Conservatives crush Liberals in German elections
Posted by Bill Dupray
on Sep 27 2009 Filed under Politics.
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And so it begins. Angela Merkel and her conservative coalition scored a huge win in the German parliamentary elections today, handing the the lefties (the German version of the Obots) their worst defeat in years.
It must have killed the New York Times to report this story. Since all the German parties call themselves some form of ‘Democrat,’ I’ll give you the decoder ring up front. Merkel’s party is the Christian Democrats and the defeated libs are the aptly named Social Democrats.
Chancellor Angela Merkel claimed victory in national elections Sunday, with projections by public television stations putting her conservative party on a path to form a new center-right government and achieve Mrs. Merkel’s goal of ending the country’s “grand coalition” with the Social Democrats. . . .
A roar went up in the crowd when the German public television station ARD announced that the Christian Democrats had won nearly 34 percent of the vote. An even louder cheer greeted the news that their partners-in-waiting [the pro-business Free Democrats] had received roughly 15 percent of the vote, which together would be enough for a majority of seats in parliament.
So how big of a win was it?
The Social Democrats’ chancellor candidate, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, called the election night “a bitter defeat” for his party, which suffered the worst decline ever by a party in a German parliamentary election. . . . The Social Democrats were on track to win just 23 percent of the vote, according to ARD, a fall of 11 percentage points from the previous vote. . . .
The mood at the Social Democratic headquarters in Berlin was one of dismay and disbelief, and the discussion of who would take responsibility for such a complete defeat had already begun.
“I’m completely speechless and shocked,” said Michael Twardowski, 31, bank branch manager and member of the Social Democrats who worked on the campaign.
And just in case any American politicians are watching, here is what the winning German coalition stands for, none of which is supported by the Democrats in Washington.
Estimates by the German television stations, based on exit-polling data, varied slightly, but all agreed that the margin of victory would be enough to allow Mrs. Merkel to remain chancellor and to push ahead on issues such as tax relief, a simplification of the tax code, reduction of bureaucracy and a possible extension of the time that nuclear power plants can continue to operate.
And it seems like Change has reached it expiration date in Germany as well.
Voters in Europe’s largest economy have shown little appetite for dramatic change in the midst of the economic crisis.
The writing is on the wall for American Democrats, plain as day for all to see. If they just keep doing what they are doing, they will go the way of their Socialist brethren in Germany. But I can save them a little time in their post-defeat squabbling about who is to blame. He lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
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