ChairmanMiah
26-09-2008, 01:36 AM
Ah Comrade Joe,
Hasn’t it all worked out. You demanded at the last election that all banks be nationalised! And now Dubya - your arch-enemy - your Beelzebub - your bad bastard of a Christian Brother with a horn on him for wet t-shirt competition for Inter-Cert beours from Mount Mercy - has nationalised every investment bank this side of Wall Street.
If you fancy a gloating pint, let’s have one in Doheny and Nesbitt’s …
Viva la revolución
Ps … For old time’s sake
Mr. J. Higgins: Many of today’s newspapers were kind enough to point out that I was not in the House yesterday when the Labour Party leader asked the Taoiseach about his new found commitment to socialism. Ironically, I was abroad for several days on political work to advance the cause of socialism.
You can imagine, a Cheann Comhairle, how perplexed I was when I returned to find my wardrobe almost empty. The Taoiseach had been busy robbing my clothes. Up to recently the Progressive Democrats did not have a stitch left due to the same Taoiseach but we never expected him to take a walk on the left side of the street.
He said: “I am one of the few socialists left in Irish politics”. Immediately, Tomás O´ Criomhthaín came to mind, as he lamented the last of the Blasket Islanders: “Ní´ bheidh a´ r leithe´ idı´ arı´s ann”. I then thought:
“Good, Taoiseach. There are two of us in it and we will go down together.”
Sadly, I had to take a reality check. If this conversion was genuine we would have to go back 2,000 years to find another as rapid and as radical. Saul’s embrace of Christianity on the road to Damascus stood the test of time but the Taoiseach’s embrace of socialism on the banks of the Tolka hardly will.
Hasn’t it all worked out. You demanded at the last election that all banks be nationalised! And now Dubya - your arch-enemy - your Beelzebub - your bad bastard of a Christian Brother with a horn on him for wet t-shirt competition for Inter-Cert beours from Mount Mercy - has nationalised every investment bank this side of Wall Street.
If you fancy a gloating pint, let’s have one in Doheny and Nesbitt’s …
Viva la revolución
Ps … For old time’s sake
Mr. J. Higgins: Many of today’s newspapers were kind enough to point out that I was not in the House yesterday when the Labour Party leader asked the Taoiseach about his new found commitment to socialism. Ironically, I was abroad for several days on political work to advance the cause of socialism.
You can imagine, a Cheann Comhairle, how perplexed I was when I returned to find my wardrobe almost empty. The Taoiseach had been busy robbing my clothes. Up to recently the Progressive Democrats did not have a stitch left due to the same Taoiseach but we never expected him to take a walk on the left side of the street.
He said: “I am one of the few socialists left in Irish politics”. Immediately, Tomás O´ Criomhthaín came to mind, as he lamented the last of the Blasket Islanders: “Ní´ bheidh a´ r leithe´ idı´ arı´s ann”. I then thought:
“Good, Taoiseach. There are two of us in it and we will go down together.”
Sadly, I had to take a reality check. If this conversion was genuine we would have to go back 2,000 years to find another as rapid and as radical. Saul’s embrace of Christianity on the road to Damascus stood the test of time but the Taoiseach’s embrace of socialism on the banks of the Tolka hardly will.