When The Frau scowled in answer to President Obama’s affable inquiry of “How’ve you been?” he said , “Well you have a few things on your mind.” which was very nice of him, and totally unlike anything she would say to the leader of a lesser nation making a total botch of everything. But there you are.
Now one of the few things The Frau has on her mind is that pesky Greek question, and how those damn inferior good for nothing Greeks simply cannot realise that they must toe her line. Whatever that may be. Yes, even if it means the total destruction of their country, and not just their economy (that has already been accomplished).
The elections went extremely badly for her and now there must be a rerun. She’ll be damned if she accepts anything but a vote in favour of the two ruling parties, Pasok and New Democracy, who have wonderfully spineless, malleable, and some say utterly blackmailable politicians.
She has set the dogs barking, such as her kinetically challenged Finances Minister, to terrorize us and bully us with expulsion from the Euro, hunger and oblivion should we dare go against her Iron Will. And it does appear likely that the electorate may be cowed into partial retreat after all. But she can’t leave anything as important as this to chance! Don’t forget Greece represents a whole 2% of total EU GDP! (At least it did, but is probably far less now that she has managed to reduce our economy by something like 20%).
So in comes the diplomatic episode. She is reported to have telephoned the Greek President to tell him that Greece should hold a referendum at the same time as the elections, asking whether Greeks wanted to remain in the Euro or not. The President conveyed this request to the interim Prime Minister who of course informed the political parties as he was constitutionally bound to do.
All hell broke loose! Loud protests from both right and left. Alexis Tsipras of the Syriza party said that The Frau had become used to treating Greece like a second rate protectorate and dictating terms because the former governments had given her that right through their spineless obsequiousness. But the right wing party also screamed that she was totally out of line with such a request. Not least because every act of overbearing bullying inevitably leads to a rise in the left wing party’s ratings.
As soon as pandemonium broke out a spokeswoman of The Frau denied the allegation. She had never said such a thing to the Greek President. Nevertheless, the Greek President’s office stuck to its guns and issued a statement saying that this was precisely what she had said. Confusion. Doubt.
However, we now hear that tomorrow’s printed edition of Der Spiegel will confirm that The Frau did indeed tell the Greek President that she wanted a referendum on the Euro to coincide with the elections.
What is not in dispute is that she did make a direct call to the President of Greece. Whatever for? She should know that the President of Greece has about as much power as the Queen of England (though probably not as much sense.) She should also know that Constitutionally there was no way either he or the Greek Government could call for a referendum at all. And perhaps above all, she should know that this unacceptable meddling in the democratic process of a member state, apart from being totally unacceptable and even abhorrent, would have the opposite effect on the electorate.
Is The Frau losing it? Or maybe she never really had it. Gone are the heady days of the Merkozy Triumph of the Wills it would appear. The days when she just had to snap her fingers and all the European heads of State prostrated themselves on the ground to do her bidding. Even though they knew her policies would only lead to destruction.
Well, though I am far from being convinced that she will be overpowered and prevented from turning Europe into a heap of rubble after all, it does appear that things are being made more difficult for her to achieve her aim. And though Greece will probably be blown out of the water sooner rather than later, at least a cheeky young man has had the guts to tell her what he thinks of her idiocy. That the mess is the result of The Frau’s Nonsense Economic policies imposed through threat and coercion.
And The Frau does not like this. She does not like it at all. To the extent of not only making a fool of herself with this idiotic diplomatic episode, but a fool of the German Foreign Affairs services too. There is no way they did not know, first that the President of Greece is nothing but a figurehead, unable to make decisions, second that the Greek Constitution has certain specifics governing the holding of referenda, and third that whatever the specifics may be, since elections have been announced and an interim government has been sworn in, there is no way at all a referendum may be called.
But of course, she was so hell bent on this brilliant brain wave of hers, that she just didn’t bother to ask anyone who would have known. I wont even mention the idiocy of rubbing the Greek electorate’s back up the wrong way with such arrant imperialistic heavy handedness.
Obama was kind enough to excuse The Frau’s scowling face with a “You’ve got a few things on your mind.” Lets hope the new Greek election, thanks to her own unacceptable dictatorial meddling in the democratic process of another sovereign state, changes ‘a few’ into a ‘a lot more’ on her dear little mind.
In one way or another, it will.