Well, this is putting the Nader 'Tweedledum and
Tweedledee' to a test, certainly.
Over the next year, the credibility of the Green
Paty will be subject to that test. If the Bush
administration turns out to be bad, then the
Greens will suffer accordingly.
Barry
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I don't see the connection. The events of the last 5 days make it highly unlikely that the potential policy divergences between the Republicrats will have the opportunity to manifest themselves due to gridlock. Also, I've never heard the Greens say that a Bush administration would be good. If the Bush administration sucks, then the Republicans will suffer. Why should the Greens be held accountable for fiscal and monetary policy over the next four years? There's simply been too many monocausal proclivities when discussing what was, after all, only 3% of the electorate. Green policies may likely never be tested via the current institutional arrangements in the US and it is impossible to predict their outcomes even if Nader and his followers got all of them passed tomorrow; the dynamics are simply tooooooo complex, economists predicting 16 of the last 7 recessions and all that.
Ian