It was obviously populist wangling, but I thought John McCain’s suggestion today about introducing an equivalent of Britain’s Prime Minister’s Questions for the American presidency was quite a good idea:

I will ask Congress to grant me the privilege of coming before both houses to take questions, and address criticism, much the same as the Prime Minister of Great Britain appears regularly before the House of Commons.

Bring it on. PMQs is one of the few excellent things about the UK’s current system of parliamentary democracy. Surely it is healthy for political leaders to be shouted at, and jeered, by elected representatives on a regular basis, even if it is all pantomime and cheap shots.

It would be especially interesting to see how a President McCain–with his notorious temper–would cope with a vulgar barracking like this…