And who could blame them for feeling like they've been sold a bill of goods voting for the 'moderate'?

Friedrich Merz was the centrist candidate. The Christian Democrat Union (CDU) leader who promised to do something about the border, immigration, and holding the line on the economy with the debt brake intact and expensive, insane Green policies eventually vanquished. He was the reasonable, establishment, safe choice for those Germans who couldn't quite bring themselves to vote for a 'far-right' party like Alice Weidel's Alternative for Germany (AfD), with all of its baggage. Even though the AfD platform might be appealing in what they were advocating, voting for them would be a bridge too far for many Germans. They just could not bring themselves to do it.

Merz's promises of change and stability where they were needed were comforting and within the familiar frame of their political spectrum. 

Ergo, that was for whom the lever was pulled. The Green party was repudiated and rejected by voters, Olaf Scholz's Socialist Democrats removed from power (SPD), and the AfD on track to become the second largest party in the Bundestag while still a pariah in terms of political power, for no one will play with them.

Less than 24 hours after the polls closed at the end of February, Merz reneged on his promise to close the borders. He pulled the Old Magoo on the number one issue for many of those who voted CDU - 'immigrants.'

Yesterday, his Foreign Minister went one further. 'Too bad, so sad,' Minister Baerbock said, 'These immigrants are going to keep coming. You Germans don't make enough babies to keep the country running.'

🇩🇪🇸🇾 “Germany is a country with not a very strong birth rate, so we need migrants … otherwise our country will not be running in the future anymore”
— German foreign minister Baerbock in Syria

So Germany actively looks for migrants now. Crazy pic.twitter.com/oJ0Wub4nzy

— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) March 24, 2025

Slammed that door shut, not on immigration, but on Germans who thought they might get their country back.

Baerbock is set to become UN General Assembly President in 2025/26, and yesterday, she was in Syria hobnobbing with locals. She's one of the Green loons, too.

Nice, huh?

Merz was also busy in the aftermath of the Trump-Zelensky dust-up. As part of the Europe Union's hurried 'emergency' conclave to authorize and raise defense funds in the wake of Trump's election and expectation that Europe would begin to carry its own weight for defense, as well as Ukraine's, Merz bought into EU President Ursula Von der Leyen's idea for countries with debt brakes to bypass them for defense spending.

His promise to defend constitutionally enshrined debt brake notwithstanding, Merz went to work gutting it with the lame duck Bundestag members he had, knowing full well that when the new parliament was seated - chockful of cranky AfD members - his plans wouldn't stand a chance in hell.

He pulled it off in the nick of time. The €500 billion package passed the upper chamber a couple of days ago.

...The Bundesrat supported the measure with a more than two-thirds majority on Friday, paving the way for significant reform of the country's borrowing rules.

The legislation will amend the country's constitutionally- enshrined fiscal rules allowing the government to massively boost military spending. It will also create a €500 billion special fund to finance infrastructure projects over the next twelve years.

The new legislature just got sworn in today.

The 21st German parliament is being sworn in today. Among the new faces in parliament will be plenty of Alternative for Germany lawmakers. So, what role will a greater AfD presence play? pic.twitter.com/zoab4aQMPQ

— DW Politics (@dw_politics) March 25, 2025

But the damage to get Merz his defense slush fund is already done, as the man made a deal with the losers - the Greens - to get it passed. And they had their own little bit of constitutional razzle dazzle to perform before the new kids hit the building to ruin everything. 

Thanks to the deal with Merz, Greens got to write their very own binding constitutional amendment, 'enshrining' Net Zero as a constitutional imperative.

Germany’s Greens party has written a “net zero” commitment into the country’s constitution, which legal experts say could be used in court to make governments enforce carbon emissions cuts.

“For the first time, our goal of climate neutrality by 2045 is included in the constitution,” said Matthias Miersch, a Bundestag member from the Social Democratic Party (SDP) on March 14. 

With a goal of net emissions by 2045 now written into Germany’s Constitution, one law professor warned that “green” activists could try to use the country’s Constitutional Court to force the new coalition government away from its election promises and pursue more green-friendly policies instead.

Now. About those Merz election promises again...  

This is hilarious. Germany decommissioned a nearly new, state-of-the-art coal power plant for the sake of net zero—torching $3 billion in the process. But the best part is that they couldn’t even get that right as the detonation failed. A perfect symbol of the state of Europe. https://t.co/DqLgQYINfW pic.twitter.com/kAvR57Uwz8

— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) March 24, 2025

They're 'all blowed up,' as a little Ebola used to say.

Unsurprisingly, so are German voter sentiments when you ask them, 'How's it going' in regards to the job new guys are doing so far.

A bold move by Germany’s prime minister-in-waiting Friedrich Merz to ease longstanding caps on government spending has won praise internationally but signs are emerging of a domestic political blowback.

...An INSA poll published on Sunday showed 73% of all voters and 44% of CDU/CSU supporters felt deceived. Support for the group fell one point to 27% while the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) gained one to 23%.

That left the margin between the two parties at just four points, half the gap one month ago when the election took place.

"The CDU/CSU has failed to deliver on its pre-election promises with the debt package," INSA head Hermann Binkert told Bild. "Some disappointed voters are turning to the AfD."

Merz is en fuego for a promise-breaking snek - less than 24 hours to open borders, only nine days to jettison the debt brake, and now the country is constitutionally committed to climate cult induced suicide.

And he is still only the 'chancellor-elect' who is hoping to form a government by Easter.

...The disagreements threaten to delay the formation of Germany’s coalition government amid already complicated talks, which involve 16 groups with 256 negotiators. After initially suggesting talks will be wrapped up by Easter, Merz has become less sure of that timeline. “Thoroughness comes before speed,” he said last week.

It's going to be interesting to see what Merz's got left to give away.

Beege LAGNIAPPE: Well, the first day for the new members is over, and the establishment held true to their 'anybody but AfD' form. 

You all are going to love this. 

This man is Gregor Gysi.

Today he served as the Senior President (the Alterspräsident) at the inaugural meeting of the twenty-first Bundestag – a role awarded to the parliamentary representative with the greatest seniority.

Since the nineteenth century, the Senior President was simply the oldest member of parliament, but in 2017 the cartel parties of Germany changed the rules, awarding the Senior Presidency instead to whomever has the most parliamentary experience. They did this to prevent the office of Senior President from accruing to anyone from Alternative für Deutschland.

According to the traditional, pre-2017 rules, the 84 year-old AfD representative Alexander Gauland would have acted as Senior President today...

...While Gauland’s membership in the AfD makes him unfit for the office of Senior President, Gysi’s democratic qualifications are nothing less than stellar. For example, Gysi is a member of Die Linke, or the Left Party – the rebranded successor of the Socialist Unity Party (SED) that once ruled the DDR. That already sounds very democratic, but there is more! Gysi was also a member of the SED, and he even became party chairman in December 1989, shortly before German reunification. As if that weren’t enough to establish Gysi’s democratic credibility, there are also the longstanding allegations that he informed on his fellow East Germans for the Stasi. He is basically a gigademocrat, this Gysi!

In his speech today, Gysi defended democracy in multifarious ways. For example, he praised the openly Communist politician Clara Zetkin, who served as Senior President in the Reichstag in 1932 and openly demanded the revolution of the proletariat. He also complained about the poor reputation of the DDR in modern Germany; the communist legacy, he said, is too often reduced to “the Stasi and the deaths at the wall,” whereas we tend to overlook the considerable progress that the DDR made in other areas, for example in achieving equality for women.

So the cordon sanitaire worked to deny the senior AfD member his rightful honor only to give it to a Stasi informer who waxed poetic over the golden days of communism in East Germany because, what? The trains ran on time, I guess.

Oh, this is going to end well.