Poll:Should The US Adopt A 'No Confidence' Provision to Rid Ourselves of the Likes of Obama?

[Revolting cat!]

Similar discussions took place here when Toon beat impeachment, and some of us were saying that it’ll only get worse with the next one, while others defended the current system as they are doing above and below. It hasn’t gotten worse with this next one?

Don’t you think that the new democracies of Europe such as Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia and others looked at our, to you, perfect Constitution when they composed theirs in the past 20 years, and saw the mess we are in?

Whenever I read European newspapers, one theme in published opinions about America jumps out: serious reform is impossible in the United States, say all the sages across the Continent. Tell me that they are all “stupid”.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Our system of government is fine the way it is. The last thing we need is Italian-style instability.

[Tupelo]

That would take a Constitutional amendment and the Constitution has been amendeded and abused enough.
What needs to be done is to wholesale repeal the 16th, 17th, 22nd, 23rd, 25th and 26th amendments. Maybe the 19th also.
These amendments have given us the mess we have today. So eliminate them and we get no more 0bamas or Reids or Schumers or Kennedys or Robert Byrds. The Pelosis, we have to put up with because these districts can elect who they want and let's face it the House of Representatives has been like a Frat house from the beginning.

[Catsrus]

It all depends on the church. Many of them today are very liberal.

[haroldeveryman]

No. The perfect system is only as good as the state of its culture. There will be no shortage of Obamas as long as our people are fools.

Our system of government was specifically designed to prevent narrow interest groups from accumulating oppressive power. The best system in the world can’t prevent this if people are seduced into surrendering their rights and freedoms in return for politician’s promises of goodies, special privileges, and revenge for past injustices.

[tom h]

No. We are not a parliamentary democracy, where frustrated citizens can legally bring down a government anytime. We are a republic, and by definition we must live with the outcome of our voting decisions.

I'd be in favor of an IQ or common sense check as a condition of voting (!), but don't want a "no-confidence" check on Presidential power. Polls are good enough.