Posted on 06/10/2010 5:01:37 AM PDT by Eurotwit
The Dutch have impressed me giving so much support to the pro-business agenda of Rutte in addition to the support for Wilders.
Rutte's party agenda sounds like almost "tea party'ish" in its smaller government agenda. Wilders is of course well known around here.
Cheers.
Great news! Congratulations.
Interesting indeed.
The Dutch are showing signs of life.
Thanks for the ping...the Dutch have always been good businessmen, and had a practical and fair side to them. Great news...
Not so great news:
The Christian Democrats, the “Republicans” of the Netherlands lost nearly half of their votes, from 40 to 21. Wilders’ party is anti-Islamicist, but has also been socialistic, pro-gay, pro-abortion, pro-drug. (It’s sort of as if Wilders figured out that Muslims kill gays.)
(Hopefully, the CDA will wake up and start fishing for Wilders’ supporters’ votes.)
If only it could happen here!...............YES, WE CAN!..............
You can take the European out of Europe, but you can’t take the Europe out of the European............
Another tidbit:
Mark Rutte of the Peoples Party for Freedom and Democracy, which goes by its Dutch acronym VVD, shone in a nationally televised debate Wednesday, defending a platform that includes building nuclear plants and cutting government jobs.
“Windmills aren’t powered by wind,” Rutte jibed. “They’re powered by subsidies.”
Along with aggressive spending cuts, Rutte’s platform is almost as tough on crime and immigration as that of Wilders’ Freedom Party for instance, making immigrants ineligible for unemployment compensation for the first 10 years after they arrive.
AP
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hkcXnYfQSPUksbhuaKnsoXMGFuVAD9FV6OPO0
Far too little, too late...
This looks like it could have been written by one of the Washington Post hacks. Whenever they can, they point out a physical feature of someone.
That’s why I find the results interesting. The CDA are the sort of “republicans” that have largely helped create the tea party phenomenon. They ruled with the socialists in labour for goodness sake.
You also are less than truthful when it comes to Wilder’s economic agenda. Wilders want to lower taxes and remove government regulations. Yeah, he might be more libertarian when it comes to social issues than some freepers, sure...and he wants to keep the retirement age as is.
That is where Rutte’s strong showing come in. People in Rutte’s party where sceptical about cooperating with Wilders - not because of his anti islamic immigration agenda, but due to the issues of rising the retirement age.
In any coalition, Wilders would have to give that up. I.e. move the the right on some of these economic issues whilst retaining the stance against islamism.
However, getting a working coalition out of this requires more than Rutte and Wilders and is going to be very very difficult.
No bias there!
FYI. Wilders’ socialistic party platform:
The Party for Freedom combines economic liberalism with a conservative programme towards immigration and culture. The party seeks tax cuts (16 billion in the 2006 election programme), de-centralization, abolition of the minimum wage, and limiting child benefits and government subsidies. Regarding immigration and culture, the party believes that the Judeo-Christian and humanist traditions should be treated as the dominant culture in the Netherlands, and that immigrants should adapt accordingly. The party wants a halt to immigration from non-western countries. It is skeptical towards the EU, is against future EU enlargement with countries like Turkey and opposes a dominant presence of Islam in the Netherlands.[21] The party is also opposed to dual citizenship (see below).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_for_Freedom#Political_issues
I meant to put socialistic in brackets.... And also add that economic liberalism means free market policies in case any one should be confused.
Cheers.
I suspect it's more like the "anti-national suicide" Party for Freedom.
I cheered LOUDLY today when NPR had a mini-stroke about this.
I’m so happy they had their little melt-down.
The proper term is "Islamifucation"
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