never become Prime
Minister from the opposition ranks, the way it can be in the US. The
opposition has their own House Leader, but he or she never takes over
as Prime Minister when there's already a House Leader on the side of
the party in power. In fact, the Foreign Affairs Minister is second
in line, then House Leader, then Human Resources, then Defence
Minister, and so on and so on, until it's the last man or woman
standing in the ruling party, after which point the opposition can, I
suppose, technically take over. The line of succession all stays
within the ruling party to the last member. Get it? So no, it can't
happen in Canada too, doofus.
>
> Here's a fun little hypothetical for you to consider: Everybody in the
> Conservative party dies or resigns. Who takes over?
I just told you. But you have to wait till everybody dies. In your
case, everybody is still alive and the other side can take over.
Stupid system.
> There's a system in place to cover that possibility in the US. You would
> have chaos.
Well, you'd have chaos too if somebody decided to gun down each and
every Repugnant in Congress. Then you'd be just a one-party system.
We'd still be a four-party system. Who ends up still being
democratic? It's not a trick question.
>
> > You somehow keep going into a coma over that
> > salient point that greatly differs from your flawed and inferior
> > system.
>
> Our system is most certainly flawed, but not nearly as much as Canada's
> - or any other parliamentary system. Here, the Queen can't have her
> lackey dissolve the legislative branch.
She doesn't do it on her. She is requested by the Governor General to
dissolve parliament because of a called election. It's nothing but
tradition, a mere formality, it's all very painless. It works
smoothly every time, she has never denied a request. I only wish she
could dissolve it at will with this stupid right wingnut and now
scandal-ridden government we've got and also get rid of the separatist-
minded provincial government in Quebec. But sorry to disappoint, she
just doesn't have that power.
>
> >>>>> If our right wingnut Prime Minister drops out, he's taken
> >>>>> over by any one of at least a half-dozen right wingnuts in the elected
> >>>>> right wingnut government. The Speaker of the House and opposition
> >>>>> parties stay out of it. There's no cheating or jumping the line here,
> >>>>> it's all fair and square and of the people, by the people and for the
> >>>>> people until the term ends.
>
> >>>> And what happens if the top two, the PM and the Governor-General, are
> >>>> incapacitated simultaneously?
>
> >>> Look above, look way above....
>
> >> Yeah. A person not elected as Prime Minister would become Prime
> >> Minister. The same situation you're trying to claim is stupid in America.
>
> > There goes your coma again. Same party here, not same party where you
> > are. BIG difference.
>
> There is a line of succession, thus there is a point where a member of
> an opposition party would assume the role.
Broken record, broken record, broken record....
>
> >> Have some maple syrup and go to bed.
>
> > Down a gallon of IQ juice, with luck you might be able to add 1+1 and
> > get 2 in the morning.
>
> Does the Order of Precedence apply?
Be specific, I can't read your mind.