Bloodless Coup

Sharon's Happy Dance (Mofaz Variation)

Ariel Sharon must be doing the happy dance in his office (hard to picture, but...)

C'mon, how could I not link to a bit of Israeli political analysis containing that line? Yes, it's very hard to picture. But you've got to imagine that Sharon is jubilant on the news that Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz will be leaving Likud to join Sharon's new Kadima party. And of course Allison is right to point out that this deepens our awareness of what an astoundlingly bad politician Bibi Netanyahu can be. But then I've long marveled at his following given his long history of political blunders.