[Congressman Billybob]

This is the proof, if any be needed, that the 500 or so pages of the EU Constitution (counting all its referred and incorporated documents) is a pathetic and failed effort to define a competent government. The idea that this can be salvaged in any way is further failure in the French fashion.

"If a plan failed yesterday, add more money, more bureaucrats, do it again, and THEN it will succeed, n'est pas?" What fools the French are, and all of Europe came close to throwing itself down the same rat hole as the French.

By the way, ratification requires 75% of the nations of Europe PLUS 75% of the population. Mathematically, this Constitution is already dead, without the Brits pounding another nail in the coffin.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column: "60 Million Frenchmen Can't be Wrong"

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From the VOA article at post #13:

If the most immediate issue facing Brussels is what to do about the constitution, the most pressing long-run challenge the EU faces is how to reconcile its need to create economic growth and jobs, and the desire of voters, especially in France, Germany and Italy, to preserve their generous, but unsustainable, welfare state. That is the real question Europe's leaders must grapple with, if the continent is to regain confidence in itself.