Sky, what do you mean by giving in to Sakorzy? I can't remember what she did with the dwarf.
Being in strong opposition of atomic power I have seen Merkel as a tool before, at the time she was minister for the environment. Regardless of your stance towards atomic energy, as a minister she managed to screw up a screwed-up law even more - if someone remembers what a cluster**** our deposit laws were and still are today to a certain degree. She already showed her typical behaviour at this time: bowing to the industry, giving a damn about the people whom she is supposed to work for. Hell, even before, as minister for the youth, one could notice how naive and away from reality she was. Reading tip for the german-speakers: an interview with Angela from '94:
http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/spiege...-52691500.html 
Last week I heard the german comedian Volker Pispers talk about Merkel's solution to anything. When adressing any problem she always says: "We must all work together on this!" Extremely funny if you check out
any speeches from her: it is really true, always the same sentence with no substance.