May 28, 2005
JUST WHEN THINGS WERE GOING SO WELL...
What's red and green and in trouble? (Judy Dempsey, 5/25/05, International Herald Tribune)
Germany's Greens, once a protest party of Marxists, Maoists and Trotskyites that first tasted power 20 years ago by joining a Social Democratic government in the state of Hessen, are gearing up for another fight. This time, the stakes are much higher.
"The big question is whether the red-green experiment is over," said Ralf Fuecks, director of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, which is affiliated with the Greens.
It seems a shame to stop the experiment before seeing if they can make every single German jobless. Posted by Orrin Judd at May 28, 2005 8:58 AM
All they need is a little duct tape.
Posted by: Mike Morley at May 28, 2005 10:07 AMMike:
Don't you know they despise us Red Staters for our allegiance to duct tape and WD-40?
Posted by: oj at May 28, 2005 10:13 AM"If women don't find ya handsome, at least they'll find ya handy!"
Maybe the dreath of the Green Party in Germany will help to inject a litre or two of saline into the womb in which the American Green Party slumbers.
Posted by: Governor Breck at May 28, 2005 10:56 AMI wonder which Red Green show is a better comedy -- Germany's or Canada's?
Posted by: John at May 28, 2005 12:12 PMI have a hard time imagining the German version of Red Green. A guy in Lederhosen with a roll of duct tape who says things like, "Verwenden Sie Luftschachtklebeband, um Sachen im Platz zu halten und WD-40, um sie zu erhalten zu bewegen."
Posted by: Mike Morley at May 28, 2005 12:25 PMBob Rubin won't be joining this party either.
Posted by: Robert Schwartz at May 28, 2005 12:50 PMWatermelons, one and all - green on the outside but red on the inside.
Posted by: obc at May 28, 2005 10:57 PMDon't you know they despise us Red Staters for our allegiance to duct tape and WD-40?
Sorry, OJ -- New Hampshire went to the Dark Side.
Posted by: Matt Murphy at May 28, 2005 11:34 PM