acosta may have been trying to play the hero card, but i think he pulled a joker by mistake. either by luck or design, correa saddled him with a job that was impossible, i.e. writing a new constitution by july.

i don't think politicians get ahead anywhere by showing weakness, and today acosta showed some big-time weakness by resigning. correa may threaten to resign over and over and over, but he never actually does it. acosta does not have the charisma of president studmuffin, and we've already seen the first responses. officials are publicly saddened and disappointed by his acosta's action, and meanwhile they're telling him not to let the door hit him on the butt on his way out.

when acosta said his decision was "irreversible for the moment" i had a good laugh like otto, but i assumed it had lost something in the translation. i first thought it was one of those babelfish-type broken english translations, because no public official would make an admission like that: i want to be assembly president, and maybe i'll come back, but i don't know how to do my job right now.

it seems correa outmaneuvered his "friend" acosta, and should have a much better chance of getting the pro-mining legislation he wants. i have no doubt acosta still has presidential ambitions, but as they say in texas, he done peed in his chili. the people with money who really know what's going on (the stock market) seemed to agree today.