Erm, do you not think this was all said with tongue firmly in cheek? A funny way of finger pointing at the mess FF have left the country. This is, after all, the man who turned John O'Donoghue epeöeptic on just his first day as Ceann Comhairle.
Indeed. It didn't originate with him, but it's funny nonetheless as it has both the rhetorical punch you mention and the advantage of winding up the more binary minded republicans no-end.