A Change Is Gonna Come…
Germany moves to the right, like so many other European countries:
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday won the center-right majority that eluded her four years ago — nudging Europe’s biggest economic power to the right as it claws its way out of a deep recession.
Voters sent the nation’s main left-wing party, the Social Democrats of Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, into opposition after 11 years as part of the government. It was the party’s worst parliamentary election result since World War II.
“There is no talking around it: this is a bitter defeat,” a subdued Steinmeier said, vowing to lead a strong opposition.
The conservative Merkel managed to end her four-year “grand coalition” with the Social Democrats thanks to a very strong showing by her new coalition partner, the pro-business Free Democrats. Her own Christian Democrats produced an underwhelming showing.
This wasn’t the most dramatic recent election in Europe. A couple of years ago, Sweden’s Social Democrats – who’d governed the country for 79 of the previous 89 years – lost to a center-right coalition, which promptly began slashing taxes.
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September 27th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
Good deal, and Congrats to Germany!!!
Too bad we are stuck with an overbearing ego as president who arguably wants to RUIN the country he is supposed to lead…
Oh well, he looks good on tv, which should give him a chance to speak to the TENS OF MILLIONS who are UNEMPLOYED thanks to HIS DESTRUCTIVE POLICIES!!!!!
September 28th, 2009 at 6:08 am
Obambi will be largely irrelevant within a year. He’ll still be running his mouth, but nobody will be listening.
And reining in government has to be done at the legislative level, in any event, much like in Germany. You have to win elections there, and these things tend to occur in cycles around the globe. When Bush won in 2004, even as the Left was shrieking about Iraq, the other Iraq War supporters in England, Australia, Japan, Italy, etc all won. And the corrupt coot in Canada went down, as well as the French crook, and they were antis.
No matter if you’re pro war or anti war, it’s clear there was a global trend there.
The UK will get rid of that idiot Brown shortly. And I’d say this German election bodes well for us here, as a sign that we’re headed for a better governing coalition soon. Another global trend seems to be in play.