KMT Winded From Recall Effort

Back in June, the KMT was champing at the bit to call non-confidence votes aimed at bringing down cabinet after cabinet.  I said this at the time:

Maybe [the KMT] can get away with toppling one cabinet, maybe even two.  But voters aren't stupid, and the KMT can't keep doing that with impunity for the next two years.

As it turns out, even THAT appraisal of the KMT's public approval was optimistic.  Not even ONE cabinet has been toppled, and already voter disenchantment has already set in.  The KMT can read its internal polling, and is calling it quits...for now:

KMT spokesman Huang Yu-cheng added that following tumults brought by anti-corruption activities aimed at ousting the scandal-ridden President Chen Shui-bian and the vote on a motion to recall Chen in the Legislature, people need a breather.

...[the] KMT will let people rest and build up their strength for a while, Huang said.

Ignoring the loaded language, it's instructive to remember that something similar happened back in June.  The KMT failed in getting the president recalled; their chairman lost public approval, and the KMT backed off.  Now, they've declared another moratorium, since their chairman's dropping in the polls in the wake of the redshirts' disruption of Taiwan's National Day.

Count on history repeating itself.  They'll be back.

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[STOP Ma]

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I wish the DPP would emphasize more the inherent irrationality of the pan-blues decision-making. The following is an excerpt from The China Post:

"It is crucial to conduct impartial investigations so that innocent ones will not be wrongfully implicated but the guilty ones must not go unpunished, they [Soong and Ma] stressed.

They [Soong and Ma] condemned the ruling DPP for depriving people of the right to hold a national referendum on Chen's political fate by successively boycotting the presidential recall motion in the Legislative Yuan.”

The absolute stupidity in these contradictory statements is mind-blowing. Perhaps this aura of cognitive dissosance eminating from the pan-blues is what is turning rational Taiwanese citizens against them -- do ya think?!
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