Today's "paper of record" shows a front page, above the fold photo of the Chancellor leaving a meeting where apparently things didn't go so well in her attempt to form a majority coalition government. Chancellor Merkel has some options, and one might be to call a new round of elections. Can you imagine living in a country that can float a national election just two months after the last one? We'd never get to the Super Bowl if that happened here.
It is already bad enough that a U.S. Senate race in Alabama with a December election date is getting so much national attention due to the backgrounds of the two candidates, with one in particular, Ray Moore, getting massive attention over inappropriate sexual allegations. Tis the season, Turn, Turn Turn.
Soccer's World Cup is every four years, but there is no guarantee a country like Germany will wait that long to have another election. Yikes!
Chancellor Merkel's party is apparently in a bit of do-do, despite her winning the chancellorship for the fourth straight year. That's almost like managing the Yankees. Sure you won, but what have you done for us lately. Ten years is a long time, Joe. Things are tough all around these days.
Pictured above, Chancellor Merkel is seen leaving a meeting with Germany's president Frank-Walter Steinmeier, on Monday in Berlin. Ms. Merkel looks well togged out in her signature jacket, in this case red, nicely matching her purse.
Anyone who is a fan of some of the contemporary series on cable networks might be aware of the show, 'Berlin Station.' Season One was devoted to an Edward Snowden-like character working for the CIA in the Berlin Station. This year's theme is the rise of the far-right parties in Germany and perhaps their embrace of manufacturing terrorism in order to make the general electorate fearful of foreigners, and thus making the message of the far-right more appealing.
Both season's have been good, without the silly use of computer brainiacs who help locate a suspect at the movement of the mouse, or fantastic stunts and heavy armor found in the Bourne Series of movies. They are thoughtful plots built around webs of deceit and deception.
As for Ms. Merkel and Ms. May, they lead on until they won't. Until then, we can still expect to see a good deal of them in the news as they attempt to guide their respective countries.
Who will win the title of 'World's Most...?" Stay tuned. As that great baseball oracle Yogi Berra told us, "it ain't over till it's over."
Just ask Joe.
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