Quote from Debaser82:
Shouldnt he rather be writing about all Republican candidates wanting to attack Iran rather then crying over the loss of the likes of Berlusconi who would have been in jail 10 years ago if he didnt wrote the laws to keep him out himself and owned all the TV channels to keep the propaganda machine going?
I think you make the mistake of personalizing this. Yes, Silvio was a bad guy - incompetent, corrupt ..., but Italy has a democracy and its own way of disposing of such - it may be uglier and slower and more tedious than we like, but that's what democracy is.
G-pap, on the other hand, was a good guy as far as Berlin/Brussels was concerned, up to the point where he said, "look, we're going to have a revolution on our hands. If we're going to turn the screws even further, we better get some democratic legitimacy for it." At that point, he was summoned to Cannes and fired.
Yes, markets are rejoicing, but this kind of crap never ends well. Never.
And, yes, we can all agree that the slate of candidates for Prez are yahoos. When has it ever been different? Not sure what it has to do with this discussion.