Collapsing in style

If you gotta go, you might as well go out with a bang, but the Topolánek cabinet risks collapsing because of a little hooky wooky in a jacuzzi. There are so many issues more worthy of a good coalition spat than the Morava-Tlustý scandal. How about the judicial abuse in the Čunek case, the nuke dispute, the radar steamroller, or the failure to shift more cargo traffic from roads to rail? Songwriter and retired bookie Michal Horáček told F1 radio that the sting operation by TV Nova and MFD was a waste of time and money if the goal was to show that politicians are capable of succumbing to temptation. Duh! If the investigative journalists wanted to do something useful, he said, they could turn their hidden cameras on the four construction companies winning all the overpriced road contracts. That, we add, would produce an explosion in Czech politics worthy of an over-the- top Hollywood action flick! [Czech Republic MF Dnes Fortuna bookmaker Jan Vlastimil nuclear power missile defense České dráhy Jiří]