I'm not surprised by this behaviour. The spokesperson isn't really compelled by anyone to answer these questions.
Quite apart from balance-of-power forces that make American democracy ineffective, such as the media, the actual formal power structure doesn't have a mechanism to compell the government to answer questions. What are people going to do, vote them out four years later in favor of the other question-evading party?
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Too few voting bits
Date: 2002-06-04 10:42 pm (UTC)Quite apart from balance-of-power forces that make American democracy ineffective, such as the media, the actual formal power structure doesn't have a mechanism to compell the government to answer questions. What are people going to do, vote them out four years later in favor of the other question-evading party?
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