kings of the midden

The resignation of Willie O'Dea after Pimpgate is a peculiar one. I listened twice to the tape extract published by the Limerick Leader and to some extent I could understand how Silly Willy could have forgotten such an off-the-cuff remark, especially as he never actually went as far as overtly calling his opponent a whore-monger ... in fact, he called him a lot worse in the previous few sentences and it just shows what a shit-hole Ireland actually is that pointing out that somebody's political party are a bunch of barely cleaned up terrorists gets ignored and you get into trouble for being incorrectly implying that they were involved in running a brothel .. or was it in swearing an affidavit that he never actually implied any such thing? If he as good as perjured himself then that is indeed a firing offence for a minister and as a TD. The trouble with Fianna Fail is that having been the country's premier vendors of bullshit for many years, they can no longer distinguish good bull from horse manure, and the fact that the Provos are climbing up their backs in the whole sanctimonious hypicrosy game gets to them in a way it shouldnt. Willie O'Dea may yet find himself facing a criminal investigation for electoral malpractice and maybe even perjury, all for not being able to just say --"Maybe I said something like that -- what of it?"