Life has been pretty good in the KMT recently: they’ve got a popular leader, won massively in the recent elections, and don’t seem to have a care in the world. In fact, one of their biggest worries is … the recent problems in the DPP:

Ma said that in order not to undermine the national image and the government’s normal operations, Chen and Lu should stop rampant infighting.

Ma stressed that as an opposition party, the Kuomintang is not glad to see such an undesirable development.” We hope them to sit down for talks and settle controversies, otherwise, it won’t be a boon to Taiwan.”

No sir. We’re not pissing ourselves with laughter and planning our 2008 victory celebrations, we’re much too mature and sincere in our love of Taiwan for that …

Presumably, if we can take Ma’s comments at face value, he is also not enjoying the internal rifts in the PFP either. With every PFP politician wondering when it will become an ‘everyone for themselves’ scramble to leave an imploding PFP, one of their legislators claimed that his own party was like ‘used toilet paper’. When challenged by James Soong on this, he tried to clarify things by saying:

Sun stressed that his comment about the PFP being “used as tissue paper” was an impulsive response to the media and he urged PFP members not to belittle themselves. After all, “the PFP plays a big part in reintegrating the KMT that Lee had torn apart,” said Sun.

Ah, the good old “When in doubt, blame Lee Teng-Hui” strategy. I must admit though, I’m struggling to understand how leaving the KMT en masse (at the same time as Lee) to form a breakaway political party can be classified as ‘reintegrating’ the KMT rather than ‘tearing it apart’.