Coalition gains landslide victory in Knesset no-confidence votes

[bemildred]

I guess they aren't ready to give NuttyYahoo a shot at it yet.

Despite the Labor Party's decision to allow its members the freedom not to attend, the coalition won a landslide victory in three no-confidence votes held in the Knesset Monday.

Between 60-62 MKs votes against the no-confidence proposals and only 26-28 voted in favor. Nine MKs consistently abstained.

Chairman of the opposition MK Benjamin Netanyahu said at the discussion prior to the vote "you've failed, take responsibility, go to the people," referring to the current government, whose conduct during the Second Lebanon War was harshly criticized in a recently publicized partial report of the Winograd war inquiry findings.

Interior Minister Roni Bar-On said the war had not been a devastating failure.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/856703.html

[The Magistrate]

1. Whatever Keeps Netanyahu Out, Sir, Is Good

The Kadima, Labor, et al, coallition is going to have to produce a substitute for Olmert, though, and pretty quickly.

[bemildred]

2. Yes, it is.

One would hope for some sense of urgency, and some purpose higher than personal ambition.

[The Magistrate]

3. Only If One Courted Disappointment, My Friend

Expectations of people are best pitched low....

[oberliner]

4. What about Peres?

Do you think he would be a good choice for PM?

[bemildred]

5. High expectations are very cheap, Sir, and you never know... nt