Quotable Rohde
Real story from Denmark.
The Social Democrats have gotten their panties in a bunch over the Political spokesmen of the reigning Liberal party, Jens Rohde. Because the PM is quity busy at the moment, Jens Rohde has taken over a number of jobs from the PM. Including heckling the opposition parties. The opposition parties are at the present not very pleased with this because Jens Rhode is… Rather polemic in the way he talks of the opposition.
There’s been declared a political truce in Denmark because we don’t want to give the MFs in the Middle East more to nag on about. The problem is that the Social Democrats have decided: "Truce, shmooze, we will not lose madates because of this, we will natter on about the ifs and buts of every move made by the PM." To noone’s great surprise, stabbing the PM in the back lost them voters. Rohde, thinking fair is only fair, decided to have some fun of his own. Since the leaders of the Social Democrats are all women, young and rather fragile looking, Rohde decided to give it to her good:
Seriously, can anyone here imagine a future Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt handling this crisis? With Lotte Bundsgaard as her Foreign Minister and Mette Frederiksen as the Political Spokeswoman?
Now, this might seem a rather innocous statement if it, you know, weren’t true. So Helle Thorning-Schmidt, a woman scorned, replies:
I think this truce has been rather difficult to keep because of Jens Rohde. His criticisms have been harsh, harsher than is usual in Danish Politics. This man is a low-hanging missile on the loose. I don’t think he has been very fair, and I think the PM ought to reprimand Rohde.
The problem Thorning-Schmidt has here is that a) she is lying b) she practically told the PM to reprimand Rohde, an action not unlike a situation we have seen in international politics lately. So the PM decided to let go of the leash. Quoth Rohde:
With a twinkle in my eyes I can sincerely say that she has yet to examine my low-hanging missile, so I will take this criticism with the utmost calm.
Thorning-Schmidt goes ballistic (see the irony?):
I would seriously mind to have as the Political spokesman of my party a man who treats people shabbily.
Jens Rohde responds:
This interpretation the Social Democrats have that I was being obscene, must remain their own interpretation.
After all, it wasn’t I who initially brought into this debate my missile.
