Cowen Constitutionally Challenged

Cowen seems to think he's in Britain these days. We all know the Irish constitution serves to limit what our politicians can and can't do. People power, we lovingly call it - though when push comes to shove, we often allow ourselves to be bullied into what the Government wants in any given referendum.

But Cowen has a new twist on the constitution - a game of 'lets pretend we are in Britain and we have no constitution'. The man clearly believes he is all powerful, all knowing and all wise. Perhaps he believes the Salmon he ate in Mayo last year was the long elusive 'Salmon of Knowledge'. Or maybe the fat and the beer is encroaching on his grey material......

And what is this all about, you may ask? More power to Europe, no less - a 'let's giv 'em it all' mentality. 'Feck the Irish, sure they don't understand these things' mentality. 'I'm the Boss' mentality.;
Are we all stupid? Crazy? Things don't seem to have changed too much since 1916 when most of the Irish population felt ok for a few brave men to go out and sort out everyone’s problems. It’s the same today. We sit and allow our hard won sovereignty to be frittered away to the whims of both the winner and the losers of the Great War – and nary a word said.
Stupid, all of us.
Our self-styled Ard-Ri Cowen has been bragging that new laws concerned with a permanent bail out fund for EU countries will not have to be ratified by referendum. The man is clearly mad, deluded and with a brain that is thicker than his belly. What we are talking about here are fundamental changes to the Lisbon Treaty (one of those treaties rammed down the throats of the Irish with worse threats than most Englishmen ever uttered against the Irish).

Rebellion? No, not so much of a whisper. Yet the implications for Ireland are not insignificant. Persistently failing to bring our finances under control will see Ireland having its voting rights suspended under the plans. Jail for all of us! Sovereignty gone. Completely.

And Cowen will insist that’s it’s ‘business as usual’. So who’s going to stand up and fight? Who’s willing and capable to challenge the status quo? Much better that we face reality now and revert to our own ‘Punt’ which served us well in previous years – float as it may. At least with that we can control our own destiny as against effectively ‘sitting in prison’ p**sing against the wall.