Today news reports confirmed that Angela Merkel’s conservative party, the CDU will be forming a leading coalition with the German libertarian party, the FDP, which was able to win nearly 15% of the vote.
This likely means the Guido Westerwelle, the FDP leader, will be appointed Foreign Affairs minister – a maneuver not unlike Hillary Clinton’s appointment as Secretary of State.
The FDP is in favor of free trade, limited government and social progress. In fact, the appointment would make Mr. Westerwelle the most influential and openly gay man in world today, if he wasn’t already.
In a May interview with Der Spiegel, Westerwelle stated a desire for a closer relationship with the Obama administration, calling for a German foreign policy with influence Obama on Nuclear issues as SALT expires. This may mean continued German support of coalition troops in Afghanistan.
Look for upcoming GW Discourse exclusive interviews with DC-based CDU and FDP representatives.
Your post fails to mention the gains made by Die Linke, which is now Germany’s leading force on the left. But that’s typical of the media, which refuses to take Die Linke seriously, even though more Germans are now backing it. It made even more important gains than the FDP. Can’t you see? Capitalism has failed. Germany’s experiment with the FDP in government will prove that Die Linke are the only ones who know how to move the country forward. I just hope we still have a social system by the time Guido’s spass party is done raping the German working class.
The FDP’s policies are going to make Germany’s economy go from largest in europe to largest in THE WORLD.
High digger, you kapitalistischer schwein, how can you cay that? don’t you get it? Prices are climbing in Germany. Have you tried to buy bread in a supermarkt? And wages for people who actually work are stagnant or going down. So while Guido and his gay mafia buds who control the big corporations get rich, the rest of us normal Germans are going to get screwed.
Ironic that this would happen on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the wall. After his election, maybe we should just put it back up.
Oh, so this friggin’ Kraut Igelfeld thinks the two first ladies of Germany should go laissez-faire? Worked great for the Weimar Republic.
Billybats, you are right — Germany tried laissez faire in the 1920s and it brought us starvation, revolution and Hitler. apparently Germans want those things again. There’s no other reason to vote for that Frau Westerwelle.