The Coalition Idea, Tom Mulcair, and the Great Joe Cocker

In my last post I wrote about how I would welcome the idea of a coalition to bring down the Harper regime. 

Which as usual, was greeted with the usual scepticism from some of my readers and friends. As if it came from Mars not Canada.

Then I saw that Tom Mulcair has said that he is at least open to the idea. 

The “C word” many tire of or avoid altogether during election campaigns doesn’t scare the federal NDP leader.


While keeping the option on the table for 2015, the leader won’t yet commit to it, keeping his focus on the ultimate prize.

Which is all I want, because if you don't at least talk about the idea it will always seem to come from another planet. 

Instead of being a legitimate political arrangement which is used all over the world, including these days in the British mother Parliament.

And then I saw that Joe Cocker had died. 

And this song seemed to bring it all together...



What a great song, what a great singer.

And what a great idea...



With a little help from my friends, the idea of a coalition will never die.

With a little help from my friends, the great Joe Cocker will live for ever...

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How About Those Liberal Democrats?

OMG. How much good news can I take in one day? 

First this story made me feel like I could fly.

Then this story blew me away.

Senior insiders with the federal Liberals and New Democrats have been holding secret talks about the possibility of merging their parties to form a new entity to take on the Conservatives, CBC News has learned

The new party would possibly be named the Liberal Democrats and there has been tentative talk about what a shared platform would look like and an understanding that a race would be required to choose a new leader.

But of course it makes so much sense. Why should the Cons hold us hostage and rape our country with thirty-one percent of the vote?

When we can unite and crush them with forty-three percent, and drive them from power FOREVER.

Oh I know. I'm sure the idea of a merger will prove too shocking for some on our side. The old guard, the bag men, the cheap partisans, the Con collaborators. The ones who smell of mothballs and formaldehyde.

And I think we should probably concentrate on forming a coalition first, to hone our ability to compromise. 

But I'm so glad some in both parties are talking about it. Because it is also an idea whose time WILL  come. 

And in a young country which sometimes appears so old and tired, I do believe that many Canadians... especially younger ones... are ready for something new and different. 

Liberal Democrats eh? I like it. 

Almost as much as Stephen Harper must hate it.











Can you imagine how that twisted monster must be feeling tonight?

First he tries to demonize the idea of a coalition and Canadians tell him to go screw himself.

Now he'll be waddling after the idea of a merger trying to screw it as well.

And looking as ridiculous as this poor little guy...



It's a separatist coalition !!!! It's a socialist coalition !!!!! It's a merger !!!!! It's a shoe !!!!! 

But just like nothing can stop a horny tortoise, nothing can stop an idea whose time has come.

After the long and depressing night of the soul, it's finally morning in Canada.

And EVERYTHING seems possible....

Are the Cons Planning to Shutdown Parliament?

He's already the most sinister and authoritarian Prime Minister in Canadian history. He has muzzled civil servants and members of Parliament.

But the Con Torture and Rape scandal is KILLING him.

The Copenhagen Climate Summit is making him look like a planet destroyer....and his Cons look like idiots.

So now he's planning to shutdown Parliament?

Rumours swirling around Ottawa suggest the Conservative government is thinking of shutting down Parliament until after the Olympics, killing some of its own bills but also ending the discussion of Afghan detainees that is nibbling away at Tory popularity.

The rumours suggest that Parliament would return in March, when the Games are over, with a new budget that could be used to provoke an election.

Shut it down until after what he hopes will be his Nuremberg moment at the winter Olympics.



















Gosh. Wouldn't it be great if when Harper strutted waddled in he was greeted with a loud chorus of boos, just like he was last week in Montreal?

In the meantime, I think the opposition can work with this one.

Who said Parliament had to sit in the House of Commons?

Who said we can't take it to the streets? Or find a million ways to embarrass those Cons.

Who said a coalition isn't popular?

The most popular plan is a formal agreement between the two parties to share power in a coalition government, if the opportunity arises. Two-in-five Canadians (42%) support this notion, including 64 per cent of Liberal voters and 70 per cent of NDP supporters

Could this be the start of a Canadian revolution that sweeps these Cons from power?

It may be just a dream.

But it couldn't come soon enough...

The Knives Come Out for Dion

Holy Caesar salad. Call me the soothsayer. I ran this picture MONTHS ago and now look what happened.

As a Liberal, I believe the first step for my party is to replace Stéphane Dion as leader with someone whose first job is to rebuild the Liberal Party, rather than leading a coalition with the NDP.

Now I'm not a Liberal supporter. I'm for the Anyone But Harper Party. And I consider John Manley a Con tool. And I don't like that bit about the coalition. How could every Liberal MP sign a declaration of support for the coalition and then abandon it? It would make them look like FOOLS.

But I'm afraid Stephane Dion does need to go, and the sooner the better. Because anything is better than this Medici-like intrigue.

The plan to get rid of Mr. Dion next Wednesday (just hours before the caucus Christmas party) may or may not be very advanced. It depends on whom you talk to, but there’s now almost unanimous agreement that his election failure and coalition fumbling are sufficient grounds to accelerate his leadership exit.

Gawd. If I went to a Liberal banquet these days I'd sit with my back to the wall and insist on a food taster.

Just like if I was in Count Iggy's castle I'd insist on leaving before midnight....
















But the fact is we need a strong Liberal leader to help build a strong Coalition for Change, which remains our best chance of getting rid of the fascist Con regime. So I don't care WHO wins as long as the Liberals get their act together.

I feel sorry for Dion. It must be brutal to be humiliated, then have your hopes raised that you might be Prime Minister after all. Only to have them smashed again by the Governor General.... and that wretched tape.

Especially since the tape wasn't his fault.

The grainy video was taped by one of Dion's closest aides, Mick Gzowski, son of late CBC icon Peter Gzowski, The Canadian Press reports. Insiders say it was recorded with a digital camera and an auto-focus button on the camera was broken, stuck in the locked position. As a result, the focus was on a bookcase behind Dion, rather than on the Liberal leader himself, leaving his face slightly fuzzy.

Peter Gzowski's son? A camera that didn't work? What a way to go.

But a cause is more important than any leader. The fight goes on. The Cons MUST be destroyed. Stephane Dion's work to help create a coalition may be his greatest contribution to Canada.

The best thing he can do now to help that cause is step down gracefully....and quickly.

Before they carry him out....