About Guts

The fact that, during the local elections, the country’s President is the one that dictates approximately 50% of the debate issues is simply based on guts. Actually, his entire political career was based on guts.

The fact that, during the local elections, the country’s President is the one that dictates approximately 50% of the debate issues is simply based on guts. Traian Basescu brakes the law systematically, he attacks and supports the candidates without fearing at all. Actually, his entire political career was based on guts.

 
He won the Bucharest City Hall for the first time and he kicked out almost the entire leading board of his party, including Petre Roman. When he won the second mandate, he promised he would start the actual work without the SDP obstacle in the way. He became President right after that and he put Stolojan on the side. Today, Basescu criticizes Sorin Oprescu, because he left the City Hall for the Senate. The President suggests that there are rules that everyone, besides him, has to abide by. Guts.

 
Basescu started a national scandal between two presidential polls by saying illegalities happened during the voting process. All the independent controls contradicted his statement, but the guts had appeared already. The President didn’t speak about those illegalities ever again. He probably forgot the episode. Another rule of guts: the total lack in memory. One has to jump from one boldness to another very quickly in such a way that the public wouldn’t have time to see what’s going on.

 
This is how it really was. Basescu formed an unnatural and non-functional Government by blackmailing the Conservators and the Democrat Hungarians. Right after he did that, he insulted the Conservatives and asked for elections. Some guts!

 
In parallel, he named the wife of a magnate of tobacco as juridical adviser in Cotroceni. When the media revealed some of the man’s serious problems, the woman resigned and the magnate hanged himself. Have you ever heard Basescu talking about this? The real cheekiness means the immediate elimination of that part of reality that disturbs.

 
Sometimes, the Presidential cheekiness was manifested with the help of other persons. Monica Macovei asked for the right to name magistrates politically, because she didn’t like the existing ones. Daniel Morar asked the Parliament for the right to comb out my house just until the moment in which I quit as the President of the Deputies’ Chamber.

 
One has to have a lot of guts to accuse other people of corruption after illegally becoming the owner of a house in Bucharest while being the Mayor and building another house in Otopeni with the help of some real-estate tricks.

 
One has to have a lot of guts to talk about the “accursed system” from the position of candidate for the Presidency while being guilty for the disappearance of the Romanian fleet.

 
I know there are a lot of people that admire guts, especially the presidential guts. However, we lost and lose a lot from this grotesque spectacle. An entire country behaves to please a person who plays with the laws and common sense. This is real life.  Basescu’s cheekiness is more important than extremely high prices, than a politically and administratively exhausted Government, than a falling currency or than certain international relations.

 
P.S. After the women’s handball match last week, the result of the Norway-Basescu game became 2-0. Friends know why…