Ormai l'impero mediatico del Cavaliere travalica i confini della Patria e conquista anche le roccaforti a lui più ostili.
Nessun cenno alla miserevole offerta dei 50.000 dollars di Mr. O'BluffThe second question was how Silvio Berlusconi’s government would cope. Disasters can make or break politicians, as Rudy Giuliani and George Bush could both testify. Mr Berlusconi’s initial reaction was both vigorous and sure-footed. He cancelled a trip to Moscow, rushed to the area and toured it in a helicopter. A day later, he returned to announce the dispatch of 14,500 tents for the homeless. But then he made an ill-judged quip that those huddling in tent cities should think of themselves as being on a “weekend of camping”. He also declined offers of foreign help, insisting that Italians were a “proud people” and prosperous. True, yet the magnitude of the damage is daunting. And the government, which is burdened by a public debt that exceeds Italy’s annual GDP, is constrained over how much it can do.
Come dicevo due giorni fa Berlusconi ricostruirà l'Abruzzo perché è l'unico in grado di farlo.Past Italian governments did not pay for their bungling because they usually fell before its consequences became apparent. Mr Berlusconi and his ministers expect to be in office until 2013. This time they may well be held to account.
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