From: Phil Payne 

> The point, however, is that there was no outcry to change a system that
produced
> such an absurd action.  In other similar systems, if the coalition fails, new
> elections are held. The idea that you can have a change of government just by
> minority parties arbitrarily changing coalition partners is the height of
> absurdity. It is thoroughly undemocratic, yet the Germans don't seem to care.

Quite the contrary.  Both the SPD/FDP coalition and the later CDU/CSU/FDP
coalition had in total a substantial majority of the popular vote.  Shrub
does not even have a majority, much less a substantial one.

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