It's Playschool, good morning children

Yep they sure are here. Our Congress has been behaving like small children fighting on a playground for years now. Maybe they could put it on in the morning as a "this is how you DO NOT behave show" to our children. Heck my children behave better than most political officials.

I cannot believe that they actually want their childish behaviour televised so we can see what fools they behave like. The name calling and trying to shout down any one who says things they do not want to hear. It is just so pathetic. I am surprised they do not throw things at each other. lol

Ah, God bless the ABC Lash! Funnily enough, this is one aspect of Australiana that I hhave never pined for. lol. Have you ever seen footage of some of the massive fights the Taiwanese politicians seem to get themsleves into every now and then? Now THAT'S entertainment! Slapping with shoes, jugs of water being thrown, moderators with gavels leaping across crowds to take a completely untimely swipe at somebody or another..... It's like the Three Stooges meets UFC!

It used to be that we looked up to and respected our government officials but that time is long gone. Much of it is their own doing, with their illegal activities and sorted affairs making the news daily.

There was resistance in Parliament to televising proceedings but they lost and we won! Now we can have free daily entertainment beamed into the comfort of our own homes. Mostly this involves grown adults, all of whom are paid three times the average wage, some many times more, men and women, behaving in a way that when I was at school would have got us a class detention and in some cases a letter home to our parents. The really strange thing is, that we are allowed to put an X in a box every four years to vote for one of these clowns. Apparently, they represent our interests. So, I can tell you that my interests clearly involve: waving order papers; heckling anyone that opens their mouth; Jumping up and down in frustration; storming out upset; trying to catch the eye of the Speaker and failing (because he's too busy having MPs arrested); talking out any bill that I don't like the look of. That will do for now. I've got to go and listen to the "Father of the House". Must be time for my afternoon nap!

hmm...well in america they are like little boys who just entered a candy store, give them money and they will go and do whatever you ask.

sounds like Prime Minister's Question Time where people take turns to either try and score points by trying to catch the pm out with their questions, make themselves look good by totally sucking up, and booing etc when they're trying to answer.

We don't have a government channel per se', but we do have C-span, which is run by the cable companies in cooperation with congress. It broadcasts the senate and house of represenatives when in session as well as some political talk, news and commentary. We don't see alot of the dramatics in congress like I've noticed in the Brittish and Canadian parliment sessions (I've never seen Australin parliment in action), and we don't come to blows like they do in Taiwan, but the stupidity is non-the-less apparent in just the things they say. I will note however after the last session ended, with out a vote on off shore drilling being brought, a bunch from the republican party stayed on in protest, it was near panemonium, but that was an extremely rare occurence.