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 ferretsgames rated 23 months ago -
Euphoria fades as British observers unsure what US results actually mean
As the Republicans lost control of the Senate as well as the House of Representatives, left-wingers across Britain celebrated the US mid-term election results, while a nagging worry remained that they didn't quite...
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- Monkey-Pilot rated 21 months ago
- Sounds about right.
- Fryd1e rated 22 months ago
- From the page: "At first a number of British liberals were worried by the changing colour of America's political map, but eventually realized that the Democrats were blue and the Republicans red." Great bit of satire.
- ferretsgames rated 23 months ago
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Euphoria fades as British observers unsure what US results actually mean
As the Republicans lost control of the Senate as well as the House of Representatives, left-wingers across Britain celebrated the US mid-term election results, while a nagging worry remained that they didn't quite understand what actual difference this was all going to make.
Tuesday's mid-term elections have resulted in a major power shift in the United States, with Republican President Bush now finding himself facing a Congress controlled by the Democrats. However what exactly the Congress is, whether it is the same thing as the Senate or whether it's like a great big hall where all the state governors sit is still unclear.
`This is a fantastic result' said Sarah Dexter, a social worker from Stoke Newington, London. `Bush has been given a bloody nose, and now he won't be able to... do stuff, because all the Senators in the House of Representatives, will like, stop him. Won't they?'
`What, so is Bush still the President then?' interjected her boyfriend Dave. `I thought he just lost the election?'
At first a number of British liberals were worried by the changing colour of America's political map, but eventually realized that the Democrats were blue and the Republicans red. This was followed by a huge surge of elation at the enormous gains made by the only viable opposition to President Bush, then gradual disquiet that the Democrats were still pretty right wing anyway, and by Wednesday evening, abject depression that party politics in the UK had gone pretty much the same way.
But attempts to understand the role of the US legislative in relation to the executive were still no clearer on Wednesday evening when a British journalist asked for clarification at a White House press conference.
`Well, the House of Representative is like all these guys, who like, are on Capital Hill, and I think the Senate is there too, but what the difference is I'm not quite sure...' said President George W. Bush.
This proves just how well we Brits understand US politics.
We have as good a grasp of our own too. LMAO!!!
- just-me rated 23 months ago
- `This is a fantastic result' said Sarah Dexter, a social worker from Stoke Newington, London. `Bush has been given a bloody nose, and now he won't be able to... do stuff, because all the Senators in the House of Representatives, will like, stop him. Won't they?' `What, so is Bush still the President then?' interjected her boyfriend Dave. `I thought he just lost the election?'
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