Lordy. For a moment the other day I thought that I might have to change my poster for Jason Kenney's leadership campaign, fearing that he had finally gone over the deep end. And that the combination of his sagging personal popularity, his sinking leadership chances, and/or his painful chastity vows, had caused him to lose control of himself. For what else could explain this Twitter explosion?
I'm sorry to see that Liberals and the NDP are attacking each other, and that Bob Rae is calling Tom Mulcair a "mini-Harper."
“If there was any doubt in anyone’s mind in Canada, let me just say that the era of love and good feeling is clearly over inside the NDP. It’s a new regime,” he said.
“We’ve now moved to the world where anger apparently is better than love, arrogance is now better than humility and petulance is much stronger than respect.”
Because I'd rather see the opposition parties focus all their fire on the Cons. Mulcair is no Jack Layton, but no mini-Harper either.
And although I can understand why Rae is angry at the way the new leader is asserting himself, the truth is that thanks to the NDP leadership race, Rae has had the stage to himself for months. He has had trouble recognizing that the situation has changed.
Well I see the politicians may be on a spring break, but the sinister Con War Room, like death, or Great Ugly Leader.
Never takes a holiday...
Golly. I have to admit when I first saw that attack ad it struck fear into my heart. I was afraid I might have to plod through the Book of Stephen Harper's Moods and Disorders, to see which one of his multiple personalities was responsible for that one. And it's a big book eh?
It just didn't seem to make sense. Why would the Death Machine go after Bob Rae, the leader of the third party, THREE years from an election?
But then I realized it's only TEN days to the budget. This other new Con ad, is a mirror image of the other...
It's like a recurring nightmare. The ugly images, the leering voice. Stephane Dion is NOT a leader. Michael Ignatieff didn't come back for you. Jack Layton did it once he'll do it again.
And now comes the latest attack ad from the diseased brain of Stephen Harper: Thomas Mulcair is NOT a Canadian.
Thomas Mulcair, the Quebec MP and NDP leadership contender, carries two passports. One is Canadian, the other is French.
Or Jason Kenney threatens to become the next leader of the Conservative Party.
“For what it’s worth, if Jason Kenney wants to seek the leadership some day, nobody will come close to defeating him,” an Ontario Tory MP said. “He appeals to the party base, new Canadians love him, social conservatives know where he stands and he is a caucus favourite.”
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH !!!!!!
Or Stephen Harper says he doesn't need a vote in Parliament to keep Canadian troops in Afghanistan.
“There are lots of ways in which Parliament can hold government accountable,” Rae said, noting that not every decision to deploy troops has been voted on by MPs.
“This is not about extending anything. This is about changing something.”
Remember that, thanks to the miracle of modern technology, some zombie stories can be edited. (Click on the screen where it says start the experience)
But the only way to get rid of this foul zombie gang, is to organize, unite, defeat them, and send them back to the Con crypt they came from.
He has shut our Parliament down. He has debased it with his bully boy tactics. And now he is threatening to simply ignore it.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he doesn't need the approval of Parliament to deploy nearly 1,000 military trainers to Afghanistan for three years because the mission won't involve combat.
In a recent interview with Maclean's magazine, retired general Rick Hillier said: "You can come up with all kinds of schemes to hide away in camp and train people for the Afghan army, but they lack credibility.
"If you try to help train and develop the Afghan army … you are going to be in combat."
So why is he doing this? Answer: because he knows the Liberals are divided and he can play them like suckers.
Mr. Harper has been under intense pressure from Canada’s NATO allies, ahead of the alliance’s summit in Lisbon this month, to keep some kind of presence in Afghanistan. This obvious flip-flop should provide a stockpile of ammunition for the Opposition. It would, were it not for the fact that the Liberals have already indicated their support for a continued training mission.
So instead of respecting the supremacy of Parliament, or respecting the wishes of the Canadian people, the Liberals now find themselves siding with Harper and providing him with political cover.
How dumb can you be?
Enough is ENOUGH. If Canadian soldiers are going to spend three more years fighting and dying in Afghanistan, it requires a vote in Parliament. Period
And if Bob Rae thinks that selling his new book Exporting Democracy is more important than defending democracy at home.
“Whether there's a parliamentary resolution is not a matter of law (or even custom) but a choice of the government,” Mr. Rae said. “In the current circumstance I fully understand the government's decision.”
He should resign or complete his tortured political journey by joining the Cons. The shabby old stooge.
And of course, the same thing goes for Ignatieff himself. The blithering idiot.
If we allow Harper to get away with this ultimate gesture of contempt, we will be nothing more than a Banana Republic.
"My position is that if you're going to put troops into combat, into a war situation, I do think for the sake of legitimacy, I do think the government does require the support of Parliament," said Harper
"But when we're talking simply about technical or training missions, I think that is something the executive can do on its own."
With a President or Chief Executive instead of a Prime Minister.
Our troops deserve better. And so does our country.
The stakes have never been higher. If it takes an election to save democracy in Canada.
