Another Bush Ally Steps Down

Berlusconi lost the Italian election but kept clinging to power with his fingernails. The Italians finally pried him loose (from the San Francisco Chronicle):

As many Italians see it, he's out - at last. Right-wing, billionaire, media-mogul prime minister Silvio Berlusconi is out of office after five years - and three weeks after his left-leaning rival, Romani Prodi, was declared the winner in last month's parliamentary elections. Since then, as Italians watched with a combination of impatience and frustration, Berlusconi stubbornly had refused to acknowledge his defeat.

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The controversial, sometimes outrageous political leader who was known as "Il Cavaliere" ("The Horseman"), reportedly told his outgoing cabinet: "We completed our program; we were the best government of the republic. They'll be sorry we've gone."

Right wingers like Bush and Berlusconi cling to their delusions but, if given a chance, democracy eventually prevails. But sometimes, it takes work. Now that Berlusconi has stepped down, there are many of us that hope for an investigation of the Italian side of the Niger/Iraq forgery scandal.

Note: Blogger, despite being owned by Google, broke down again today. I was hoping to have a post up hours ago. The Information Age is turbulent at times.