Obama Tries The Parliamentary System — Dick Morris — GOPUSA
Why has Barack Obama appointed three of his defeated opponents to top jobs? Why did he put Hillary in the State Department? And why has he filled other posts with people from other factions in the Democratic Party – and a Secretary of Defense from the Republicans? One even doubts that a majority of Obama’s cabinet voted for him in the primaries!
There is method to his madness. The Democratic Party’s total power over everything but the courts means that if he can control the Party, he can run the government. So he has amassed a cabinet more akin to a European parliamentary model than to an American presidential system. Rather than appoint advisors and loyalists, he has named people who represent all wings of the Party and its key players. Any Democrat might have appointed a similar cabinet. He has nominated what, in a parliamentary system, would be called the shadow cabinet – the people who have patiently waited in the wings to step into their designated portfolios after the Party wins a general election. His theory is likely that if there are to be battles, they will be inside the Administration.
Obama Tries The Parliamentary System — Dick Morris — GOPUSA.
