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...Lower House will allow it to override most opposition. DPJ leader Ichiro Ozawa could choose to throw the government into gridlock, hoping to force Abe to call snap elections. But playing parliamentary chicken is risky: such a move could prompt the public to see the DPJ as obstructionist and incapable of governing, a charge which has stuck to them in the past. (News late Sunday night that the 65-year-old Ozawa wouldn't be appearing in public for a few days because of illness won't help that perception.) Though the DPJ won a landslide victory, the party...
...party falters-they'll be faced with the tougher question of what to do next. The DPJ could block the LDP's bills, but only temporarily-with its overwhelming majority in the Lower House, the ruling coalition can override opposition. If the DPJ is seen as too obstructionist, it could feed perceptions that the party isn't capable of governing. "The DPJ just criticizes," says Shoichi Nakagawa, the LDP's policy chief. "They haven't done anything to solve these problems...
...complete the reversal of fortunes, Democrats have picked up a Republican strategy circa 2004: accuse the opposition of being obstructionist. "Because of the obstructionism of the Republicans in the United States Senate, I'm not happy with Congress, either," Pelosi told reporters at a press conference highlighting Democratic achievements last week. "I believe that our record will come across to the American people as we're able to pass legislation into law or? tell the American people as to why that hasn't happened...
...Should he be elected, Slavitt sees his role on Beacon Hill primarily as that of a gadfly and an obstructionist,” reads his campaign announcement. “If the legislature cannot serve the will of the people, he believes, it ought at least to be more amusing and entertaining...
...campaign by the dread prospect that John Kerry might replace him. Social Security reform is widely assumed to be dead. The war in Iraq is stymied and losing public support. There is talk that Bush has squandered the goodwill he earned by winning re-election, that the Democrats' sapping obstructionist strategy has weakened him. There is talk that he is on the brink of becoming a lame duck...