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LIVE THREAD - German polls closed: AP: SCHROEDER DEFEATED!
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| September 18, 2005, 08:15
Posted on 09/18/2005 12:12:37 AM PDT by alessandrofiaschi
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To: Red6
Maybe Merkel can/will do what GW did during the early part of his term, go directly to the people and get them to force tax cuts and a different economic direction.
They have the Austrian model to follow. By using the Austrian model, they can avoid acting like America which would turn off the moderates.
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posted on
09/20/2005 8:19:29 AM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(Jamie Gorelick is responsible for more dead Americans(9-11) than those killed in Iraq.)
To: Grampa Dave
One could NOT have a more clear indication than that!!!
362
posted on
09/20/2005 8:24:08 AM PDT
by
SierraWasp
(The only thing that can save CA is making eastern CA the 51st state called Sierra Republic!!!)
To: Grampa Dave
363
posted on
09/20/2005 3:44:58 PM PDT
by
SierraWasp
(The only thing that can save CA is making eastern CA the 51st state called Sierra Republic!!!)
To: SierraWasp
No I hadn't.
Thanks for linking and pinging it.
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posted on
09/20/2005 4:22:30 PM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(Jamie Gorelick is responsible for more dead Americans(9-11) than those killed in Iraq.)
To: Grampa Dave; Dog Gone
Yer welcome!
Hope our friend Dog Gone doesn't git blasted down in his bailywick!!!
365
posted on
09/20/2005 4:29:13 PM PDT
by
SierraWasp
(The only thing that can save CA is making eastern CA the 51st state called Sierra Republic!!!)
To: SunkenCiv
366
posted on
09/20/2005 7:33:56 PM PDT
by
anonymoussierra
("The wisdom of the wise and the experience of ages-Isaac Disraeli")
To: SunkenCiv
So the Greens swing it, most likely to the 'watermelon' left?
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posted on
09/21/2005 6:04:49 AM PDT
by
Arthur Wildfire! March
("Rome wasn't burned in a day." [This message brought to you by Addams Family supporters of Blanko].)
To: Arthur Wildfire! March
CDU backs Merkel amid German election stalemate
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200509/s1464770.htm
"She called for CDU members and their CSU allies to either back her or sack her. In an overwhelming show of support, she won 98 per cent of the vote."
What coalition might work after German election?
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=103171
"CDU/CSU + FDP + GREENS -- The 'Black-Yellow-Green', recently dubbed 'Jamaica' after the colours of the Jamaican flag. It may appear unlikely and has never been tried even at regional level, but would allow conservative leader Angela Merkel to become chancellor. The Greens have criticised the opposition's labour market ideas as socially unjust and had hoped to introduce a minimum wage. The Greens also have a different view on health care."
German Election Deepens Sense of Paralysis
By JOHN LEICESTER
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5288503,00.html
"The inconclusive outcome of the closely fought election in Germany, Europe's biggest yet one of its most sluggish economies, only deepens the prospects for stagnation on the continent at a time when pressing domestic and international problems call for decisiveness."
Eastern frustration played big role in German election
By Katrin Bennhold International Herald Tribune
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/09/20/news/divide.php
"Easterners robustly backed the Left Party, a recently formed union of disaffected Social Democrats and former Communists from the East, eating into support for Schröder's Social Democrats. They also shunned Merkel, who would have become the first chancellor from Eastern Germany had she won a majority, but whose center-right program for painful reforms held little appeal."
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posted on
09/21/2005 7:31:36 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Down with Dhimmicrats! I last updated by FR profile on Sunday, August 14, 2005.)
To: alessandrofiaschi
"...Some five million Germans are out of work, the country's pensions system is in crisis, its public finances are overstretched and the economy that once drove growth in Europe is now acting as a drag on the rest of the continent."
Ahhhh...Socialism...the dream of the American left...
369
posted on
09/21/2005 7:46:03 AM PDT
by
FrankR
(Don't let the bastards wear you down...)
To: FrankR
Ronny Hellbrecht -- "Of course we are frustrated - who wouldn't be frustrated with 20 percent unemployment?"
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posted on
09/21/2005 10:13:40 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Down with Dhimmicrats! I last updated by FR profile on Sunday, August 14, 2005.)
To: bill1952
From what I've heard, Dresden is about the same as Philadelphia or Detroit as far as voting goes, and that gives Herr Schroeder the win.
Not exactly. CDU candidate won Dresden three years ago, although with just 33.8% of vote.
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posted on
09/22/2005 4:04:35 PM PDT
by
AdrianR
To: Heartofsong83
Er es morgen in Deutschland... (It is morning in Germany).
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posted on
09/23/2005 10:42:27 PM PDT
by
Schwaeky
(The Republic, will be reorganized into the first American EMPIRE, for a safe and secure society!)
To: ukman
probably had a howard dean moment (how does arrrrgg translate into German?)....
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posted on
09/23/2005 10:44:05 PM PDT
by
Schwaeky
(The Republic, will be reorganized into the first American EMPIRE, for a safe and secure society!)
To: Heatseeker
Schroder taking a play out of the Gore/Kerry playbook...
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posted on
09/23/2005 10:49:01 PM PDT
by
Schwaeky
(The Republic, will be reorganized into the first American EMPIRE, for a safe and secure society!)
To: ukman
Isn't Merkel from the former DDR?
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posted on
09/23/2005 10:51:33 PM PDT
by
Schwaeky
(The Republic, will be reorganized into the first American EMPIRE, for a safe and secure society!)
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