I don't understand Verdonk. This whole affair seems a suicidal operation.What could she have thought, how else would this move be received? "We don't make exceptions" law-and-orderism? Or, maybe, she feared that not acting would lead to accusations of VVD cronyism? *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
The criticism of the opposition is scoring points: the laws on naturalisation should not be adopted so rigidly in the first place.