The Green Party were once thought to be too 'flakey' for government. Their insistence on principled stands on issues that mattered to them meant that prior to the rainbow government, no one would consider them as coalition partners.They ran in the recent election on a series of principled stands, and their leader vowed not to enter government with Fianna Fail after the election.As a result, they garnered many votes from Fine Gael and Labour voters who were intent on seeing Fianna Fail removed from office.But after ten days of negotiations, during which they were mightily screwed by the Fianna Fail negotiating team, the Greens settled to go into government with them.What's worse is that they sold out every one of their principled stands in order to gain access to government. What's worse...