Fogh for NATO?

[Liep]

Saber attacks?

A Balkan war veteran who developed mental problems attacked and hit two policemen in the head with a saber.

[bogh]

Is it really?  The Prime Minister of Denmark has some power, and can speak to all the leaders of Europe (except for the PM of the UK, the President of France and the Chancellor of Germany) as equals.  The Secretary General of NATO is a peon whose job is to try and get Europe to go along with US foreign policy.

The only reason I could see to make a move like that is if Denmark's about to go tits up, because then you don't need to deal with the problem.

Actually, I think it is very uncommon. Can't really think of an example of the top of my head and it's actually being touted as one the reasons for him being a strong contender for the post (he must really want it).

Fogh is over the hill, looking tired and sliding in the polls. He has had an extremely succesful run as PM and this would allow him to hand it over to his successor before all is lost and retire from Danish politics at his peak. Makes sense IMO.

[Liep]

This just in. The new Equality Jury has deemed it illegal for porno clubs to charge entrance fee for men but allow women and transvestites to enter freely.

We are truly equal in Denmark.

[bogh]

NATO causing cabinet commotion
The media and public tumult and uncertainty surrounding Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen's political future has seeped into the cabinet. Frustration over the insecurity surrounding Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen's political future has now reached the inner circle of the cabinet, with several ministers disturbed by the unresolved NATO issue and the Liberal Party's decline in the polls, according to Berlingske Tidende.

Fogh Rasmussen is currently embroiled in a race for the secretary-generalship of NATO. Although he has declined to publicly announce his candidacy, several other major NATO nations have pointed to him as the best candidate for the post.

Berlingske Tidende writes that if the previously so invulnerable Fogh Rasmussen does not get the job, he must prepare himself for a political battle at home. One senior minister says, among other things, that Fogh Rasmussen must get the government going again – with a new platform and a general reshuffle.

"If the prime minister chooses to remain, it will require him to develop a new domestic agenda very quickly. I don't feel that he is absent, but it will require something extraordinary if he is to convince the Danes that he is the prime minister again. This will probably mean a larger cabinet reshuffle and I think it will also require a new platform in order that he can take proper hold again," the unnamed minister is reported as saying.

Cabinet in dark
Another minister says that 'The Liberal Party is bleeding' and a senior Liberal Party source adds that the prime minister's value has dropped so much that the Social Democratic Leader Helle Thorning Schmidt could perhaps beat Fogh Rasmussen at the polls .

"He would not be able to win an election after this," the source says.

None of the cabinet members know of Fogh Rasmussen's plans, and none are prepared to be quoted by name. But the sources that Berlingske Tidende has spoken to are convinced that the Fogh Rasmussen era is drawing to a close. As a result, Liberal Finance Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen is preparing to take over in close partnership with his party colleague Employment Minister Claus Hjort Frederiksen.

Hjort Frederiksen is expected to become finance minister in a minor reshuffle and in all likelihood to be replaced by Jacob Jensen who is popular with Løkke Rasmussen according to several sources Berlingske Tidende has interviewed.

[Liep]

Who the hell is Jacob Jensen? And why would anyone ever give Hjort more TV time? That guy works way better behind the stage... in the shadows.

[bogh]

Who the hell is Jacob Jensen? And why would anyone ever give Hjort more TV time? That guy works way better behind the stage... in the shadows.

http://jacobjensen.venstre.dk/index.php?id=121

He looks like a clone of Christian Jensen - another VU boyscout.  :

[Liep]

Great. So he's straight out of college to uni, then straight to A.P. Møller and then an MP while still working part time. He's like Fogh-jugend.

[Liep]

"Øgede offentlige udgifter skal finansieres med skattestigninger, ligesom SF ønsker stop for privatisering og udlicitering. SF vil dermed styre udviklingen og kvaliteten i den offentlige service fra 'polit-bureauet' på Christiansborg uden at tjekke, om der lokalt skulle være en smartere måde eventuelt i privat regi, der kunne give borgerne en bedre service. Nej, den mulighed er simpelthen for farlig at overlade til den enkelte dansker, hvis SF skal have held med deres socialistiske omstyrtning af landet. "

Haha, yeah.. he's a keeper.

[bogh]

Fogh seems to love these young one dimensional liberal boyscouts.

Probably because he used to be one himself, before he sold out.

[schaksen]

Perhaps we should make a unified Denmark-thread, many things to discuss: gangwars, saber attacks and politics!

Or a denmark subforum

[katmai]

Perhaps we should make a unified Denmark-thread, many things to discuss: gangwars, saber attacks and politics!

Or a denmark subforum

Or you 3 could just send PM's back n forth :p

[schaksen]

Perhaps we should make a unified Denmark-thread, many things to discuss: gangwars, saber attacks and politics!

Or a denmark subforum

Or you 3 could just send PM's back n forth :p

It would beat an AK forum  :-\

[katmai]

It would beat an AK forum  :-\

And tonitrus and i talk about stuff in PM's, just like you silly danes should!  :

[Liep]

I love the wig schak, any particular occasion? And I count at least 7 Danes kat.

[Ed Anger]

Know this, I declare any Denmark thread open season for all hijacks.

Wabbit Season!