Sarcasm from the Wall Street Journal

Outrage would be a more appropriate reaction with almost the entire European Continent facing a real prospect of losing their representative democracies to be replace d by none know what! It cannot help but eventually affect even the largest of US corporations, rescuing Europe from tyranny cost enough American lives on two separate occasions in the past century did it not? The link to the article for subscribers is here, the opening is as follows: =============================================

Dutch Magic

How fortunate the Dutch are to have a mind reader as their leader. Two years after 63% of Dutch voters rejected the European Union's Constitutional treaty, Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende has judged that their concerns have been assuaged in the bloc's new Reform Treaty. On Friday, he announced that a second referendum will not be held.

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