Băsescu's bullhorn

I have two possible explanations for yesterday's speech by PM Victor Ponta, who, upon hearing that president Traian Băsescu was confirmed by the Constitutional Court as the representative of Romania for the European reunion in Brussels, said: "Unfortunately, that majority of the Constitutional Court which is controlled by Traian Băsescu did not do anything else but to make additions to the Constitution, which is not normal" and that, given the context of the situation and the conflict of the population with the representatives of the president, will still leave for Brussels, to attend the reunion of the European Council.

The first explanation would be that Victor Ponta spends too much time watching the shows of Mr. Gâdea, of Antena 3, and has gotten used to this kind of autism, where it doesn't matter what you say - as soon as you say it, it becomes true.

I admire Victor Ponta for adopting sophisticated philosophical principles so naturally - he must be a very, very young disciple of Hegel, embracing the conception of the German thinker, who considered that everything that exists and rational, and vice versa; from his point of view, him going to Brussels instead of Băsescu is the rational thing to do, which he will indeed do, and naturally, since he does it, it is rational.

His philosophy treatise may have just one problem - Ponta may find president Traian Băsescu sitting in his seat and be forced to stand behind him and look at his bald patch.

He won't even be able to smack the president for his ignorance when it comes to philosophy.

The second explanation would be that Victor Ponta and Traian Băsescu are in cahoots (a suspicion of mine which is getting higher and higher), working together on a play within a play, in order to fool the IMF, to whom we would be telling that the absurdity of the Romanian political environment makes it impossible to deal with the economic problems of the country, which is precisely what the PM was saying on Bloomberg.

Traian Băsescu seems to be cooperating discreetly - how else would one explain the absence of the "Hidroelectrica" issue from Monday's agenda of the Supreme Defense Council, an agenda which is decided by the president?!

Since Hidroelectrica has run out of water (isn't that what the word "insolvency" initially meant?), bankers are staring wide-eyed and mouths agape at the abyss they've begun slowly sinking into.

Perhaps the insolvency of Hidroelectrica poses less of a problem to national security than it does to the banking system.

Victor Ponta did it to castrate the "clever boys" in the energy industry, but that damning expression - "the clever boys" - has been invented by Traian Băsescu himself; the president and the Prime Minister are brothers in arms, the Hidroelectrica subject belongs to both.

Thus yesterday's speech made by Victor Ponta, about the Constitutional Court which "makes additions to the Constitution", has the banal role of undermining faith in democracy, a democracy which of course no one believes in any more, but at least until the speech of the Prime Minister we pretended we did.

The lie has been removed.

And all that's left is the nothing.