‘Unmitigated horseshit’ is the politest term that came to my mind upon hearing Mary Hanafin’s so-called reasoning for not saying before the Fianna Fail parliamentary party vote last night which way she was voting. To hear her say on the RTE News at One just now that she didn’t want to ‘influence’ her parliamentary colleagues is staggering in its abject dearth of leadership. Leadership, dear Mary, is all about influencing others. And her Jesuitical thinking that she can remain in Cabinet although she has no confidence in Brian Cowen as Leader of Fianna Fail but she has confidence in him as Taoiseach is potty, illogical, spineless shite. Let’s call it what it is, Mary. Thank goodness we now know of this bizarre instance of the labyrinthine tangles of her thinking because, Jaysus boys, now we know that not only was the so-called dream ticket of Micheal Martin and Mary Hanafin a mirage but hopefully Hanafin will be back at the chalkface come September and good riddance to her. And as for the honourable Micheal Martin, now you know you won’t be laboured with a ‘friend’ in Mary Hanafin in the next Dail or whenever, if ever, you, Micheal Martin, become Leader of Fianna Fail or Taoiseach.
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Cowen and Fianna Fail in Denial
We deserve the leaders we get. If Fianna Fail vote confidence in Brian Cowen tonight, its opponents will be delighted and FiannaFail will not deserve to survive. Period. Listening to Cowen, the subtext to his every utterance is ‘denial’. How anyone with an ounce of sense could believe that Cowen is the best man for the job beggars belief. And he tells Morning Ireland on RTE Radio 1 just now that the way he handled the IMF bailout was grand. Even though his stooges Ministers Dermot Ahern and Noel Dempsey were haplessly televised together shaking their head denying the IMF were about to move in one week before the IMF bailout. Well might Dempsey and Ahern grab their pensions and run. Neither would be re-elected. But if FF vote Cowen back in tonight, voting confidence in their ‘leader’ who has led Ireland to such ignominy and distress (denied by Cowen, of course), then FF deserves to go the way of tyrannosaurus rex. Voting for Cowen tonight is nothing other than lemmings sauntering over cliffs and turkeys voting for Christmas. If they do so, they cannot blame Cowen for their demise but themselves. Will De Valera turn in his grave if Sinn Fein leads the Opposition in the next Dail ahead of the rump of FF?
Is Cowen about to resign at last?
Few people will lament the resignation of Brian Cowen as Taoiseach/Irish prime minister if, as the rumour mill has it, he is about to resign. How can a man who presided over the IMF bailout, and who has dragged Fianna Fail to its lowest level in the opinion polls, have any doubt but that the sooner we see the back of him the better? Could he be so self-deluded as to believe that Ireland is better with him as leader than without him? Truth comes dripping slow…