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Merkel and the others couldn't _kick_ them out. However, should Greece default on their debt, nobody will lend them money anymore, and they can't print money by themselves, so they would have to leave the Eurozone.
That's the absurdity of the situation. Tsipras and his lovely rightwing coalition partner Kammenos are insulting the creditors and particularly Merkel, but at the same time they demand that THEY pay the Greek's grandiose welfare state extensions, rollback of tax increases, hiring of a few hundred thousand more state clerks...
Seriously, you can't make this up. "Greece won back their national pride, we will no longer have bloodsucking occupiers dictate austerity to us, crippling our economy and sucking our blood! So forfeit our debt and pay us reparations from 70 years in the past, or else!"
Frankly, most of Europe has simply given up on them. No matter how many reforms were agreed on in return for their first debt haircuts, most of them were simply ignored. There's still parts in Greece with 85% of taxi drivers collecting blind men's rent. Over 50% of all Greek still evade or completely withhold tax. Their national rail system has more 'employees' than customers, total. And and and. Even if you'd forfeit all their debts YET AGAIN, they would end up in massive debt again in no time. Corruption is widespread and there is no social stigma to it. Instead, people who try to be honest upright citizens are ridiculed.
I don't see that Syriza will be able to realize more than 10% of their election promises, simply because the rest of Europe won't be willing to pay for them. So I personally hope that they will leave the Eurozone by themselves, as soon as possible. Then they can proudly stand on their own feet again. And serve the rest of the Eurozone as a warning example, because it will reduce Greece to a third-world country.
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