Democracy takes a beating as treaty debate quality suffers

Franklin Delano Roosevelt helped America through its Great Depression with friendly ‘fireside’ chats.

Democracy takes a beating as treaty debate quality suffers

Sadly, Michael Noonan seems intent on having ‘fire and brimstone’ chats to get us through ours.

I, for one, resent the bull-in-a-China-shop approach we have been reduced to so early in the fiscal compact debate.

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