Sleepy old Dublin Town...oh wait, getting their Irish on!

If my cousins across the sea can get their act together and do this, maybe there's hope for us. Notice that the demographics of the people angry at the banks and rest is the same as that of the Tea Party in the United States. Says something about having good schools and making people learn math...and, note the anger at the interest rate.They've done the math...and why the hell should Greece get a better rate than Ireland? Of course, the link should take you to the Guardian's page that also has the interest rate for 30 year mortgages through the Royal Bank of Scotland...we've been robbed.

Builder Mick Wallace, who has had to lay off 100 of his workers due to the crash in the construction industry, said it was time the Irish became more militant. "We are far too quiet. We should be more like the French and get onto the streets more often. Because our politicians go over to Europe and tell the EU that our people do not demonstrate, they don't take to the streets. It's time we changed that and openly opposed what is going on," he said.

Jimmy Purdy, 77, from Dublin's Ringsend area, was at the demonstration outside Dublin's GPO – the scene of the 1916 Easter Rising. "I have lived through three recessions and I think this could be the worst one yet," he said. "I'm here because I'm angry that the EU are telling us to cut euros off the minimum wage and boss Irish workers around while the people that caused this crisis get off scot-free."

Now, Ireland has a parliamentary form of government; we do not. We're not where we are at because of Barrack Obama; we are where we at because of Alan Greenspan, Phil Graham and the election of 1994. Clinton supped with the devil and as perhaps the most sophisticated politician of the 20th and 21st centuries, used a long enough spoon that we didn't hate him as much as we should for rubbing brass cleaner on parts of the safety net. However, Obama is a political science savant -- he gets the governing part, he just doesn't get the political part. He'd be great in a Parliamentary system. He'd be like Churchill, clawing his way back into power when the other side overreached while doing the Tony Blair thing when in office. But, in our system, he forgot about the political reality -- as President, the world goes topsy turvy every two years when the Congress changes. Instead of audacity and thinking big about politics, he decided to focus on a three corner offense and a zone defense. And, he's where he is not because of Nancy Pelosi -- he's where he is because of himself, and Harry Reid.

Of the two houses, it was more critical to maintain the House than the Senate. The House is where the action is; the Senate is not. While more involved than Lords versus Commons, the filabuster and general rules of order in the Senate favor the minority unless there's a super majority. But, the House can create all sorts of havoc, and then the Senate has to stop it. Or the President has to veto it.

In a Parliamentary system, a vote of no confidence is pretty simple -- start defeating bills and the whole mess gets redone in six weeks. The Irish can go to the streets, cause panic and dismay, and something will happen. Remember that the roots of the IRA and the roots of the struggle in Ireland has a strong anti-capitalist branch...here, we've been stupid most of the time. The Republic feel in Rome not because of the populares but because of the overreaching of some of the optimates. Caesar and the boys of the XIII Legion just found it all ripe for picking, kicking and rolling over on its back...

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