Less than a week ago, Norbert Röttgen, a member of the German parliament (the Bundestag) who is said to be a close confidant of chancellor Merkel, had to resign his post in the German Indistrialist Assicoation (the BDI) -- he was even to become its secretary... But then the scandal shifted to another CDU representative, Reinhard Göhner, who is the secretary of the German Employers' Association.

This is getting ugly. While even Hans-Olaf Henkel, the weasely former long-time BDI boss demands Göhner's resignation (maybe thinking that old boys networks work better in the shadow), the CDU faction chief so far defends him with a non-sequitur argument ("Every politician should be able to decide himself whether he can master two posts at the same time") -- and Göhner himself also refuses to step down, claiming he can separate the different interests of his two posts...

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}