Biffo, Dermot et al - same stupid childish nonsense?

I suppose I shouldn't really be suprised at this stage but has anyone noticed that the genuinely pathetic and frankly embarrassing response of Biffo, D Ahern, D Calleary et al to the French game is typical of what we've been hearing for years. When it was patently obvious that the economy was about to hit the wall at 100 miles an hour, FF were busy telling us everything would be fine, soft landings, U-shaped recoveries etc. When the sh*t did hit the fan we're told NAMA won't cost us a penny, it will actually make a profit. They pretended, and still pretend to an extent, that we can get out of this hole without the most savage cuts when in our hearts we all know we are going to be rodgered in this and future budgets.
In recent weeks it seemed that the penny was beginning to drop with the Biffopotomous and his idiot cabal, serious talks of PS cuts and SW cuts but then came Wednesday night and 'that' goal and the boys revert to type.
Calling for a replay is understandable from giddy schoolboys, housewives and perhaps even from the FAI but everyone knows there are absolutely no grounds for any such appeal. None. Nada. Its a done deal. Unfortunate, certainly. Unfair, most definitiely. But that's life.
But how do our government respond? In typical irresponsible, idiotic, childish, and frankly embarrassing, fashion, they start bleating on the international media about the need for a replay. If Biffo had an ounce of wit, common sense or backbone he would tell it as it is and accept our fate with dignity. But that's just not his way - string the public along, build up false hopes, encourage the dumb and the foolish to believe the ordinary Joe can take on the vested interests and win, that ruling elites are even concerned about the rights of the small guy.
Yet again, Biffo doesn't miss the opportunity to treat us like complete idiots and in fairness, having voted them in three times in a row, in many ways he has a point. :-(