Let's see what we've had in the past few weeks:

• a former president indicted, a former prime minister on trial, and a former minister sentenced to jail, all from Sarkozy's party, and for shenanigans that touch very close to Sarkozy;
  
• three former rightwing prime ministers (Juppé, Raffarin and even Balaldur, Sarkozy's mentor) coming out publicly against major bits of policy;
  
• his minister of culture embroiled in 2 major scandals (one about defending Polanski, one about his own apparent promotion of sexual tourism);
  
• various votes in Parliament embarrassingly lost;
  
• a president elected on cutting down debt increasing it by record amounts;
  
• a president promoting frank discourse and respect for the French caught re-using the exact same canned speech from several months ago (and actually starting it with "I'm not here to tell you what you've already heard...)