Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Fw: Irish Election

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Subject: Irish Election

Irish Election

Hungover or not, there's a problem

Posted: 14 Sep 2010 12:20 PM PDT

In the now infamous interview (transcript)with Morning Ireland, Brian Cowen –

Could not provide a headline number for the total budgetary adjustment being sought next year
Was reduced to vague jargon in trying to explain the budgetary process ('estimates campaign") — this from someone who served 4 years as finance minister
Barely could muster an opinion on whether Dublin should have a Mayor, a critical urban policy decision
Made it clear that despite earlier claims to the contrary, nothing has been done on initiating the Croke Park Agreement or will be before 2011
Hadn't been briefed on the earlier interviews that had taken place about the conference, not least with the despairing graduate and couldn't generate any specific message for her

The FF circling of the wagons today includes the claim that we should focus on the content of what he said. It ain't pretty.

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