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...reaction of Le Pen's fellow MEPs was one of indignation and rage. Backed by a huge majority of legislators, the push to deny the French politician his moment as president now looks a virtual certainty. "Mr Le Pen's negationist remarks, reiterated once again in the European Parliament, disqualify him from chairing the inaugural session of our institution for even a second," said Joseph Daul, the French leader of the Christian Democrats in the parliament. "In this symbol of the reconciliation of European people, it would be an extremely bad signal for our citizens and the world," agreed Martin...
...That mounting pressure pushed Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany to announce Saturday that he would step down. At first, friends and enemies alike wondered if it was a trick by the wily politician to bolster the besieged government. But on Monday Gyurcsany said his resignation was permanent. "I hear that I am the obstacle to the cooperation required for changes," he reportedly stated at a congress of his Socialist party (MSzP) over the weekend. "If so, then I am eliminating this obstacle...
Barely a day goes by on Capitol Hill without some politician expressing a good measure of righteous indignation. It's less common for virtually every member of Congress, Democrat and Republican alike, to have the same target for his or her carefully calibrated anger. But when all that talk actually gets channeled into immediate action, then you know that something really historic is happening in Washington - and that Congress (and the public) may well come to regret...
...well established by Tuesday evening, when Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner wrote a letter to Senate majority leader Harry Reid. "I know," began the embattled Geithner, "that there is considerable outrage in the Senate, as there is throughout the country, about the bonuses." Indeed, outrage was the theme of politician, pundit and President of the United States at each new revelation about the bonuses paid out of federal bailout money to AIG executives. There was so much outrage, in fact, that furious red overtook St. Patrick's green as the color of the day. But in the end, what were...
...event wore on, even Obama did not seem that into it, a surprising misfire for a politician who has long excelled at striking the right tone at public appearances. He was almost grinning as he described the "recklessness and greed" of the traders in AIG's financial-products division, a reckless band of wealthy incompetents who made bets they could not pay for, leaving the American taxpayer on the hook for as much as $173 billion in emergency funds - an enormous sum that works out to about $600 for every man, woman and child in America. "How do they justify...