Berlusconi is not mad. Mad are those who voted for him.

It’s done here all the time.

I’m embarrassed for my Italian friends. It can’t be comfortable being represented by someone possessing such outrageous hubris. Berlusconi is all greased up and ready for his inevitable headlong slam into oblivion… it’s just a matter of when, not if.

How the hell do lying thieves like this get elected?

Berlusconi has been a loyal ally to Bush, and now Obama. They should be called as character witnesses. Si or no?

It’s not as if bribery is a big deal.  It’s legal here. Obama squeezed the banks and now the health ins. mass murderers (not to mention the war profiteers) for millions to get elected and stay in power. The money doesn’t go directly, I think, to our pols, but it keeps them in power.  And then after, if there is an after for the U.S., they collect.

So the planet is going to hell, death and destruction are rampant, people are starving. Business is business.

President Berlesconi is the real face of politics, Felline cinema’s like LA DOLCE VITA, its like that my friends real live with real mad man, they are all more or les like him, but some are not that elegant like Bill Clinton in his back room.

I heard that “spend more than €200m in consultants and judges” bit on the BBC yesterday.  Whether or not he is the best prime minister, he has now given us the best example of a Freudian slip for some time.  (I won’t say “for all time,” since I know things can always get more ridiculous.)  I also liked that line about being “the most legally persecuted man of all times.”  I wonder what the Vatican thinks about that?  Do they just want to dismiss it as being another Rome and another law?