<strong>Topic:</strong> <a href="/topics/60-democracy" target="_blank">Democracy</a><br /><strong>Written By:</strong> <a href="/profiles/C.M. Burns" target="_blank">C.M. Burns</a><br />
<strong>Date: </strong> Thursday, May 01 at 09:23<br /><br />
Mexican President Felipe Calderon was not having a good day. His plan to arrive in New Orleans for the NAFTA Summit April 21-22 with a freshly minted law privatizing Mexico's oil industry in his pocket had been foiled by the opposition's takeover of congress.  Now after repeatedly  promising his U.S. backers that privatizing was a done deal, he was flying up the Gulf empty-handed.  Moreover, the Mexican Congress had waited until the last minute to grant him permission to travel to New Orleans.  He practically had to beg for the permission, an acute embarrassment to Calderon, more than half of whose compatriots do not think he was legitimately elected president.<br><a href="http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article/235930029-bad-jazz-in-new-orleans">read more »</a>

   

-- He practically had to beg for the permission, an acute embarrassment to Calderon, more than half of whose compatriots do not think he was legitimately elected president. --

Much in common with Dubya then. And considering that Harper is PM with a mere 36% of the 65% that bothered to vote, he is "governing" (some dispute as to whether that is what he is doing) with 23% approval.......I'd say that New orleans meeting is a real "Confederacy of Dunces" all right:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Confederacy_of_Dunces