According to the Constitution, the Defense Minister answers to the President. Whew, the President already has an answer!
President Yushchenko: Apparently, the goal is to have a government of empty seats...when everyone is an acting minister...and there’s one solo. I gave orders to the Prosecutor General...to have this issue reviewed publicly...because...it’s all the more often that the subject of fighting corruption is raised by those whose hats are burning.
Since when does she wear a hat?
You know she’s bad She’s bad You know it You know And the whole world has to answer right now right now Just to tell you once again Who’s bad
I want to call on you to support me, and I want to address everyone who hears us and who will learn about our convention. The day it gets into someone’s head to have a rerun election, we won’t go with it. We will hold a referendum on the creation of a Southeastern State — and that’s the answer to all questions.
— MP Raisa Bohatyryova, PRU, speaking at the Severodonetsk Convention, November 2004
Today the positive thing is that Ukraine — without haste and in talks with the European Union, with the Russian Federation, with the United States of America, and with the Security Council of the United Nations, taking into consideration the interests of both disputants — is trying, in this way, to find and define a solution that would, first and foremost, promote the national interests of Ukraine and the European community.
— Raisa Bohatyryova, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, addressing the issue of recognizing Kosova, March 2008
Isn’t she lovely? Isn’t it stabilnist we can believe in?
P.S. Here’s an Ocean’s 11 spoof that aptly illustrates Bohatyroyova’s transmogrification.
Yushchen’s 11 The enemies want to take away everything from him: his approval ratings, his power, and even his second term. But he doesn’t give up and calls his friends. The guys who won’t let his victory be stolen are: Bohatyryova, Yekhanurov, Yatsenyuk, Semenyuk, Baloha and his six NUNS defectors.
