Politics Gets More Interesting (II)
by H. Grodsk
Andrzej Czuma, the new minister for justice here, did not just leave angry creditors behind him in the US. He also tangled with the courts in a number of car accidents. Not to be outdone, the chief of one of the opposition parties, the League of Polish Families – remember them? – has also had a run-in with the law. Mirosław O. (for that is how he must be known) was caught driving while under the influence last week. He has a blog but I won’t give the address for fear that readers might be able to figure out what the “O” stands for and that I might therefore be held liable for breaching his right to privacy. This was the man, by the way, who thought the theory of evolution was a lie.
This frivolity might draw objections – there’s a crisis on, not a circus. Okay, okay, read the papers and marvell over the joke European parliament elections to see who gets to wield the rubber stamp. Will it be Jacek Saryusz-Wolski or Danuta Hübner or Cimosiewicz? And will Radek Sikorski get to be the boss of NATO? I don’t know why we should be so interested in any of these turncoats’ new jobs.
Tags: czuma, LPR, Polish absurd
March 10th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
There’s plenty more absurd in the world than in Poland, I assure you. And we should be interested in the turncoats and their sort because it just so happens that they govern us. They don’t go away - they move around. Keeping tabs on their jobs allows to anticipate what awaits us in the future, to some extent. Well, you answered your own question in your title, anyway. About something really interesting: how are things in the shipyards, our man in Gdansk?
March 11th, 2009 at 8:47 am
Does anybody rewally think the development of Europe or even of Poland will be different if Hübner gets a seat in the European Parliament and Marcinkiewicz doesn’t? Or vice versa?
March 12th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
Anybody thinks that perhaps the difference will not be in direction, but in motivation.
March 13th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
Anybody thinks that the difference would, most likely, not be in the direction, but in motivation.
March 15th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
Well, maybe I will be third time lucky and my reply will finally get posted in case those above were not rhetorical questions. If anyone’s asked, they would reply that in either case it appears that the difference in these two would be not so much in the direction, but in motivation.
March 17th, 2009 at 5:58 am
I really don’t think that my future under Cimoszewicz would be any different than under Marcinkiewicz, even if one of them is cleverer than the other or even if their motivations differ. As for the shipyards - they’re failing. They will probably be converted into gentrified apartments that no one who worked in the shipyards will be able to afford.