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McCain’s modest proposal [updated]

[Update: Hentoff endorses.]
Continuing the great tradition of Newt Gingrich’s ’94 effort to convert the US to a parliamentary democracy (with himself as the self-styled PM), the Congressional Research Service notes John McCain’s radical proposal for a new political process:
In May 2008, Senator and presidential candidate John McCain stated that, as President, he would “ask Congress [...]