The Irish Examiner View: Contrast in US and Irish politics
The democratic process, or at least versions of it, played out on either side of the Atlantic this week. In both instances, conclusions were long-fingered. The protagonists must meet again, possibly many times, before matters are settled.
In Leinster House yesterday, the 160 deputies elected to the 33rd Dáil did as they were, genetically and politically, expected to do and declined to elect a taoiseach. This orchestrated fall at the first hurdle may be the first of many before the finishing line is eventually crossed.
