Quotetalking about wastage - do we really need to have so many TDs in this country, do we need the Seanaid, or what the hell do we have an army for? - amongst other things!
Wille is the local TD which apparently makes him the best option. Wille said afterwards he pleaded with Michael Dell.Originally Posted by Bluebeard
talking about wastage - do we really need to have so many TDs in this country, do we need the Seanaid, or what the hell do we have an army for? - amongst other things!
I thought that Dell was out in Bray, or thereabouts. Or local in that he claims Shannon is in his jurisdiction (for this kind of thing), and the stop-overs mean that he is essentially the local TD for all of the US?Wille is the local TD which apparently makes him the best option. Wille said afterwards he pleaded with Michael Dell.
Representative of sovereign state "Pleading" with business exec. Nice. Should help the standing of the country now that everything has been tossed up in the air. I think I'll look for some kind of WSA Passport from here on in...
That question was less stupid, though you asked it in a profoundly stupid way.
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Dell is in Limerick, the one that was closing anyway. Not defending it but just correcting thats all.
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I think if he had had any balls he'd have left Anglo Irish Bank go to the wall. Yes, the government have to refinance the banking sector, but just saving AIB and BOI would have been enough (I can see these been nationalised by the end of the year). I don't see the point of increasing the national debt to save Anglo Irish. Guaranteeing the loans etc that people had would have been sufficient.
Cherrywood, close enough.
Probably along the lines of
"Jeez man, now I know why you're paid more than me, when as head of parliament, you can flee your nation on it's national holiday".
...that's it in a nutshell. Even on his supposed crowning glory with the peace process -that had reached endgame in any event by the time Bertie arrived and there were others who took far greater roles and risks. Bertie was just in the seat on the headline dates.
My enduring memory of him will be his answer when asked about the overheated property sector and (treasonous IMO) dripfeeding of servicable land for construction that was being engaged in to keep prices artificially high. He shrugged, he smirked and said there was nothing to be done as scarcely more than half a dozen individuals controlled the bulk of the land in question.
" I wish to God that someone would be able to block out the voices in my head for five minutes, the voices that scream, over and over again: "Why do they come to me to die?"
Saw Dunphy's rant on tv the other night, but he was right to ask why Cowen was addressing a bunch of businessmen (some of whom are responsible for the current situation) last Thursday evening instead of the wider public.
Obama addressing his electorate about his stimulus package now. He comes across as welcoming, optimistic, authoritative and confident. That's below our Taoiseach. He goes to China, Japan, and America and talks to power-freaks in the Dublin Chamber of Commerce, to deliver his addresses about how bad things are, and what he plans to do about it.
The electorate?? "Do as you're told, my way or the highway" is the tone. Running away from his own people.
Not sure I would choose Dunphys rants as basic for political argument but I get your point.
Isn't Dunphy a FF-er or any I wrong? Maybe he was just a supporter of Bertie? Then again Dunphy changes his opinion so often...
Just because Dunphy makes a point, doesn't invalidate it. Christ after all the years you'd expect a politician to deliver a speech without notes - it's hardly the great achievement elements of the media made out (and unscripted me arse). Frankly it's no surprise that he was most comfortable delivering it an enviroment where all FF politicians are in their natural surroundings - a room full of businessmen who have paid for the privledge.
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Yes. As Ruari Quinn remarked last night on Q&A, it's hardly a cause for celebration for a TD since 1984 to make a half-decent speech. He's had a bit of practice like. Still, if it spawned a little hope I'll look at it positively.
So it's not the speech itself that's instructive here, more the teenage-girl reaction that has followed. I think it highlights the vacuity and uninspiring nature of previous addresses; and relatedly, that we are desperately looking for any sliver of hope to focus upon.
While we need substantive causes for comfort, as important is a bit of mollycoddling, the sort a kind-hearted friend might dole out as you go through a particularly harrowing post-session depression. I appreciate the hugely more serious nature of say massive personal debt, but I think the human emotions involved are similar. You're playing a little on faith (that things will be better in the future) but when things are bad I think that's one element of what you have to do. Once people are assured life will get better then they are more committed to making it so.
[Somewhat unrelated aside: I just came up with one of those silly inspirational quotes that you come across the odd time. "A listless wallowing in the sea of desperation serves no one but the sharks assembled beneath."
] Damn! just remembered you're meant to stay still if there are sharks around! Oh well.. you get the idea anyway..
Who does he think he is? Ian Paisley??
People want their leader to be as I said about Obama in my last post. On the contrary, Cowen looks grumpy, snappy, and is more interested in lecturing than leading people, both in and out of the Dail. That image is horrendous publically, and despite his bull and bluster, he would fail to return to government in an election on that issue alone.
New Poll Today. This was taken before the revelations this week.
FG 32% (-2)
Labour 24% (+10)
FF 22% (-2)
Amazing increase by Labour. Hard to know they taken a big jump in this poll but not in previous ones?
FF blaming their drop on their "difficult decisions". If they really believe that then clearly they have failed to educate the country on the severity of the situation.
I would be surprised if these numbers held up for a General Election but would expect them to hold for local elections.
That poll has the shinners up 1 too.
Eamon Gilmore gave a pretty good speech in the Dáil the day of the pension levy (last Tuesday I think). Way better than Enda's anyway. But aside from that I really don't know how people could be impressed by him. Or Joan Burton for that matter. Still, Gilmore has the highest satisfaction rating of all leaders (and is up 6 points), suggesting there is an element of a positive validation of Labour's performance rather than the poll merely being a reflection of FF's gauche handling of the **** we're in.
In fairness Gilmore is by far the most impressive political leader at the moment
Although it'd properly be more correct to say the others look even worse the he does.
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did anybody see Oireachtas report last night? When Mary Coughlan was speaking some bloke beside her (looked like Lenihan but wasn't him I think) was talking away to himself....have the lunatics taken over the asylum??
Yeah I agree with that. I admit he's improved a good bit, got a bit more passion, since say the election. Kenny meanwhile.....
Didn't see it yesterday. Should be online at some stage.
Whatever about Cowen being the worst Taoiseach, surely Coughlan is the worst Tanaiste? Worryingly, she's Minister for Enterprise too. I'd maybe get Mick Martin back in there.
Because they are the only ones that have said what the country are thinking about the bank bailout. Most of the supposed stilumulus package, like the insulation and school building was said by labour last year. Maybe people are finally copping on to the fact, despite the "easy to be in opposition and not offer solutions" crap coming from Government.
This poll taken on Monday and Tuesday, after a weekend of wall to wall ridiculously pro Biffo coverage of the memorised speech. The Government would've collapsed if it had been taken later in the week. I hope people are realising who got us into this mess in the first place, rather than not accepting the measures that have to be put in place to solve it!
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