Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Japan's political leadership: Nothing but a bunch of clowns

Yes, Japan's political elite are nothing but a bunch of clowns stuffed inside their little clown car looking for that next gig which will lead to political super stardom.  But, success ever eludes them as they grasp defeat like they've just won the lottery.


Sadakazu Tanigaki the current President of Japan's Liberal Democratic party (LDP) who following then Prime Minister's Yukio Hatayama's first speech before the Diet laying the Democratic  party of Japan's vision for the country Tanigaki equated that speech with those given by Adolf Hitler to Nazi youth rallies in Nurenburg.   One might believe that following these asinine comments Sadakazu Tanigaki would be forced to resign. You would be wrong as failing up is all part of the political process. His further achievements include calling for new elections  every other day so that he can complete his master failure training and become Prime Minister. At which point I'm sure he'll enact some policies which will lead to the establishment of a political clown college.



Ichiro Ozawa is former member of both the Liberal Democratic party and the Democratic party of Japan.

Ichiro Ozawa is the Richard Nixon of Japan in the `I'm not a crook' category of political  leaders as evidenced by his involvement in a political funds scandal which led to several of his former aides be charged and tried on the misuse of political funds for purpose of buying land in Tokyo for the purpose of constructing of a dormitory for members of the Diet.  The fund is controlled by Ozawa and Ozawa alone yet he kept insisting that members of his staff made all the decisions concerning how those funds should be allocated.  Yet, his signature is all over the loan documents
which he claims are controlled by evil little elves who are out to destroy his successfully corrupt political career.  

Following the unsuccessful attempts to place him in the Grey Bar Hotel Ichiro Ozawa thinking solely of himself and his mad desire to become Prime Minister has formed a new political party Kokumin no seikatsu ga daiichi (People's Life Comes First) party with 49 other former members of the DPJ who are wholly owned by him. I'm sure the people will come "first" just as soon as Ichiro Ozawa's Galaxy sized ego is assuaged.      

On Wednesday evening the upper house of the Japanese Diet voted to censure Prime Minister Yoshihika Noda while the resolution is not binding the LDP, New Kometo and seven other smaller opposition parties will boycott the remaining sessions  of the Diet to force an early election which they hope return the LDP to power once again.

Remember these are the same clowns who following the bursting of the Bubble Economy decided that Japan hand't been driven far enough into the ditch so they wanted to give it further push by doing nothing to help the country recover  for more than a decade.

Return them to power so that their failure can be complete.

No comments:

Translate