CSU: The 'Party' Party
Posted by in Politics at 5:46 p.m. on Oct. 01st, 20030 Comments 0 Pings
Edmund Stoiber was the guy who lost the election to Gerhard Schrder last November.
If you recall, Schrder, along with his troll-like, two-faced little minion Joschka Fischer, ran on a strong anti-US/Strong EU/Pro-Third World Dictator/Good old Days of Communism ticket. Apparently, this just excited the Germans all the more, as the subsequent success of Soviet-era nostalgia items, and films such as “Goodbye, Lenin“, has shown. This is in keeping with Schrders general politics, being the head of the german socialist party, and Fischer’s as well, he being a tree-hugging Green.
Stoiber is a member of the CSU, which is the Christian party. The CSU is much less socialist and hippie as the Red/Green coalition. For example, they don’t back the nightmarish “Dosenpfand” that is currently wreaking havoc in Germany. This is crazy: When you buy food or drinks in disposable containers, you actually have to pay a deposit on it. If you buy a beer, for example, you pay 15 cents per bottle or can, then you have to keep your receipt and take it back to the same place you bought it from. It makes absolutely no sense. It’s bad for business, as well. I know that I refrain from buying things in disposable containers. I buy about half as much beer as I used to, finding it much easier to drink in a bar than it is to keep up with millions of receipts, and matching them to the correct bottles to take back. Some things should just be thrown away.
But this isn’t about how silly and misguided the Reds and Greens are, it’s about what would happen if the leader of a Christian political party in the states got his picture taken in this situation:
That would be awesome!
If you recall, Schrder, along with his troll-like, two-faced little minion Joschka Fischer, ran on a strong anti-US/Strong EU/Pro-Third World Dictator/Good old Days of Communism ticket. Apparently, this just excited the Germans all the more, as the subsequent success of Soviet-era nostalgia items, and films such as “Goodbye, Lenin“, has shown. This is in keeping with Schrders general politics, being the head of the german socialist party, and Fischer’s as well, he being a tree-hugging Green.
Stoiber is a member of the CSU, which is the Christian party. The CSU is much less socialist and hippie as the Red/Green coalition. For example, they don’t back the nightmarish “Dosenpfand” that is currently wreaking havoc in Germany. This is crazy: When you buy food or drinks in disposable containers, you actually have to pay a deposit on it. If you buy a beer, for example, you pay 15 cents per bottle or can, then you have to keep your receipt and take it back to the same place you bought it from. It makes absolutely no sense. It’s bad for business, as well. I know that I refrain from buying things in disposable containers. I buy about half as much beer as I used to, finding it much easier to drink in a bar than it is to keep up with millions of receipts, and matching them to the correct bottles to take back. Some things should just be thrown away.
But this isn’t about how silly and misguided the Reds and Greens are, it’s about what would happen if the leader of a Christian political party in the states got his picture taken in this situation:
That would be awesome!