A few days ago I wrote a post defending Tom Mulcair from a Maclean's story that claimed that he once asked Stephen Harper for a chance to serve him. And only turned down the job because he wasn't offered enough money. Having watched Mulcair in the Quebec National Assembly long before he entered federal politics, something about that story didn't seem right. And sure enough it seems it was just a grotesque smear.
I don't know what is keeping Stephen Harper awake at night these days. But judging from his deathly appearance he isn't getting much sleep. And I bet there are a lot of things on his mind, that keep him tossing and turning in his bed. Or wandering around the grounds of 24 Sussex Drive dressed only in a housecoat. His biggest fear is probably the economy, which is threatening to envelop him like a shroud. But as Michael Harris points out, the biggest monkey on his back is probably still Mike Duffy.
Well as you probably know, I don't just question Stephen Harper's judgement, I question his mental state, and study it extensively. Because better safe than sorry eh? And in that regard, for a moment today, I thought that the shock of his faithful Dimitri's sudden departure had driven him over the edge.
Well I can only imagine him today, huddled in his bunker with his closest advisers. The shrinking band of PMO fanatics he still trusts. Lamenting the fate of his faithful Dimitri. While suggesting for public consumption, that he was the one who fired him.
OMG. When I heard the news at first I was stunned. And then I was shocked. And then I was FURIOUS. This wasn't how my new Harlequin HarleCon romance "Con Confidential" was supposed to end. It was supposed to be a torrid Con love story not a tacky Con SCANDAL !#@!!!! And then all I could think of was Dimitri, Dimitri, we hardly knew you.
Oh boy. I realize it's not easy to remain cheerful and optimistic in this dark Harperland. Not even in my little Hobbit Town where it's always Christmas. Not when this freezing winter seems to have gone on FOREVER And not when I can't even even tell my friends to cheer up, without risking getting an icy snowball in the back of the head. Ouch !#@!!!! But think of it this way eh? At least we know the answer to this three-year-old question...
I didn't have enough time to keep a close watch on the election campaign today eh? But I did manage to catch this surrealistic and sorry spectacle.
Where the Road Runner competed with Peter Mansbridge for the affection of Stephen Harper. Beep. Beep. Who was standing in the middle of a hockey rink posing as a hockey nerd. And sounding like a maniac.
Stephen Harper is challenging a key element of Canada’s parliamentary democracy, saying the ability of the opposition parties to defeat his minority government and be asked to govern themselves is open to “debate.”
Or a tyrant.
And sadly, even though the Road Runner looked like it was standing on Harper's helmet head. Beep Beep. No doubt to the horror of his Con fluffers, it was Mansbridge who stole his heart .
Because the only way he could have been any softer on Great Ugly Leader, short of giving him a full body massage, was if he'd plucked a feather out of the Road Runner's ass and fanned him with it.
But then I had to be fanned myself eh? When I read that Dimitri Soudas, Harper's beloved lap dog chihuahua was the Boss of Quebec.
They discuss “compensation” for Soudas if he can “deliver something” for them on the appointment process.
“What do you see him being able to do, Soudas?” says the voice identified as Accurso.
“He’s the boss of Quebec, the real boss of Quebec,” explains the voice identified as Poulin.
Although in this Cons On the Waterfront tape it's not clear whether Tony "Da Man" or "Das Boat" Accurso...
The appearance of political links to Accurso has become toxic in the province ever since reports first emerged of the streams of politicians and union officials who have been invited onto the businessman’s personal yacht and his great success securing lucrative government contracts.
Is talking about Dimitri... or Steve "Big Daddy" Harper...
But I think you get the idea eh? When all you hear is boss dis, boss dat, you know we've got a problem.
Just how many convicted felons, alleged fraud artists, hookers, religious fanatics, and assorted shady characters can you fit into the Harper PMO? Before somebody calls the police. Or in the case of Big Daddy...the King of Canada... the nearest maximum-security mental hospital.
Because I mean who does he think he is? Napoleon or Nero?
Oh boy. You know I think one of the reasons Jack Layton was able to win the support of so many young Quebecers, apart from all the other reasons I listed last night.
Was with a message summed up by this simple video...
Politics IS stalled, it's time that changed.
This hopeless wheel has been going around and around for far too long.
Oh.My.Goomba. I don't know how Harper's parrot chihuahua Dimitri Soudas managed to dodge the summons from the Ethics Committee.
But maybe they some higher authority could issue another one, and ask him to explain this latest scandal.
An investigation by Radio-Canada suggests that Dimitri Soudas, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s spokesman, tried to pressure board members of the Montreal Port Authority to name Robert Abdallah, a former director general at Montreal city hall, as its new president.
Former Tory cabinet minister Michael Fortier also confirmed to Radio-Canada that board members were approached by those claiming “Harper preferred Mr. Abdallah.”
Oh boy. Talk about Con the Waterfront eh?
Dimitri, Dimitri, you could have been a CONTENDAH.
And so soon after making a fool out of yourself. Again.
Back to Dimitri Soudas: "We've since reviewed the tape to confirm the mistake. We are updating our Coalition Watch."
But then he adds this line to buttress his point.
"The substance of the argument does not change: Mr. Ignatieff said today he will try to become PM even if he loses the election."
Which is only sorta true.
Oh boy. I wish I could update this picture of the Con mob.
But I give up eh?
There's just too many of them...
But don't worry. I will find a way to put up their wanted posters.
Oh. My. Goebbels. I can't decide which communique from the Con Ministry of Propaganda and Disinformation is more absurd.
Dimitri Soudas' gaseous emissions trying to explain why Christian Paradis isn't resigning.
In this case the staffer resigned therefore he's no longer an employee, therefore no longer works, therefore that's the responsibility that the minister is holding accountable. See staff are accountable to their ministers and ministers are accountable to parliament. Therefore Mr. Togneri in this case is accountable to his minister, correct?
Because surely that tortured explanation must have been delivered in this position.
Or this other Con flunkie trying to explain why the Prime Minister of the People aka Old Blue Sweater shouldn't be considered a tool of big business.
“Obviously we’ve been charting a course in some pretty unsteady times. With the priority being the economy, it is no surprise that the prime minister has met quite a few times, and predominantly with business and industry representatives. These are the people who are on the front lines of the economy.”
And no doubt blowing a fuse trying to explain how while the Cons were spending more than a billion dollars of our dough on the G20, they still found time to have their tummies scratched.
Both the CEO council and Suncor filed reports that, on the day of the B20 summit, they lobbied not only the prime minister, but several senior members of his cabinet: Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon, Defence Minister Peter MacKay, then transport minister John Baird, Trade Minister Peter Van Loan and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Peter Kent.
Golly. I give up. I just can't decide who sounds more ridiculous....or CORRUPT.
But isn't it nice to know that the next time the Cons attack those dastardly "elites," or even mention the word "transparency," we can laugh our asses off and pelt them with peanuts.
Isn't it nice to know Dimitri Soudas is STILL an idiot?
And isn't it fantastic to know who is REALLY running this country?
So all I need to know now is when can we arrest FIRE them?
Because this message might have been aimed at the Quebec bashing Cons at Maclean's...
Well I'm a bit late on this one...but I see that Dimitri Soudas has been appointed Con Minister of Propaganda and Disinformation. And I can't think of a better Con for the job. First he makes a fool of Great Ugly Leader: At the G8 leaders' summit in Italy last summer, Mr. Harper was forced to apologize for attacking Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff for something Mr. Ignatieff did not say. Mr. Harper had initially pounced on Mr. Ignatieff after Mr. Soudas gave him information that turned out to be incorrect.
But gets away with it because if you're a dumb hyper partisan Con, you can't blame the Liberals enough. Then he appears on the Evan Solomon show late last week and makes a complete idiot out of HIMSELF. By first saying this: "Minister Geurgis as a Minister of State for the Status of Women is doing a good job." One day before they whack banish her. Then saying this...with a straight face: "Accountability and transparency is something we take very seriously." Muahahahaha. And then wraps up his klown performance by blaming the Liberals, and earnestly insisting that Jaffy and his friends couldn't have pimped the PMO because: Evian, Evian, The Prime Minister's office is PADLOCKED. But of course he doesn't mention that it's definitely NOT padlocked for Christianist bigots who spend their time attacking gay and women's rights.
The Canada Family Action Coalition acknowledges it has held private meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper and members of the current government six times since 2008. The latest meeting with the PM took place March 11th.
Which just happens to be a few days before the Harper ReformCons announced they would not be funding abortions for poor women in developing countries. And who can forget what the porker homophobe Charles McVety likes to brag about ?
That he can get Stephen Harper on the phone ANYTIME he wants. Belch.Oink. And then of course, there's the way Dimitri treats the media:
Mr. Soudas, while serving under Sandra Buckler, the second director of communications Mr. Harper had after being elected prime minister, insisted that reporters who wished to ask Mr. Harper a question at a news conference in Ottawa or outside of the capital put their name on a list he controlled and from which he would select a questioner.
Like they were sheep... or stooges:
The Canadian Press is the only major organization that continues to refuse to put its reporters' names on a list in order to ask Mr. Harper a question.
And Lord Harper was a dictator. Yup. Dimitri is the man for the job alright. Just another yappy Con. And his master's little voice...
But forget about the chihuahua eh? It'll do what it's told to do.
