Wonder how many billion words have been blogged in the last 10 days about this attempted coup business. Here are some more, from Agriweek's backgrounder for Dec. 8:
A ***** is a *****. Her ministrations are available to anyone who pays for them. The Bloc Quebecois is the collective mother of all *****s. As for the NDP and Liberal johns, such is their consuming and uncontrollable lust that price is no object. For the *****, last week’s customer can get lost if a better payer comes along. No one has gone further at more risk to accommodate the Quebecois than the prime minister Harper, but now here are bigger and better johns.
Canadians alert enough now know what it is like to live in a country whose government is taken over by people not elected to run it. They should now see what sort has come to infest Canadian public life, what kind are paid from the public purse to be professional politicians. The intent of the voters in the October election could not have been more clear, given the limitations of a constitutional structure designed for two parties. What this NDP-Liberal-Bloc axis is doing is, if not technically illegal, utterly illegitimate and illicit. It sets not just a new low for chicanery and the opportunism of politicians but also dangerous precedents for the future.
The only person in Canada politically perverted enough to dream this up is our old friend Jean val Jean. With his bolshevik buddy Broadbent, he cooked it up and stuck it in the ears of the non-entities who are now to pull it off. This could just as easily have been done a year ago. It will be a disaster for them, but that and they are as nothing compared to the disaster for the country.
To the left-wing Harper-hating press this was nothing but a clever, perfectly-OK game. Liberal and NDP supporters in the media actually abetted and sanitized the subverting of the will of the voting people, putting the blame on Harper. Few grasped the real significance of it, how it evolved or what it means to the theory and practice of democracy in Canada. Fewer prominent figures or organizations were in any hurry to comment, a creditable exception being the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. This is the biggest political crisis since the FLQ and the only reason it is upon us is the delusional egotism of a handful of political hacks. This is no game. The public gets the government it deserves provided it votes it in. If a country gets a government that it has not voted for, the result can be reasonably called a putsch.
The whole thing could have been (and may yet be) defused by the Governor General. But this Governor General? Think Sarah Palin.
So here is the situation. The Liberal party received less support than in any prior Canadian election, ever, but it presumes that a midnight union with even bigger losers equals a mandate stronger than the Conservatives’, whose support increased. The Liberal leader was discredited by the voters and has resigned, before being ejected by his party, but now may be prime minister. Not a lame duck, a dead duck. How can Dion look in the mirror and possibly see a prime minister? By around May the Liberal party cabal will pick a successor, who according to the power-seizure plan could rule for years without facing the electors.
The NDP and the smirking, sneering Layton, who a few years ago lived in public-subsidized housing and a few weeks ago promised not to entertain any coalition because he would be prime minister, becomes co-prime-minister to the hapless, hysterical Dion. The unions have Layton in their pocket, Layton has the weakling Dion in his. Dion is trying to stuff the whole country into his pocket, and the treasonous Duceppe is helping him.
The positions of the NDP have only ever been supported by a leech-and-parasite fringe, but now it will be in the make-of-break position respecting the most important issues of public policy at the worst of all possible times for socialist experimentation. The real balance of power would be withy the Bloc, which exists solely for the purpose of destroying the Canadian federation.
Western Canada is out of the political loop for the duration. Half the country, the half that is its economic engine and the source of its real wealth, now will have next to no influence or credible representation at the federal level. There are just nine Liberal members from the west , and for a geographic balance they could all end up in the cabinet, exactly for the reason that they have so little popular support. It would be hard to find two qualified to sweep the floor. And, oh yes. The Decembrist conspirators, the plotters, may also get to stack the Senate, which has an unfortunate 19 vacancies.
If there had been, say, six Liberal members with the integrity to not want to be part of this, they could have made history by walking across the aisle. Or 11 could have decided to sit as independents. No such luck.
A ***** is a *****. Her ministrations are available to anyone who pays for them. The Bloc Quebecois is the collective mother of all *****s. As for the NDP and Liberal johns, such is their consuming and uncontrollable lust that price is no object. For the *****, last week’s customer can get lost if a better payer comes along. No one has gone further at more risk to accommodate the Quebecois than the prime minister Harper, but now here are bigger and better johns.
Canadians alert enough now know what it is like to live in a country whose government is taken over by people not elected to run it. They should now see what sort has come to infest Canadian public life, what kind are paid from the public purse to be professional politicians. The intent of the voters in the October election could not have been more clear, given the limitations of a constitutional structure designed for two parties. What this NDP-Liberal-Bloc axis is doing is, if not technically illegal, utterly illegitimate and illicit. It sets not just a new low for chicanery and the opportunism of politicians but also dangerous precedents for the future.
The only person in Canada politically perverted enough to dream this up is our old friend Jean val Jean. With his bolshevik buddy Broadbent, he cooked it up and stuck it in the ears of the non-entities who are now to pull it off. This could just as easily have been done a year ago. It will be a disaster for them, but that and they are as nothing compared to the disaster for the country.
To the left-wing Harper-hating press this was nothing but a clever, perfectly-OK game. Liberal and NDP supporters in the media actually abetted and sanitized the subverting of the will of the voting people, putting the blame on Harper. Few grasped the real significance of it, how it evolved or what it means to the theory and practice of democracy in Canada. Fewer prominent figures or organizations were in any hurry to comment, a creditable exception being the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. This is the biggest political crisis since the FLQ and the only reason it is upon us is the delusional egotism of a handful of political hacks. This is no game. The public gets the government it deserves provided it votes it in. If a country gets a government that it has not voted for, the result can be reasonably called a putsch.
The whole thing could have been (and may yet be) defused by the Governor General. But this Governor General? Think Sarah Palin.
So here is the situation. The Liberal party received less support than in any prior Canadian election, ever, but it presumes that a midnight union with even bigger losers equals a mandate stronger than the Conservatives’, whose support increased. The Liberal leader was discredited by the voters and has resigned, before being ejected by his party, but now may be prime minister. Not a lame duck, a dead duck. How can Dion look in the mirror and possibly see a prime minister? By around May the Liberal party cabal will pick a successor, who according to the power-seizure plan could rule for years without facing the electors.
The NDP and the smirking, sneering Layton, who a few years ago lived in public-subsidized housing and a few weeks ago promised not to entertain any coalition because he would be prime minister, becomes co-prime-minister to the hapless, hysterical Dion. The unions have Layton in their pocket, Layton has the weakling Dion in his. Dion is trying to stuff the whole country into his pocket, and the treasonous Duceppe is helping him.
The positions of the NDP have only ever been supported by a leech-and-parasite fringe, but now it will be in the make-of-break position respecting the most important issues of public policy at the worst of all possible times for socialist experimentation. The real balance of power would be withy the Bloc, which exists solely for the purpose of destroying the Canadian federation.
Western Canada is out of the political loop for the duration. Half the country, the half that is its economic engine and the source of its real wealth, now will have next to no influence or credible representation at the federal level. There are just nine Liberal members from the west , and for a geographic balance they could all end up in the cabinet, exactly for the reason that they have so little popular support. It would be hard to find two qualified to sweep the floor. And, oh yes. The Decembrist conspirators, the plotters, may also get to stack the Senate, which has an unfortunate 19 vacancies.
If there had been, say, six Liberal members with the integrity to not want to be part of this, they could have made history by walking across the aisle. Or 11 could have decided to sit as independents. No such luck.