Sarkozy in Hot Seat as Election Nears - WSJ.com
As a French friend wrote in relation to needed welfare cutbacks and the French election,
"...The other priority should be cutting back the obscene amount of money spent by the state to make people believe it really works (limousines, jets, official trips, summits, dinners, useless departments, etc)... But it is exactly what they have been reluctant to do. When he was elected in 2007, Sarkozy was expected to be a kind of Margaret Thatcher, at least enforce his strong economic and social measures. On the contrary, he kept backing up at the first sign of a protest, he did not suppress what the left had started before he was elected, did not fulfill his promises, he hired ex socialists or left wing people (he even married one, by the way). Paradoxically, opinion polls show that a majority of French people wish a right oriented policy, but they are so fed up with the dwarf (one of Sarkozy's knicknames) and so eager to get rid of him, that they are ready to elect the socialist loser, even if they don't like him."
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