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LONDON (The Borowitz Report)Americans were shocked on Tuesday by the spectacle of a legislative body appearing to take action.
Across the U.S., television viewers watched with mouths agape at startling images of legislators seemingly intent on performing their constitutional duties.
Adding to Americans sense of astonishment, the legislators showed evidence of putting their country before party in an effort to rein in the actions of a reckless leader who had not garnered the majority of his nations votes.
Even more baffling to U.S. viewers, the legislators were furious that the leader had reduced the number of days that they had to show up to do their jobs.
Harland Dorrinson, who watched the bizarre proceedings on television at a bar in Pittsburgh, was totally perplexed by what he saw.
From what I could tell, the legislators were providing oversight over the executive branch in order to protect their country from disaster, he said. It was so weird.
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Leith
(7,813 posts)when I watched the proceedings in the British House of Commons yesterday. They sure are a raucous bunch!
I totally fell in platonic love with the speaker (I guess he was called the speaker), John Bercow.
"OOOORRRRRDEEERRRRRRRR!"
monmouth4
(9,710 posts)been a suggestion to invite him.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)murielm99
(30,765 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,717 posts)he wouldn't last seconds, let alone minutes.
I've watched some of those. It gets pretty rowdy at times.
Gothmog
(145,595 posts)gordianot
(15,245 posts)Gobsmacking and cheeky.
RobertDevereaux
(1,858 posts)For, as my fellow DUers understand, the legislative body known as the House of Representatives has taken *plenty* of action.
Or to be more precise, the Democratic majority in that body has.
That majority has indeed put "country over party."
BlueMississippi
(776 posts)Britain is a true representative democracy where parties are not critical but national interest is.
Yavin4
(35,446 posts)Great pay. Amazing benefits. A pension. And you don't have to do any real work except begging donors for money.