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But the FDP wants to continue everything which led to the crises, and with new clothing, continue the amalgamation of banking power. Guido and the FDP are the Siemens party.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

by Crazy Horse on Sun Sep 27th, 2009 at 04:51:58 PM EST
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Indeed -- the SPD at least made a half-backward on neolib policies since, the FDP wants to run further. I fear for their ideas about the German Railways...

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Sun Sep 27th, 2009 at 04:56:03 PM EST
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~~for~~

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Sun Sep 27th, 2009 at 04:56:50 PM EST
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That's why the FDP shouldn't have gained in this election, but they did. What does the German electorate know that we don't?

En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Sep 27th, 2009 at 05:01:36 PM EST
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You shouldn't interpret the FDP's percentages on its own terms. A large part of that is CDU voters fed up with having to coalition with the SPD.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Sun Sep 27th, 2009 at 05:25:26 PM EST
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In fact the CDU and the FDP were fighting over this on election night. (Maybe someone who had the stomach to watch the Elefantenrunde can comment more, I only read it in articles.)

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Sun Sep 27th, 2009 at 05:27:04 PM EST
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Plausible deniability.

It's not about whether their policies have been tried or not. It's about them being able to claim that their policies have not been tried. All they need is a sufficiently big fig leaf that their tame newsies can keep a straight face while they pretend to take their insanity as wisdom.

And if you pay your tame newsies enough, "sufficiently big" is very small indeed.

But hey, at least Siemens make trains that actually run. That's still better than what the Italians and Americans have to show for their lunatic far-right parties...

- Jake

Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Sun Sep 27th, 2009 at 05:06:09 PM EST
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German Elections Open Thread | 173 comments (173 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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