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Sigh. Here's Fitzpatrick claiming Lula is isolated when its really himself whose isolated by representing a largely paulista view point. The hostile media he refers to is SP. At the airport I bought the Estado of SP - quite hostile to lula indeed - and its a world apart from the journals I read in the NE.

Furthermore, its shameful Fitzpatrick attacks the Social Security Ministry, knowing full well that Lula's first big fight was reform of the ministry, creating a strike for two months or so. In the end reform was accomplished, far more than anything imaginable by Fitzpatrick's idol, FHC.

And in the end, that's why you see articles like this one. Lula's economic policy is like FHC's on steriods, and the PSDB has ran out of ideas because like a good politican, Lula has made PSDB's economic policy his policy.

All this mensalão talk - along with its obvious lack of hard evidence - is a reflection of the lack of ideas and charisma currently present in the PSDB, of which Fitzpatrick is simply a pumper. All attack, no ideas.

This is great....."All this mensalão talk - along with its obvious lack of hard evidence..." Hahahahaha..... Thanks dude, you made my day!
What, corruption, here in Brazil....? Never! Outrageous! Preposterous!
Must be a Brasilian....

OK smarty pants, lets see what you got.

My bet is the only thing you can show is your lack of intelligence, since you jumped from "All this mensalão talk - along with its obvious lack of hard evidence" - to there's no corruption in brasil.

Where there is proof, however, is tom delay and Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham. Seems like you don't read much though.

for the love of god, nearly everyone on the investigation committee is resigning because after all the evidence they found, and their recommendations, fall on deaf ears.

You mentioned evidence - what evidence? If you could read you might have noticed Fitzpatrick to this day still uses words 'alleged' . He relies on veja which is demonstratably pretty close to quoting the world weekly news. Yet this article does mention only three Congressmen have been removed - and jefferson was on his way out when he broke mensalão, trying to bring down as many possible with him, somewhat successfully.

IMHO, what's going on in Brazil, as Palocci and Direceu shows, is the country is so justifyably hyped on corruption the mere alegation at the highest levels are bringing people down, largely allowing the larger lower level corruption to continue with impunity.

Yet that's probably too simple and at the same time too complicated to believe.

"Here's Fitzpatrick claiming Lula is isolated when its really himself whose isolated by representing a largely paulista view point. The hostile media he refers to is SP. At the airport I bought the Estado of SP - quite hostile to lula indeed - and its a world apart from the journals I read in the NE. "

You mean "O Jornal da Banana"? Not surpising you'd find different views there..