Polish Dish
Those Irish punks have ruined everything, now Poland :
In a newspaper interview published Tuesday, Mr. Kaczynski said it would “pointless” to sign the Lisbon Treaty in light of the Irish rejection.
Damn, that’s the height of amazing nerve. I’ll bet Sarko’s not happy.
“The European idea is in danger if we don’t protect Europeans,” Mr. Sarkozy said Monday.
What’s the “European idea” you ask? Is it a more moderate, sensible version of the American dream? A collective light bulb hovering over Belgium? What kind of fuel economy does it get? Does it include peeing standing up?
In a surprisingly frank admission, the French foreign minister, Bernard Koucher said the no vote in Ireland illustrated how the European Union had alienated its citizens by conducting politics in a manner they find incomprehensible.
“They understand nothing,” Mr. Kouchner said in comments to journalists in Paris “The institutions interest no one.”
He argued that, in contrast, voters did appreciate that Europe “was not able to respond to the rise in the price of petrol.” As for the jargon in which business in Brussels is conducted, Mr. Kouchner said, “no one understands — including me.”
Conducting politics in a manner they find incomprehensible. Good thing we don’t have that problem here in the greatest and best country God has ever given man on the face of the earth.
