Today's papers all highlight Prime Minister Fukuda Yasuo's chastizing Democratic Party leader Ozawa Ichirō for an abuse of his constitutional powers (kenryoku no ranyō) in opposing the nominations of Mutō Toshirō, Tanami Kōji and Watanabe Hiroshi as Governors or Vice Governor of the Bank of Japan.
Oh thank you, Prime Minister Fukuda, for admonishing Ozawa and rightly scourging him for the constitutionally specious path he has chosen!
Because we all remember your vigorous denuciations of Prime Minister Abe Shinzō, his Cabinet and the LDP/New Komeitō coalition when last year they shut down committee debate and public discussion of legislation and appointments, choosing instead to railroad every single bill introduced, reducing the opposition to hopeless gestures of despairing defiance.
We all remember your vociferous criticism of Abe and his minions, the way you stood in the doorway of the House of Representatives chambers yelling:
"No! No! This is not over! You will give these people a chance! There has to be a public debate! You will not just do whatever you want! This is an abuse of constitutional power!"
We are remember your intellectual courage then.
Don't we?
Later - Tobias Harris over at Observing Japan finds even more ridiculousness to become irate over.
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3 comments:
What is CRUCIAL here, is that the press does it's job and presents a variety of views on the issue, and generally thinks about things from the voter's perspective. I hope, oh how I hope, that we don't see editorial and "news story" writers lining up in unison to tell the DPJ to "be more responsible" and so on (i.e. do what they're told). It is, after all, they who need to be responsible.
If you have time a post on what the press, including the shuukanshi, are reporting would be wonderful, although I realize you probably don't take requests...
anonymous -
For starters, take a gander at this highly encouraging editorial from The Asahi Shimbun:
http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200804110063.html
As for other news outlets, I think a lot of them are far less likely to ride to Fukuda's rescue following his extremely embarrassing whine of self-pity during the back-and-forth with Ozawa.
anonymous -
For starters, take a gander at this highly encouraging editorial from The Asahi Shimbun:
http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200804110063.html
As for other news outlets, I think a lot of them are far less likely to ride to Fukuda's rescue following his extremely embarrassing whine of self-pity during the back-and-forth with Ozawa.
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