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Originally Posted by sundialsvcs
I didn't mean anything by my comment, @Hitest. I'm an American, after all.
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No problem.
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Originally Posted by sundialsvcs
I'm simply astonished that it is possible to cause the national legislative body not to meet. (Which is how I dimly understand the situation.) To lil' ol' me, that's a rather astonishing level of power for any one person to have.
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You perceived it 100% correctly. I agree. It is indeed a vast amount of power afforded to the PM.
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Originally Posted by sundialsvcs
Equally astonishing, albeit in a very different way, is that this is the first time in American history that our House of Representatives fired its Speaker. (The Senate has never yet done so.) Although there have been so very many scoundrels . . .
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I agree. That was a very surprising event!