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Can Europeans be better NeoConservatives than Americans?  Yep, they’re gonna Party like its 1787!

The European council has just finished its deliberations “with complete success.”  What a contrast between the long faces of Bush, Paulson, Bernake and Co.. and the smiling faces of the representatives of Europe’s technorati.    Since the gloom and doom has pretty much spread itself around the world in equal measure, what strange variable has caused this burst of euphoria among Europe’s unelected leaders?

In the US of A, the economic contraction only facilitates the further entrenchment of the federal government as the arbiter of human destiny, through the Economic Stabilization and Recovery act of 2008.  But in Europe where a federal system is still nothing more than a gleam in its wannabe founder’s eyes, the economic crisis is creating the kind of precedent that Shay’s rebellion offered for the US federalists in 1787.  The gloating techno-elite is talking in only slightly veiled terms of a reinstatement of the Lisbon treaty, Europe’s equivalent of the document which, produced by the constitutional convention, became the constitution of the United States.

Someone lightheartedly suggests, “I am sure that President Sarkozy would like to become the first leader of Europe.”  Sarkozy makes no objection.

Somewhere in the North Atlantic an entire country is sinking.  Nobody pays any attention to the distress signals.  Sarkovsky continues with his Cartesian sang-froid.  ”We should be thinking about many things…how many currencies we should have in the world….”  Everything is up for grabs, the time of the great promulgations is at hand, a time to utter edicts which will decide the course of future generations.  The European Commission acting as a Committee of Public Safety…who’s head will stay on who’s head, and prevail to think the thoughts of the future human race…if we decide, indeed, to call it “the human race”?  

And, (this being in the thoughts, not the spoken councels, of the Eurocrats) as for that small country sinking in the North Atlantic.  That too can be made use of!  Even the American federal government could not come about without making examples of certain recalcitrants.  These Icelanders…how much they resemble South Carolina in the time of DeToqueville!  Let them become an Autonomous Republic of the Russian Federation!  That will teach anyone who refuses the terms of our Union!   And while the American incident was post facto to union, ours will be ex ante!  You see, we will outdo the Americans in the end!