[MadIvan]

I predict Schroeder will be out by the end of the year. Not before time.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Bump!

[OldFriend]

Not soon enough!

[Miss Marple]

The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine.

Heheheh.

[Wphile]

I predict Schroeder will be out by the end of the year.

Well, that will certainly be a blessing. Sure wish it could be sooner.

[Hugin]

It will take more than Saddam Hussein to save Schröder,

And it will take more than Schroder to save Saddam!

[Republic of Texas]

Is this a good thing? Right wing Germans have their own history.

[LiberalBuster]

I guess Germans are getting a bit tired of "All Socialism, All the Time."

[nicollo]

This man's arrogance is equal only to that of Clintoon. Blair's recent leadership marks an unimaginable contrast to the "third way" types we heard so much of before.

Does anyone say the word anymore? I haven't heard it in the U.S.ofA since 9/11 or, a year before then, i.e. Bush's ascension. God, how I love to hear from Germans how smart is their Chancellor. He's smart straight into his political grave.

And what of his soon-to-be after life? Have they a library planned for him at Hamburg? Perhaps he can become the Poet Lauriet of Auschwitz. Or Baghdad.

PS Oh how I pine for a peek into the mind of Tony Blair -- what thinks he of our x42 today?

[You Dirty Rats]

I lived in Hanover in 1994. It's long past time for this original home of the current British Royal Family to kick Schroeder's party out of the state premiership of Lower Saxony.

[elhombrelibre]

Nothing could improve Germany's image in the civilized world like a good and decisive defeat for Saddam's favorite ideological hitman, four times married and working on his fifth, simply "I" Schroeder.

[Michael81Dus]

The Bundesrat is in control of the opposition yet.
CDU/CSU/FDP/PRO parties have a 35 votes majority in the house (69 members). After taking Lower Saxony over, the majority would be 41 votes.

Now:
35 CDU bloc
11 neutral bloc (SPD/CDU or SPD/FDP governed states)
23 SPD bloc

But more interesting, this more comfortable lead of 41 votes also will bring us a new president in 2004, because we´re having a majority in the Federal Assemby electing the President on May 23 2004.