The newspapers, radio, TV and blogosphere will be full of comment on yesterday's budget, so Gombeen Nation will confine itself to a brief remark on the subject.Be afraid - be very afraid, people - of anyone that presents anything as "a call to patriotic action".
Hasn't Lenihan heard Samuel Johnson's famous quote that "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel"?
Entirely predictable: how McCreevy and Cowen led us into this mess
The Irish Times comprehensive guide to Budget 2009
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