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Berlusconi has won. Berlusconi has lost. (314-311)

1,867,398 million euro is the new record for the public debt. In October we devoured 23 billion, in September the debt was 1,844 billion. On the same day as the record that drags us towards the economic abyss, 14 December 2010, at the Chamber of Deputies, Berlusconi won by 314 votes to 311.
An obscene clash took place in the hall of the red velvet , a clash between the companions who can smell the odour of revolution in the streets and are trying to save themselves with a double back flip, like Fini, disowning 15 years of mess-ups like Bersani and Casini. In the Chamber that was reduced to a stage of money-grubbers with pre-show quips and sudden applause that squashed the fear of the future (like those at the coffin carried on shoulders as it is leaving the church) you would have needed the madness of a guy like Lombroso to interpret the faces, the smirks, sneers, and exploits. To illustrate a new anthropology: the shit one. In a Parliament of people who have been sold, you cannot talk about votes that have been bought, just as it isn’t possible to find virgins in a brothel. The show put on by the deputies had one more performance. Actors with starry salaries, dark blue official cars, election expenses (theft) amounting to a billion euro thrown out by a referendum, journalists at their service paid with a pittance of 329 million while the country is plummeting. Look at them. Don’t they disgust you?
In all that, the Chamber this morning seemed like a meeting place for old mates. Berlusconi cuddling Casini’s neck, the guy Bocchino betrayed, the guy Fini paralysed by a vote that pensions him off after 40 years of a political career in which he has seen nothing, heard nothing, and said nothing before coming out of the sarcophagus, Fassino’s “vajassa” {servant}. Ms Mussolini’s lips and Ms Carfagna’s lips, Frattini’s sunglasses. The pregnant women, including the lawyer of Andreotti-the mafia-guy in-a-wheelchair. The “corte dei miracoli” had more dignity, a circus has more seriousness, a whorehouse more dignity.
In 2011 the economic crisis will sweep away this laughing humanity that has taken possession of the State and the media. Social ragamuffins that have found in politics the only route to success, to feel important, indispensable, “honourable”. I will not save anyone and I just hope that they will all withdraw in time, before the action is taken by History, that is, as is known, unpredictable and ferocious.

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Comments

Last night on Ballaro' Bondi, the Minister of Culture, urged Bocchino to go and hide. I don't know why. But Bondi is the last person (other than his boss) who should start throwing stones. Isn't he the Communist who got into bed with Berlusconi? Isn't he the one who used ministerial powers to get high-paying government jobs for his mistress, her son and her ex-husband? Who organizes Silvio's orgies? Who, like his predecessors, is allowing Italy's archeological treasures to crumble? Using the same standards he uses to judge his colleague Bondi should fall off the face of the earth, never mind hiding.

Posted by: Louis Pacella | December 15, 2010 07:35 PM

Berlusconi is like a messenger from God. He has been sent to warn the people of everything that is wrong in all the Western so called democratic nations, not just Italy. He represents the four sins: greed, corruption, power and immorality that are destroying the fabric of our societies.

Posted by: peter fieldman | December 15, 2010 01:42 PM

A comment from today's Independent newspaper:

One historian, Ernesto Galli della Loggia, writing in Corriere della Sera, noted that Mr Berlusconi had merely shown his ability to win elections. He said that despite completely dominating Italian politics for the past 15 years, the billionaire mogul had achieved little of note for the country. Italy is the only European nation where the average person is poorer than he or she was 10 years ago.

Posted by: Shelagh Barker | December 15, 2010 10:03 AM

I disappointed, but not surprised. Unlike Signore Grillo, I have little faith in the revolution, either that it will happen (though it may) or that it will succeed. Where will you find enough people in all of Italy who will refuse the money? I don't mean at the beginning, when no one's offering them any, but latter when someone shoves a few million euros under their noses -- where will these angels come from? Of course Signore Grillo is angry and disappointed -- after all, these protectors of the people had the head moron by the balls, a man fighting to stay out of jail for the many crimes he has committed -- and they let him get away for mortgage payments!

If anyone thinks I'm too cynical, let me say that I'm an American, and I've seen the most venal, murderous trash walk away with their loot at the end of 4 years or eight years, only to be replaced with someone else who is worse! Who's worse than Bush/Cheney? Why, a fellow who talks the progressive talk but walks the murder's walk, just like the politically expedient punk we have in office now. Whoever follows Berlusconi will be just like Berlusconi, because that all the Italian system is good for, just like whoever follows Obama will do exactly what Obama is doing -- licking up the ass crack of Mammon -- because that's all the American system is good for.

Posted by: Peppino Vallesi | December 14, 2010 07:57 PM

LA COSTITUZIONE ITALIANA ED IL CODICE PENALE SONO COME NAPOLI, TUTTA PORCHERIA. NESSUN PARLAMENTARE DI OGGI CERCA DI RIMEDIARE A QUESTA SITUAZIONE PERCHE' E' CONTRO I PROPRII INTERESSI PERCIO' SOLO IL POPOLO ITALIANO PUO RIMEDIARE A QUESTA SITUAZIONE, QUELLO ATTUALE E' UN REGIME TOTALITARIO. QUELLI CHE DETTANO LE LEGGI SONO SEMPRE GLI STESSI MOLTI DI LORO CON PRECEDENTI PENALI COMINCIANDO DAL PRIMO MINISTRO IL QUALE E' PURE INDAGATO PER CONNUBIO CON LA MAFIA. PEGGIO DI COSI' NON SI PUO ANDARE. QUANTO PUZZA STA POLITICA
MARIO SALASSA

Posted by: Mario Salassa | December 14, 2010 06:53 PM