Politics Unpacked

Scrape scrape

You get sycophants all over, and there is no sycophant like a state sycophant sometimes.

A lot of the time, the President is not worried, but these sycophants get heart seizures over things that are supposed to be worrying the President.

How pathetic can you get?

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Catty indeed

One newspaper goes into apoplexy over a certain religious dignitary being given the sobriquet that has something to do with a ferocious jungle feline.

As far as nicknames go -- what's there in to go into such an apoplexy about? The same newspaper called the politician who bestowed this nickname on the man of the cloth a liz. As far as animal allusions go, there are many, put to many different uses, what?

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Watch your back, Mr. Prez

Why did Ranil meet President Bush at the White House, and the President meet Bush at a round table, asked somebody in known political circles.

Myee, somebody else said. But you should have heard what Prez Bush told Prez Mahinda about Ranil in that photograph that is doing the rounds. President Bush whispered in Mahinda's ear:

"Ranil thinks only he has access to me. Don't you believe a word of it. And watch your back. He might try to do what Chandrika did to him when he was with me."

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Low-yer

Guess who has been calling himself a lawyer.

A wire service reports quotes a familiar NGO wallah castigating everything Sri Lankan including the leadership.

Nothing new here, given his regularly biased record. But the man is no lawyer. A lawyer wouldn't have bungled his brief that much anyway.

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Anti-trust

We do not trust Tamilchelvam said somebody from a high place. This was in reference to the fact that Prabhakaran alone should do the talking or agree to do the talking.

So they trust Prabhakaran then? That's a new one on a lot of us...

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Turbanned

Manmohan Singh refused to meet the TNA delegation? Being a Sikh, he knows - - they say -- about failed and failing rebellions.....