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...Member Proportional (MMP) voting system, introduced in 1996, means the minor parties will play a role in forming a coalition government or supporting it from outside. For this election, Labour has teamed with the Greens, whose co-leaders Jeanette Fitzsimons and Rod Donald could find themselves in Clark's Cabinet. Peter Dunne's families-focused United Future party has said it could work with either major party. The Maori Party, formed after the foreshore and seabed issue, has said (after some reluctance) it could cooperate with Labour but not National...
...failures, Brown has in some ways been a scapegoat for the incompetence of others. After all, as head of FEMA, Brown is just a second-tier manager in the nation's second largest Cabinet agency, the sprawling Department of Homeland Security. From the moment he declared Katrina "an incident of national significance"--a full 36 hours after landfall--the man in charge of the federal response was Brown's boss, DHS Secretary Chertoff...
...time talked to an aide about the seriousness of the storm, then convened an emergency conference call of his top staff. He was scheduled to spend a few more nights at the ranch, but an aide said he blurted out, "We're going back." Bush also said he wanted Cabinet members recalled from vacations. At a Cabinet meeting last week, according to a participant, Bush said he knew he had "a big problem to solve...
From tarmac to Cabinet room, the President's performance was uneven at the very least, and associates say that can be explained by several factors. Some are specific to his CEO style, others endemic to second terms, but all of them came together in early September much like Katrina itself. The first was his elongated summer vacation: Bush upped to nearly five weeks his traditional month of working vacation at the Crawford ranch, a vacuum that always alarmed his aides because it gave others an opening for capturing the news agenda. While the staff agonized about whether he should...
...Bush era begins to wane, some remaining aides lack the chops to set him right when he is off course. Several of his closest advisers--including Condoleezza Rice, Alberto Gonzales and Karen Hughes--have left the West Wing for Cabinet posts or jobs in other agencies. His chief of staff, Andrew Card, has never been mistaken for James Baker, the man who made a minor career out of setting Bush's father right. And Bush has filled a number of lesser spots around the government with political hacks and patronage candidates--most embarrassingly Michael Brown, director of the Federal Emergency...