Sunday - September 06, 2009

Irish Prime Minister still confused on issue of Eu entry.

So says this reporter and it looks like she may be right.

Last year the Irish voted NO to the EU.  BUT ..  the folks in Brussels didn’t like the result, and so now the Irish are going to have to vote all over again.
In fact, in less then a month.  Can hardly wait.  If the Irish repeat the original result, it could cause much damage to that bloated pack of euro-windbags.
Guess we’ll wait and see.  At the moment, based on reading here, the Irish economy is not doing as well as hoped and in worse shape then it was during that original vote.

Hey .. a sudden thought. A flash of brilliance late in the day.

Maybe we (USA) could adopt whatever kind of legal mumbo-jumbo the EU uses to force an election due to being unhappy with original results.
We could say wait ... some minds have changed and we need another presidential election to correct the mistake made by those folks who voted in the guy who is there now.  No huh?  OK, just a thought. I suppose it could work against us as well.
Guess we’ll all have to stay tuned till the next election.
Meanwhile ....

Twenty-nine days until the Irish are forced to vote again on Lisbon, and the Irish prime minister still can’t give more than muddled answers about what is in the treaty.

By Mary Ellen Synon
Sunday Mail

The latest opinion poll in Ireland shows a swing away from a Yes vote in the Lisbon referendum—hardly surprising given that the political leaders campaigning in favour of Lisbon are showing the intellectual finesse of the Three Stooges.

Earlier this week, Brian Cowen, the prime minister, showed he didn’t know enough about the treaty to answer a straightforward question on how the treaty would affect employment policy in Ireland.

Now Enda Kenny, the leader of the main opposition party, Fine Gael, has stumbled over the contents of the treaty. Yesterday he was launching his campaign for a Yes vote. Asked about the proposed switch to ‘double majority voting’ under Lisbon, Kenny tried to claim that it would boost Ireland’s ability to block new EU laws that could hurt Irish business and industry.

Wrong. Under Lisbon, Ireland will lose 40 percent of its power to block legislation.

What is scary for Ireland is that Kenny is set to head the next government—another opinion poll this week shows that 85 percent of the Irish do not approve of how the present Fianna Fail-Green coalition is running the country.

So the man who will soon be leading his country’s negotiations in Brussels imagines he is going to increase his bargaining muscle if he persuades his countrymen to vote Yes, when in fact his muscle will be sliced almost in half.

I may owe the Three Stooges an apology for this headline. I doubt even they would tolerate as big a knucklehead as Kenny.

Posted by peiper     on 09/06/2009 at 12:28 PM   
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