Zapatero's Strategy

For the tenth time in fifteen months, Zapatero said, undeterred, the economic crisis has bottomed out. Desnortada inane opposition and has not been able to take her word and deploy to resign next month if unemployment continues to grow.

And is that both are more concerned with silly fireworks on Historical Memory, Garzón, the Constitutional Court, the statutes of autonomy and other issues perfectly dispensable. But Zapatero told him Inaki Gabilondo, a microphone apparently closed a few years ago: "To me what I want is to create tension."

It is your best recipe against the crisis. Too bad it does not worth for Europe that he has had to preside at the wrong time and sees how the Greek economy crumbles, the solidarity of the EU means waters and all politicians are more concerned about saving their own furniture-that is, gain elections, to leave the economic slump.

In this context, European citizens see how threatening the welfare state and begin to go out, first in Greece, then Portugal, and more to come-without calling into question a political class and inefficient because inbred some business leaders have become even richer at the expense of collective impoverishment.

Luckily for Zapatero, he has unearthed funeral Franco and other bugbears of our collective past to have entertained personal historical grudges instead of dealing with problems of the present. So with a little luck, run time and can get better with the next general election.