When it rains in Spain

It seems that while the British and the Spanish were busy not talking about sovereignty issues over Gibraltar 300 years in the making, a storm was brewing over a stolen limo. It seems the limo was used by German Health Minister Ulla Schmidt when she took the vehicle with her on a vacation to Alicante, Spain. The $132,400 Mercedes S-class sedan was stolen in wake of her driver's hotel room having been ransacked. She claimed the 500 euro ($1,000,000) cost for gasoline to and from Spain was the least expensive way for her driver to go, especially since she apparently flew (and boy were her arms tired). The German government has been busy defending Schmidt's actions, saying she did nothing wrong as she was also attending to official business while there. But the scandal could not have come at a worse time, with her party behind in the polls in the runup to the Sept. 27 elections. One thing is clear, she, like the Gibraltarans, is stuck between a rock and a hard place.