21 April 2006
No Confidence Vote
Senator Dick Durbin’s call for a vote of no confidence in the tenure of Donald Rumsfeld as Secretary of Defense is an admitted appeal to use a tool of parliamentary systems of government. It is not part of the American constitutional system that enshrines separation of powers between three equal branches – executive, legislative, and judicial.
The appropriate vehicle for pressuring a member of the Administration to be fired or to resign traditionally is the next scheduled national election. Owing to the IT revolution, it has become easier to mobilize political resistance to the policies of the government, not only in the U.S., but virtually anywhere in the world (viz. Nepal and China).
If Senator Durbin and others in the Congress believe strongly that retention of Secretary Rumsfeld will harm the country, they should make it an issue of their coming election campaigns. They should encourage their confederates and constituents to express displeasure to the President directly and to coalesce their voting strength for achieving a change in party dominance of the next U.S. Congress.
Senator Dick Durbin’s call for a vote of no confidence in the tenure of Donald Rumsfeld as Secretary of Defense is an admitted appeal to use a tool of parliamentary systems of government. It is not part of the American constitutional system that enshrines separation of powers between three equal branches – executive, legislative, and judicial.
The appropriate vehicle for pressuring a member of the Administration to be fired or to resign traditionally is the next scheduled national election. Owing to the IT revolution, it has become easier to mobilize political resistance to the policies of the government, not only in the U.S., but virtually anywhere in the world (viz. Nepal and China).
If Senator Durbin and others in the Congress believe strongly that retention of Secretary Rumsfeld will harm the country, they should make it an issue of their coming election campaigns. They should encourage their confederates and constituents to express displeasure to the President directly and to coalesce their voting strength for achieving a change in party dominance of the next U.S. Congress.
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