Of course we all know he'd never go for it. No way to get all of Congress to agree to ask only prescreened questions that Bush has prepared answers for. That's why he prefers his fake townhall meetings to a real press conference.

What I think is most interesting about question time is that it forces transparency with politicians and their ideals, but it also humanizes them. The most irritating thing about American politics is that things are reduced to soundbite versions of gotcha. With question time, politicians are so regularly humiliated or drubbed that you're forced, as an audience, to deal with the substantive disagreements that come from QT because members of both parties will misspeak, look foolish, or in Gordon Brown's case, occasionally tremble meaning that there's no reason to make issues 1,2,3,4 on the nightly news a tortured analysis of a grammatical mistake or overreaction.

If Bush had to stand up to Question Time, we wouldn't have spent the first three years of his presidency mocking (or defending) his poor and sparse public speaking. It would have been all the more obvious to a larger segment of the population that the man was badly over matched in substantive issues.

we all know that would be fucking themselves as well in the END:)

As Americans we are, of course, certain that our system is the best in the world because we are God's chosen people and nobody else could ever have a better idea.

But.....watching the Britain's Parliament is stunning. They actually have articulate leaders who can discuss their positions cogently in an impromptu manner. The holder of their national executive power doesn't have to be revered like some kind of oriental potentate, he can be called to accountability in front of scores if not hundreds of other powerholders.

If they got a bad one--they just flush him down the toilet, sometimes without needing to hold a national election!

Of course, to do all of this, we'd have to actually believe in democracy and we don't.

One thing I do like about the British sysem is the no-confidence vote. Imagine if we could have forced early elections because Bush's poor management has become obvious to all by the most ardent koolaid drinkers.

We wouldn't have even had to have a no-confidence vote and new general election. Thatcher and Blair were removed by the party without the need for elections--acts of partisan self-defense.