Everybody needs to at least watch some of this:

http://www.cspan.org/Search/basic.asp?ResultStart=1&ResultCount=10&BasicQueryText=british+prime+minister+questions

"the british prime minister questions from house of commons"

The fact that the british PM has this kind of accountability is stunning. We really need something like this in the US.
I think this calls for a constitutional amendment to allow this to happen.

then answers predetermined questions for ten minutes.

The constitutional amendment should require the President to take questions from Congress, on the record, once a month.

George Bush would not last two seconds in a true debate.

The Moron cant even answer more than two questions, and that from his masters paid media.

If Bush were to be faced with open and public questioning on a live house floor, that punk would be reduced to babbling incoherent gibberish in a matter of seconds!

Hell, he wilts just from a softball question from the US press.

If Bush had real scrutiny like this... Ha!

Well, at least all the Freeps would see him for the real p*ssy he is.


You know it hurts them supporting a liar, plus he is a AWOL deserting coward when we were at war.

Being a total p*ssy on top of that has got to upset the hardline 'manly' freeps.

He would probably pretend to have laryngitis and skip the sessions.

The American President and the British Prime Minsiter are not entirely equivalent offices. The British PM (as well as the administrative cabinet itself) is an office within the Parliament and as such is much more beholden to Britain's legislative affairs than the U.S. Presidency, which resides in a completely different branch of the government. A crude analogy would be to imagine that there was something called an "Executive Committee" within the House and/or Senate that would effectively combine the offices of Majority Leaders (who set the policy agenda) with the administrative and nominating powers of the President. An American "Prime Minister" would be the Chairman of that committee.

But anyway, is such a situation applaudable? Certainly, as the Head of Government having to be questioned by his or her most vociferous critics is sure to produce a lively exchange. But it isn't likely to occur here, as the President isn't officially a legislative position.

to respond to questions? He does after all preside over the senate.

but they don't anymore.

It's easy to do what Bush does when you don't have a free press.

The free press is one of the pillars of our way of government. Without it, well, you see what happens.

I want my free press back.