Drunk or Duped?

Yesterdays Morning Ireland will go down in the pop culture history of modern Ireland. Recently this blog said that Brian Cowen was looking for his "Reeling in the years" moment by inviting the english queen over on an ill timed, budget busting state visit. Now it looks like hes got his moment, but for different reasons.
Yesterday, at least according to Fine Gael and the Irish Media, Brian Cowen went on national radio, drunk as a intoxicated skunk.
Now we at Rathangan SF have listened to the interview on you tube, and in all fairness to Cowen, he sounded the same as always to us. The same gruff, slurring of words, refusal to commit on any issue Taoiseach that we've come to hate and despise.

Drunk Cowen

So we got to wondering, is this all a plot to discredit an already severely under fire Taoiseach?

We could see why Fine Gael would want that, but why would the so called impartial Irish Media turn on the leader of our Government?
The Irish Media have never been impartial, and have brought down more than one Irish Government. But would they sink so low as to claim that our leader was a scuttering drunken gobshite?
Maybe they weren't wrong about his intoxication?
Maybe the reason we didnt see a difference in Mr Cowen was because he and his government have been in a constant state of drunkenness since the formation of their Government. So heres five things that could indicate a permanent intoxication of the Irish government.

1. Mary Harney is still Minister for Health.
Despite being without doubt the most hated woman in the country, and despite showing herself to be not only incompetent in her handling of the Irish health service, but also incapable of seeing those mistakes that she makes and that are so clearly pointed out to her by everyone else in the country.
Having Harney in the front bench has been a constant hindrance for Fianna Fail, yet she remains. She offers them nothing. Surely only a drunk would not notice her malevolence.

2. Forced a second vote on Lisbon.
The Irish people clearly said no to the first Lisbon treaty. However the Government insisted on having a second vote. Only a drunk could be that stubborn.

3. Refuse to call by-elections. The government have continually refused to call the three outstanding by-elections even though this makes no since. If those three missing TDs arnt needed, then why are the tax payers paying so many reps? And if they are needed, then why refuse to call the elections? Only a drunk could come up with their own logic to justify this.

4. Close public transport links, but move ahead with planned construction of more motorways.
We're in the worst recession that modern Ireland had known, a time when you would expect people to be more ready to use public transport rather than own their cars. Our government has ignored this thought and closed the Rosslare to Waterford Rail Line. A planned motorway into Rosslare is going ahead however.
Drunks often have trouble making the right decisions, don't they?

5. Say we're out of recession even though unemployment figures are going up.
455,000 people are now on the live register. There has been a steady increase in the figures for the past few months. The government says this doesn't matter, we are still out of recession. We have argued with them over this, but you know what arguing with a drunk is like!

So maybe we have the worlds first permanently drunk government. How do we get out this mess? How do we avoid more mistakes, more cuts and more suffering for the normal people? And how will the government deal with the hangover their going to have on the morning after the next general election?