Berlusconi still won't concede to Prodi

[ECH1969]

Premier Silvio Berlusconi is hanging tough, refusing to concede defeat to his opponent, Romano Prodi.

Berlusconi has not made any public comments since the court's announcement on Wednesday that Prodi had won the lower house by 24 755 votes - a margin virtually unchanged from the one previously announced.

But Italian newspapers yesterday said the premier remained as combative as ever. "We'll fight. They'll have to deal with us," he was quoted as saying in La Repubblica, a left-leaning daily.

http://www.themercury.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=284&fArticleId=3212429

[no_hypocrisy]

1. And Generalismo Francisco Franco is STILL dead . . .

(Saturday Night Live long-running gag, circa 1975)

[Waya]

2. So is Yasser...

I feel for poor Silvio, really I do. It must suck bunches when the fix was in place.....and he still couldn't beat the opponent......tpugh to be silvio at the moment...imagine his disillusion......

[BrklynLiberal]

3. A preview of what Bush will act like in 2008.

They will have to drag him kicking and screaming from the White House.

[azurnoir]

5. You beat me to it n/t

[AndyTiedye]

11. Like This?

[BrklynLiberal]

12. Perfect.. Right down to the disgusting face.

[Robeson]

15. That picture just made my day!....

...Thanks!

[Robbien]

4. This is just Berlusconi's attempt to sidetrack Prodi's government

He wants to keep Prodi fighting him instead of governing the country so that they can call an early election because Prodi getting nothing done.

[alcibiades_mystery]

6. He is "hanging tough"????

Do you remember the desxcriptions of Gore's reasonable request that the Florida vote be recounted? Did any one of them portray it in a positive manner? But berlusconi, who has already had the top court decide that he lost is "hanging tough"??? He's causing a very dangerous crisis in Italian government. He needs to be told that it is well and truly over, and let's hope to God that Prodi investigates his ass fully.

[geek tragedy]

13. I Ragazzi Nuovi Sulla Piazza?

Combination Italian and NKOTB humor. Couldn't resist.

[Spinzonner]

7. Any real Consigliere, not just james Baker

get involved yet ?

[Lexingtonian]

10. Oh, Bush bailed on Berluscandal today

Standard honor levels among thieves are still operative, obviously.

Actually, I bet Prodi gave Bush what he asked for in return- Italy staying in Iraq until November.

I bet Blair bails on Sylvio tomorrow. Leaving Putin holding the highly odoriferous bag, so to speak, and Putin will drop it too.

After that it's a matter of internal fraying of the Italian Right coalition, which they have no trouble doing whatsoever and demonstrated last May. Prodi has to get that one Rightist party to bail out of the coalition, that's the game, and then it's curtains.

[Peace Patriot]

8. Berlusconi is nuts the way Bush/Cheney are nuts. They think they rule by

right, not by consent--and they put their corporate interests and personal power ahead of the good the country. If Diebold and ES&S hadn't "re-selected" Bush/Cheney in 2004, and if the war profiteering corporate news monopolies hadn't fiddled their exit polls to match the results of Diebold/ES&S's secret vote tabulation software, and if the Democrats hadn't caved, we might have had a similar situation here. Bush/Cheney were not about to hand over the reigns of power--not with the crimes THEY have committed and the potential investigations.

So, in a way, Berlusconi and Bush/Cheney are right. They don't rule by consent. They rule by personal power, by hook and by crook, by manipulation, lies and deceit, by purges of dissenters, by bullying, by swiftboating, by cruelty, by bribery and war and torture and skulduggery, and they view those they rule over as slaves and cannon fodder. How dare the peasants think that they have any say in who rules?

[Blaq Dem]

9. He's no Al Gore

It's amazing what happens when the shoe is on the other foot. Let's see how long this will play out.

[KamaAina]

14. Is this yutz related to Dino Rossi?

you remember, the guy who did the same thing after he LOST to Christine Gregoire in Washington st.

Hey Silvio, YOU LOST. Get over it. I'm sure you'll still be nominated to the Neo-Fascist Hall of Fame. :eyes:

[bluestateguy]

16. He needs to shut up an get over it. He lost.

nt

[cliss]

17. Does the little

Danny De Vito look-alike have some secrets? Like maybe some stuff in a filing drawer perhaps? Better do some spring cleaning, Silly-vio.

[baby_mouse]

18. Hell be squealing "I'm the real president!" from his death bed.

And he will never, ever regain control.

:-)

Ahhhhhhh.... isn't the Spring sunshine bright this year? :7

[BlueInPhilly]

19. I guess the sex abstinence didn't work N/T

[baby_mouse]

20. Not with ME, darling. I'm incorrigible. :D nt

[Zynx]

21. He'll be like Antonio Salazar, insisting that he's Prime Minister after

being deposed.

[AlCzervik]

22. Berlusconi having staff call florida right now looking for fake protesters

and Pat Peale can go along for the trip and make them all samdwiches.

[anotherdrew]

23. he doesn't need to concede, he needs to pack his desk and go

when does he leave office? when does the new Parliament vote?