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Re: Reactions 4: the Schadenfreude (4.00 / 3)

"Sozialdemokrat ohne Parteibuch" - DIE WELT - WELT ONLINE		"Social democrat without a membership card"
Unionsfraktionschef Volker Kauder sagte, der Austritt signalisiere, dass "bürgerliche, vernünftige Sozialdemokraten keine Heimat mehr" in der SPD besäßen. FDP-Chef Westerwelle meinte, der Schritt mache die Regierungskoalition in Berlin "noch wackliger". Der nordrhein-westfälische Landesverband der FDP bot sich dem Ex-Sozialdemokraten als neue politische Heimat an.		Volker Kauder, leader of the CDU/CSU parliamentary fraction, said that the resignation signaled that "centrist, reasonable social democrats no longer have a home" in the SPD. FDP head [Guido] Westerwelle opined that this step made the governing coalition in Berlin "even shakier". The North Rhine Westphalian FDP state party organization offered the ex-social democrat a new political home.

The Welt has a little picture of Schröder in the banner over this story with the caption "the Farewell the the Gerd Generation".

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Thu Nov 27th, 2008 at 08:12:53 AM EST
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Re: Reactions 4: the Schadenfreude (4.00 / 3)

Heh. What a shame we can't autonumber the subject headers.

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Thu Nov 27th, 2008 at 08:15:16 AM EST
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Re: Reactions 4: the Schadenfreude (4.00 / 2)

Westerwelle was really funny: he listed all the prominent neolib deserters and invited them to his party: Clement/ex-SPD, Oswald Metzger/ex-Greens (mentioned in Martin's diary) and now sidelined-in-the-CDU, and Friedrich Merz/still-CDU (see diary on a talk show appearance).

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Thu Nov 27th, 2008 at 08:35:15 AM EST
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Re: Reactions 4: the Schadenfreude (4.00 / 3)

lol - while secretly hoping that none of them take him up on it. Clement would blow Westerwelle away in a New York minute, and even Merz would give him a run for his money.

Westerwelle's continuing longevity in his party is an abiding mystery to me.

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Thu Nov 27th, 2008 at 09:10:25 AM EST
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Reactions 6: the criminal psychologist (none / 1)

Huh. Amazingly, you get the most biting and most thorough denouncement of Clement... in conservative media flaship FAZ, in an op-ed by Patrick Bahners. I won't quote it because I can't pick out any shorter part.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Thu Nov 27th, 2008 at 08:43:03 AM EST
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