On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 20:57:13 -0500, Denys Beauchemin
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>David wrote in part:  "...The French & Dutch votes are no big deal. The
>European political process always has gone in fits & starts...."
>
>To which I reply,
>
>The fact of the matter is the repudiation of the proposed EU constitution
by
>France and The Netherlands is huge deal.
>
>The proposed constitution was a monstrosity that evolved in secret over a
>period of several years by a team of "pseudo-intellectuals" led by an
>ex-president of France, Valery Gizzard Disdain.
>
>One should remember that France was the original prime mover of this whole
>concept of a unified EU and the Dutch signed onto the journey very early
on.
>When the prime mover rejects the constitution written by one of its own
>ex-prez, I should think it torpedoes the whole concept.  The results where
>not even close and the repudiation was even more pronounced in Holland.
>
>In Germany, the government didn't even trust its own people to vote
>"properly" on the constitution so they simply had the legislature ratify
it.
>That is probably one of the reasons Gerhard's ratings are almost in the
>single digits and why the Germans had better start getting used to the idea
>of a lady Chancellor.  (Can you say Merkle?)

Denys,

the name is Merkel. a conservative. First statement was that the CDU
(Christian Democratic Union) will raise taxes, cut benefits. Furthermore
they have no clue (never has Gerhard) how to lower unemployment.
Actually they now want the reforms that Gerhard wanted but the CDU blocked.
hmmmmmmm.
Think she'll get elected?
Don't really matter as both a lying politicians and the biggest liar gets
elected. Just like here and in the UK ;-)

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