When the boys came out to play, Georgie Porgie ran away.

Short term George - The Political Demise of Mr Lee

After just 8 months as an elected TD in Dail Eireann,
former RTE economics editor George Lee resigned today.
27,000 people in this country gave him their No. 1 vote
27,000 people hoped he'd make a difference
he walked away
he couldn't hack it
Did you ever hear of the words probation? stamina? staying power? determination? reality check?

FG leader Enda Kenny apparently offered him a front bench seat to coax him into staying on.
Instead he resigned. I think most other TDs would have jumped at the chance of a front bench seat after 8 months
Somebody pointed out that he could have resigned from the Fine Gael party and still retained his seat in the Dail as an Independent TD - now why not? If he really meant business why not?He could have eschewed his stunning economical advice constantly in the Dail where he should have stayed if he really cared.
But I guess he couldn't hack it.
So for all the bullcrap being aired tonite about him beign so honest etc., methinks he is not being honest. He can't do committees. He can't listen or debate. He's not patient. He's a bad politician.

He, unlike most other politicians (except Arnold Schwarzenegger) was able to use his celebrity status to get votes. Mind you, Arnie was a body builder and an actor and George Lee was RTE's economics editor - neither of them "the guy who spreads the slurry" as Pat Kenny so arrogantly used as an example to compare super George to the non expert politician.

Who is still in politics?
Arnie or Georgie?
Dear Georgie a Schwarzeneger you are not

The following are just some words which describe the way I feel after hearing this news: Disappointed, disgusted, saddened, depressed, excited, interested, intrigued.

The following are just some words which come when I think about George Lee: fool, useless, self obssessed, myopic, egomaniac, eejit, arrogant. unrealistic, nerd, impatient, impetuous,




and tonight on Pat Kenny's Frontline show, George said he wasn't prepared to play the party games, 'I don't see how schmoozing in the bars will change the economic situation '.
Sorry, Georgie boy, you joined a party....which means mixing, working together, arguing, debating, not getting yoru own way - not barking orders in the RTE newsroom or having a team of people working for you as editor - media, especially RTE is just as 'institutionalised' as the political system. Your host Plank Kenny must have said the word institutionalised almost as many times as he says the word issue. Anyway after watching the news and Frontline, my original fury towards Mr Lee has somewhat evaporated and I tend to agree with Ivan Yates - that he's just an eejit.


Never mind all that claptrap about Lee being symbolic of the dysfunctional state of the Irish political system. C'mon he lasted 8 months! What did he think was going to happen in an opposition seat in that amount of time? Pat Kenny and himself kept yakking on about how institutionalised TDs become. Yada yada yada, what about RTE? Now there's an organisation that's clunking along just as slowly. For Chrissake we have had to listen to so much Charlie Bird (another institutionalised scaredy cat who's planning on packing in a big job) now we'll have to listen to fecking George Lee - if he gets that job back I might have to leave the country or put a hit out on him (and Charlie and Pat and Gaybo)