G.O.P. Governance in Kyrgyzstan

NYT:

Members of Kyrgyzstan’s divided Parliament slaughtered seven rams before their morning session on Thursday, a sacrifice that they said they hoped would banish “evil spirits” disrupting their work. Elections in Kyrgyzstan last October prompted hopes for what would be the first parliamentary democracy in the old Soviet Central Asia, long a domain of authoritarian governments. But the fragile governing coalition has come under threat after weeks of bitter recriminations and disputes in Parliament. “We decided to resort to popular customs, in order for this building not to see bloodshed any more,” Myktybek Abdyldayev, a member of Parliament, said after the sacrificed.

I guess it beats sacrificing the middle class.