Do not Ballot, what we are seeing is a once in a multilifetime event and it is impossible to say what will happen. What is known is that it will not be business as usual.
We do not know if events are guided by forces behind the scene or if everyone is making it up as they go along. We know that those in power will do everything they can to favour certain people they owe favours to at the least, or outright control them at the most.
FF people have convinced themselves that Cowen is worried about them and
FG people think Kenny is worried about them. That is what I would call self-hynoysis.
Cowen did not address this issue in early 2008 because to do so might affect his chance of the big job. Then he hid the problem coming up to Lisbon 1. Cowen is worried about Cowen.
Kenny knows that the fortunes of
FG would dramatically improve if he stepped aside and put Brutin in charge.
FG would then ask for a majority on their own and get it. Instead he would rather a halfassed coalition not agreeing with each other as long as he is Taoiseach. Kenny is only worried about himself.
So Ireland is in a pickle