"We will abolish the IMU only if we find the resources to do so" the deputy head of the PDL in the Senate, Gaetano Quagliariello, candidly assures "La Stampa". These are words of common sense, or rather the obvious, but which Quagliariello couldn't help but pronounce after the usual intemperate Sunday of the Knight on the home TV and in the living room of the compliant Barbara D'Urso. Silvio Berlusconi has never forgotten the ominous motto “Memento audere semper” but even for the most foolish of Italians perhaps there is a limit to gullibility.
How can one believe the Knight when he says that if he wins in the next elections he will eliminate the IMU, without remembering that the IMU is the poisoned fruit of the foolish abolition of the ICI promised in the last electoral campaign and launched in the first days by the government Berlusconi with the beautiful result of wasting every other resource to cut taxes on labor and bring the default closer? It is obvious that Quagliariello felt the need to cover his back and correct his shot a bit after the ex premier's outstretched leg surgery.
Quagliariello, as we know, is a nonchalant fellow who managed in just a few years to pass from the liberal left to the republican youth up to the Radical Party, where he even became deputy secretary in the company of another champion of political coherence like Eugenia Roccella, except an ultra of more obscurantist clericalism in the dramatic Englaro case on the occasion of which he delivered a fiery speech against euthanasia in the Senate, of which he is perhaps still ashamed today, at least for the truculent tones he used.
One question, however, arises spontaneously: did Quagliariello, who today shows off his common sense, ever know or, at least, meet Silvio Berlusconi? Otherwise we are faced with two characters in search of an author. If so, did he ever find the courage to say to his face what he claims today in "La Stampa"? Dear Senator, credibility is serious business. It cannot be used every other day. Otherwise don't be surprised if someone wonders if Quagliariello is there or is doing it.
