If a country elects their legislature through free and fair elections, but they spend their sessions physically fighting each other and don’t actually pass any bills, is the country still a democracy?
Photograph and caption from the Taipei Times:
DPP Legislator Wang Shu-hui, left, attacks KMT Legislator Kuo Su-chun, right, after Kuo tore up a copy of Premier Frank Hsieh’s policy report that he was scheduled to deliver yesterday at the opening of a new sitting of the legislature.
Oh, and please, please don’t refer to Taiwanese politics as ‘kabuki.’
Oh, and please, please don’t refer to Taiwanese politics as ‘kabuki.’
Never! The proper scientific term is politicus brawlicus.
The proper term is 歌仔戲.
I’d like that to happen here. Ted Kennedy would SO kick Santorum’s ass.