Maybe a Monarchy isn't such a bad idea

[nate]

 

Australia did this once. In 1975, the Australian government shut down because the legislature had failed to fund it, deadlocked by a budgetary squabble. It looked a lot like the U.S. shutdown of today, or the 17 previous U.S. shutdowns.

Australia's 1975 shutdown ended pretty differently, though, than they do here in America. Queen Elizabeth II's official representative in Australia, Governor General Sir John Kerr, simply dismissed the prime minister. He appointed a replacement, who immediately passed the spending bill to fund the government. Three hours later, Kerr dismissed the rest of Parliament. Then Australia held elections to restart from scratch. And they haven't had another shutdown since.

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/10/01/australia-had-a-government-shutdown-once-it-ended-with-the-queen-firing-everyone-in-parliament/

[Angel Oracle]

I love it.   Time to clean house in Congress, and throw the money in the pockets out on their keesters!

[Mudville]

So we need Queen Elizabeth to intervene?

[arch stanton]

As they're finding out in Egypt, different isn't necessarily better. We need to gut the two party system and splinter the megacorporations and really start from scratch.

[Schildog]

i like this. we could bring back william jefferson clinton under such circumstances. 

[nate]

i like this. we could bring back william jefferson clinton under such circumstances.