Ukraine pres. sacks govt

[UConn James]

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KIEV, Ukraine - Ukraine’s President Viktor Yushchenko sacked his government on Thursday as the team which led the “Orange Revolution” less than a year ago broke apart amid infighting and accusations of mass graft.

 

Whose sig line goes something like "The thing reformers won't tell you is that the re-formation might be worse." And for all of those here who champion third-parties, here's yet more proof to the pile that having another party won't matter as long as the people who helm them down to the people who lick envelopes, suck. This thought process just results in a fractured political system and eventually, a 10-foot ballot paper like South Africa.

 

Someone I know was talking the other day about making "None of the Above" a countable vote in elections. I asked where I can sign up.

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Whose sig line goes something like "The thing reformers won't tell you is that the re-formation might be worse." And for all of those here who champion third-parties, here's yet more proof to the pile that having another party won't matter as long as the people who helm them down to the people who lick envelopes, suck. This thought process just results in a fractured political system and eventually, a 10-foot ballot paper like South Africa.

 

Someone I know was talking the other day about making "None of the Above" a countable vote in elections. I asked where I can sign up.

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This shakeout in Ukraine has been coming for some time. I was there at the tail end of the revolution until June. I noticed the protestors went from the Pro-Yanukovich mobsters from Donetsk in the beginning to the student members of Pora later in the spring because there was not enough movement on reform. The revolution was not so much about Yushenko as it was about reform. There is a huge difference, believe me, in Ukraine with Yushenko and Timoshenko, but there is a corrupt regime that must be dealt with. It will be the Ukrainians who will decide whether and how fast reform will take place.

Don't for one minute think the existing structure is worse than the Kuchma regime. Journalists are not being beheaded and people are not being followed home by the "men in black." Businesses are coming into Ukraine and there has been some very significant reform.