I still believe Germany will eventually make concessions to Greece to keep it in the euro area, but it is clearly determined to extract a price for its generosity. At the least, Berlin wants to force Tsipras and his team to give up most of their radical leftist ideas -- they might even want to drive them out of power in the process.…Recalls Jim DeMint's statement about President Obama and health care reform: "If we're able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo. It will break him."
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Leonid Bershidsky
Basically, 'cuz they gotta save face by shooting the messenger.
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