First AA President and now an openly gay Icelandic PM? What is the world coming to? Note the timeline- conservatives fug everything up, liberals take over and conservatives claim you have to rule conservatively to fix things that ruling conservatively fugged up. Hmmm.
REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — Iceland is set to appoint the world's first openly gay woman as interim prime minister — a former flight attendant who rose through the political ranks to become a cabinet minister.
Johanna Sigurdardottir, the island nation's 66-year-old social affairs minister, is the pick of the Social Democratic Alliance Party to lead an interm government.
Iceland's conservative-led government failed Monday, after the country's banks collapsed in the fall under the weight of huge debts amassed during years of rapid economic growth. The country's currency has plummeted, while inflation and unemployment are soaring.
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But conservative critics say her leftist political leanings are not going to help fix the economy. "Johanna is a very good woman — but she likes public spending, she is a tax raiser," said Geir Haarde, who quit as prime minister Monday, partly for health reasons.
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