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(… maybe not all, or not now …)

I started running again for a week. There is no time, the cold is not a great incentive, but the fact remains that since a Thirty Years' War lasts thirty years (even if many here have their own astronomy), to get to 86 years sufficiently lucid, I need to shake off a few pounds. It must also be said that a few days ago, after one of the many auditions, for the first time I really lost my temper with a person (fortunately only on the phone), which should never happen to a politician, not only because , as Machiavelli said, "men must be pampered or extinguished; because they take revenge on slight offenses, serious offenses they cannot: so that the offense that is done to man must be in such a way that he does not fear revenge" ( and therefore, once you understand that the conflict does not admit prisoners, it is better to avoid it until you are sure of winning it), but also because in Italy it is enough to have enough patience to wait for the Grand alternate and let him do it (remember? day ago …).

I have patience, but in short: better let off steam, better oxygenate …

Add the fact that since this summer my knee has hurt a little. I got hurt by practicing the sport that according to the doctors does not hurt (swimming), thus finding myself in the typical situation in which a doctor would tell you "rest a little, you will see that it will pass", which is the situation where the pains don't go away until I stop resting and stress the part again.

In fact, after three outings I am already better: orthopedics is not a science and Nature is a great doctor (even if every now and then she needs a hand).

While I was making the ascent of Villa Glori at a decidedly geriatric pace compared to those of three years ago, I met one of the most lovable and elegant parliamentary officials on the way down. We recognize each other, he greets me, and I show him what I was listening to on headphones: the audition above. Comment: " It sounds interesting! ". I answer: "I would say yes, and I would like to know why I am so bored in that same classroom. Maybe it will depend on the Presidency …".

Of course…

Because I too am on a Commission of Inquiry, which meets in the same room on the fourth floor of San Macuto. But in the Commission to which I belong, despite the fact that the auditors have made rather interesting revelations in various circumstances:

that have been echoed in the press , nothing moves, nothing moves. The "catwalk" Commission (as I call it) operates with the painful liturgy of the "round of questions" with an evasive final answer, rather than, like the David Rossi Commission, allowing a minimum of contradictory (which one would expect from a Commission that , according to what is stated in art. 4 of the institutive law that I helped to get approved, "proceeds with the investigations and examinations with the same powers and the same limitations as the judicial authority"), and therefore nothing is achieved, no it follows any specific trend, experts are not valued, in short: it is not investigated.

However, the point here is not (only) this: I wanted (above all) to point out, because here we love to be precise, that what I said in a previous post was not entirely correct. Already with the current regulation there are parliamentary commissions that provide for an American confrontation: it is the committees of inquiry that make the commissions of inquiry . When they work like this, the parliamentary commissions of inquiry can bring out truths that have remained hidden from the Grand alternate (or that he wanted to keep hidden, because we cannot preclude this possibility, especially in the presence of certain retaliatory behaviors ).

When they don't work like that, they just make you think that with everything there is to do you would be better off somewhere else …

(… but don't worry: sooner or later there will be a real Commission of Inquiry into the slaughter of our banking system, and if you understand how it works, you will also understand what you can do to help achieve this goal that the passage of time did not make it less necessary: ​​just wait another 16 months, or maybe even less …)


This is a machine translation of a post (in Italian) written by Alberto Bagnai and published on Goofynomics at the URL https://goofynomics.blogspot.com/2021/12/unaltra-commissione-e-possibile.html on Sun, 12 Dec 2021 21:49:00 +0000. Some rights reserved under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license.