amiright?

and last time I checked he was then things aren't looking good for the PS.

hip popularity falls. And Hollande is the most unliked president we had. He gains only.....3 PERCENT OF FAVOR!!!!!

I'm in France almost once a week for work. The French Left is very much alive and kicking.

The fact that their current leadership is a bunch of morons doesn't mean the whole French Left is on the endangered species list.

By the way, we would do well to remember this--it doesn't apply to just one end of the spectrum.

Remember what we said about the Republicans in 2008.

And he has a theoretical majority in the assemblée as well.

But giving power to fonctionnaires never turns out well, and Holland is le fonctionnaire extraordinaire.

Give any large movement a raison d'être and some decent leadership, and they can make things happen.

They'll always have their raison d'être, but without decent leadership, they're a battleship without a rudder, and that's exactly how they're performing now. Hollande inspires about as much as an autistic garden slug. What did they expect?

Are you French, btw? Im am. Where do you live?

I am from Texas, but I now live in Allemagne

Ça ne m'empêche pas, par contre, de parler votre langue

Edited!!!!

Soit en allemand ou bien avec une traduction svp!!

OK, I THINK you wanted to say "Wo wohnen Sie? Ich habe 4 Jahre lang Deutsch in der Schule gelernt."

Mais en fin, ne vous cassez pas la tête à cause de ça.

Are the proposed tax cuts for business unpopular?

Is the left not representing working people?

Or is the opposite true?

What is going on?

I haven't been reading the French newspapers recently although I did for a while.

Please explain.

They have not succeeded (or even much tried) in defusing the explosive tension between immigrants and non-immigrants.

They have not improved the budget situation to the point where austerity can be taken off the table. They have organized parts of the Douane and Fisc (Customs and internal revenue) into autonomous terror brigades who go around harassing small businesses with special audits and levying fines, in some cases for laws that don't even exist, and threatening the shopkeepers with confiscation of their inventory if they protest. I know one guy who was about to be the victim of theft by a customs agent until he told them their whole visit was on video with sound. The guy returned what he had palmed.

They have not curbed either the power of les syndicats (sort of über-unions) to call massive disruptive strikes upon every whim, nor have they addressed the grievances of those unions that lead to the strikes.

Every leftist party in Europe CLAIMS to represent working people. Big deal. Republicans claim to love the American constitution, too. How far do you swallow THAT one?

It's worse in Belgium, by the way. There, there is a brigade that goes around accusing everyone of money laundering, confiscating their inventory, waiting a few years, and then when innocence has been "established," returns whatever portion of the seized goods they feel like. They keep the rest for themselves. This became "public (there is de facto press censorship in Belgium)" knowledge when these cops seized 15 kilos of gold from a precious metals dealer, waited 2 years, and then "found" he was innocent (like there was any evidence to begin with), and returned his 12 kilos of gold. When the guy protested they had seized 15 kilos, he was told tough shit--until one of the dirty cops had a fight with his girlfriend, who moved out and told another brigade of clean cops where in the dirty cop's apartment they could find the missing 3 kilos of gold.

It's not all crèpes and waffles, I'm afraid.

They haven't found a way to mess crèpes up--yet. Give them time.....

Not with that kind of talk.

As are most of the Social Democratic parties in Europe. Austerity Lite instead of hard core austerity,

the french citizenry is pretty smart.Except when they disagree with the neocons