But now one, Pernod Ricard, a French drinks group, is finding that the formerly communist countries' legislative flaws can cause problems both ways.
Tension has mounted since President Aristide's party won flawed legislative elections in 2000 and international donors blocked millions of dollars in aid.
But even Mr. Bush's opponents would have to acknowledge he is on a winning streak, however flawed the legislative results.
Notwithstanding the Attorney General's belated discovery of DOMA's allegedly unconstitutional motivation, this argument is flawed because legislative motivation is not a basis for setting aside a federal statute supported by legitimate and rational government interests.
And its villainy is turbocharged by its ruthless exploitation of the flaws in our legislative and electoral machinery, especially the Senate filibuster and the malapportionment that lets them keep their House majority (and their filibuster-capable Senate minority) despite the fact that the majority of Americans voted for Democrats.
Haiti's May 2000 elections, which gave Aristide's Lavalas Family party an overwhelming legislative majority, were condemned as flawed by the OAS.
They're complaining over their coffee and Danish about the flaws in the legislative package passed last night, and about the shortcomings of incrementalism as an approach to real change.
In New Jersey, the State Legislature paid a private lawyer $412,759 to defend the law, which they passed over the governor's veto and which the state attorney general and their own legislative counsel had warned them was flawed.
And the Republican tax bill will slowly reveal flaws that need prompt legislative fixes.
"The reforms signed into law yesterday are an important step forward toward better protecting Montanans' due process and property rights from the inherent and structural flaws in civil forfeiture," Lee McGrath, legislative counsel for the Institute for Justice, told The Huffington Post.
This case asks students to wear the hat of a policymaker to explore the politically charged issues around corporate tax reform in the U.S. Structural flaws in the system are encouraging legislative procrastination.
