Has
ex-PM Yukio Hatoyama been doing anything but peeing inside the DPJ tent all
year or what? I also thought that Jun Azumi’s appointment as Minister of
Finance was a huge reach.
Fast
forward. On Sunday, Azumi, now the DPJ’s Acting Director-General—de facto No.2,
as DG Azuma Koshiishi, House of Councillors, is the new Mr. Irrelevant going
into the House of Representatives election—kicked serious Hatoyama butt with
the following statement on
national TV:
“Anyone
who wants to run as an official candidate from our party must keep our party’s
promises no matter who he is.”
And
that means the consumption tax hike and TPP, family ranch in Hokkaido or not.
My guess is that Hatoyama will fall into line… until the next time that the
bladdermouth springs a leak.
Way
to go in the meantime though, Azumi. Maybe Noda did know what he was doing
after all. (Of course there’s the matter of the other, less fortunate assignments
including Ms. Tanaka, whose antics had been well-documented beforehand…)
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