Clean political slate
In the same way as a wife-beater justifies their actions by saying “she was asking for it”, or an alcoholic pretends to themselves that “everyone does it”, Fine Gael have obviously abandoned their voters and convinced themselves that “we all” deserve this and that “we all” did something to trigger it, therefore “we all” deserve to be punished and pay the price.
The simple fact is that Noonan and FG are wrong. Clueless, delusional and wrong. It is an absolute disgrace that they are so out of touch with reality and refuse to protect the decent people who didn’t go mad, didn’t over-borrow and over-spend, and whose pockets they repeatedly pick while refusing to even vote against bankers’ pay packages.