Not sure what "tried and insulting" means in this case, but it might be my english. My point is that you blame the symptoms and refuse to realize the root cause.
Calling the EP "clown house" is also insulting and calling the EU bureaucracy outright incompetent is tabloid style simplification and I'm not sure what else I can compare it to.
Yes, it is easy to say: "they are not strong leaders", but they can't be strong leaders, but how they could be when they are dependent and have limited mandate?
