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Tin-Pot Gods. Mc Dowell and Harney get Down and Dirty.

category dublin | anti-capitalism | opinion/analysis author Thursday June 22, 2006 11:34author by Sister Conception Cramp. Report this post to the editors

"The Triple Arm Of Good Governance"


Yesterday Minister for (Justice) Michael Mc Dowell TD
asked Minister for Health, Mary Harney TD to "step
aside" as party leader, before the next general election.
The possibilities are endless in terms of cliche.

One that springs directly to mind is an old Irish
favourite: "The Shit before The Shovel".


In the debate on the Sex laws, (that won't seem to go away)
Minister Mc Dowell TD referred to the 'Triple Arm of Good Governance'
as the arm of Law Enforcement, the judiciary and the offices of the State.

Given that the State is now a bureaucratic fiddling system, headed up
by a flatulent Taoiseach (Bertie, Man of the people).

The judiciary sign off on reams of bad laws, designed to confuse
and obfuscate the ordinary citizen .

The law-enforcement agencies are in internal dissarray.

Mr Mc Dowell's Maddening glimpse at his own ego-led power
lust ,blinds him to the fact that no-one wants a tin-god. Observe the
press coverage of the demand/ultimatum for Mary to step aside,
He is walking along a line of gardai with his hands clasped tightly
behind his back. So presidential, but no-one told us that he
has to do that because otherwise the reflex-jerking which his image
makers control with the placing of a folder, or tell him to put in his
pockets would bely the flapping motion, he is famous for.

The people who want so badly a leader, his apologists
are forgiven for basking in the glow of his mono-mania.

Someone has to salute the old beggar.

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   harney has or will step down     Chris Murray    Thu Sep 07, 2006 18:55 
   Farewell, NOT     Shop Steward    Fri Sep 08, 2006 02:22 
   bye bye     LaLa    Fri Sep 08, 2006 11:03 
   Harney Standing over indemnity deal. (20/10/03)     Chris Murray    Thu Sep 21, 2006 14:29 


 
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