Their “liberal” party the FDP (Merkel’s junior partners who’s support in polls has been eviscerated to mid-low single digits) is the best...on some things. But of course they are socially liberal and used to be led by a gay man.
I hope the Australian government falls before the next regularly scheduled election, Labor is poised to be crushed.
I thought during the German midterm elections or whatever, Merkel's party finally got an outright majority so they no longer have to govern by coalition? Of course they were never going to get anything conservative accomplished as long as they had a power sharing agreement with the left. Hopefully now she accomplish some good things. Merkel sounds decent, at least she seems more conservative than Cameron in the U.K. (he was all too eager to form a coalition with the british far left!), and the worthless Sarkozy in France (despite the fact a bunch of freepers seem to think France is our buddy now because that horny liberal douchebag vacations here and is upset with his "pal" Obama for not doing enough to combat global warming)
In any case, you have to go to eastern europe to find a politician that is conservative by American standards.
>> I hope the Australian government falls before the next regularly scheduled election, Labor is poised to be crushed. <<
That would be nice. It seems the Labor Party doesn't have a clue and is playing musical chairs with their prime ministers. Rudd is Prime Minister, then randomly replaced with Julia Gillard one day, now only a year later, it seems Labor is unhappy with Gillard and is talking about putting Rudd back in? These guys aren't in a position to lead. Bring back the Liberal Party! (which is ironically the conservative party in Australia)
The worst one is the Japanese Prime Ministers. They select a new one every year now it seems. I lost track after they got rid of Abe, although the one time they had a Catholic prime minister it was kinda cool, seeing as the country is only 1% Catholic. (odd how that gets no coverage from the MSN but a black guy elected in a white-majority country is the most epic news ever)
But I'm just rambling on now...