Walters: California unwittingly experimenting with a parliamentary system
(WorldNews Politics)

For the past decade, California has been a case study in one-party rule. Democrats hold every statewide office and enjoy overwhelming majorities in the congressional delegation and both legislative houses. Republicans, due largely to their own failures, are irrelevant. With no partisan competition, whatever Democratic leaders decide behind closed doors is quickly written into law, including the massive state budget. Even when hearings are held, committee chairs routinely limit testimony to a couple of brief presentations and require everyone else to just state their names and positions. As worrisome as those aspects of one-party rule may be, we have now entered still another political...