http://dublinopinion.com/2008/02/26/irish-greens-get-pragmatic-on-corruption/ It's a group blog. What more do you need to know? Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:31:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 http://dublinopinion.com/2008/02/26/irish-greens-get-pragmatic-on-corruption/#comment-63824 Seán Báite Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:06:39 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2008/02/26/irish-greens-get-pragmatic-on-corruption/#comment-63824 Dunno about Colombia - but Chuck might've found them a sound technique for their next leadership decider. I assume they'll have about the same influence on the Colombians as on the Sodgers of Destiny - they'll start using re-cycled bleach-free brown paper bags for the dinero... On a serious level - they do have a natural affinity with Ingrid Betancourt - who was actually a Green candidate, I think (with an anti-corruption spin). Even if they're far from having her courage or sense of principle. She (no less than the 100s of other Colombians held hostage by the FARC that don't have friends in Europe) is a very worthy cause and a woman currently in poor health in a very bad situation - but I reckon there's about as much hope of FF going clean as the FARC releasing her, sadly. Again on a serious level, I would've thought that of all the Irish political spectrum - the Sinners would have the most influence on the FARC - even if they deny ever having had any official contact with them (for the benefit of their fundraisers in the US). Someone should get Gerry on the case. Dunno about Colombia - but Chuck might’ve found them a sound technique for their next leadership decider. I assume they’ll have about the same influence on the Colombians as on the Sodgers of Destiny - they’ll start using re-cycled bleach-free brown paper bags for the dinero…
On a serious level - they do have a natural affinity with Ingrid Betancourt - who was actually a Green candidate, I think (with an anti-corruption spin). Even if they’re far from having her courage or sense of principle. She (no less than the 100s of other Colombians held hostage by the FARC that don’t have friends in Europe) is a very worthy cause and a woman currently in poor health in a very bad situation - but I reckon there’s about as much hope of FF going clean as the FARC releasing her, sadly.
Again on a serious level, I would’ve thought that of all the Irish political spectrum - the Sinners would have the most influence on the FARC - even if they deny ever having had any official contact with them (for the benefit of their fundraisers in the US). Someone should get Gerry on the case.

]]> http://dublinopinion.com/2008/02/26/irish-greens-get-pragmatic-on-corruption/#comment-63823 Thriftcriminal Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:49:30 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2008/02/26/irish-greens-get-pragmatic-on-corruption/#comment-63823 For a long time now I have been trying my hardest to view the greens as trying against all odds to fight the good fight within the slime that constitutes the current government. This is a blow to that view, I mean it's one thing to be a bunch of stooges, but another to be hopelessly incompetent enough to make it incredibly obvious with such bad timing. Perhaps that is the idea? Perhaps as stooges their standing orders are "Make it unavoidably clear that you are stooges" so that in the future their credibility is completely undermined. I still hope against hope that they will one day redeem themselves, but for the moment Larry, Curly, and Mo are very much in over their heads. For a long time now I have been trying my hardest to view the greens as trying against all odds to fight the good fight within the slime that constitutes the current government. This is a blow to that view, I mean it’s one thing to be a bunch of stooges, but another to be hopelessly incompetent enough to make it incredibly obvious with such bad timing. Perhaps that is the idea? Perhaps as stooges their standing orders are “Make it unavoidably clear that you are stooges” so that in the future their credibility is completely undermined. I still hope against hope that they will one day redeem themselves, but for the moment Larry, Curly, and Mo are very much in over their heads.

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