Well I see that little Jimbo Flaherty has fallen off his mole hill for the very last time.
Or left Stephen's Harper's murky pond.
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has resigned.
He is the biggest fish to swim out of Prime Minister Harper's pond since then-Environment Minister, and de facto second in command in the Cabinet, Jim Prentice, left to make oodles of money in the banking business.
But not before rhyming off a short list of his accomplishments, and ignoring all his failures.
It looks as if the ghastly partnership of Stephen Harper and Jimbo Flaherty is heading for a messy breakup.
For after first appearing to agree with Flaherty that his income splitting plan was fatally flawed, he has now changed his mind.
The Conservative caucus appears to have put some woolly socks on Prime Minister Stephen Harper's cold feet on income splitting, convincing him to stick with a key campaign promise despite his finance minister's public reservations.
Leaving himself looking like a flip flopper, and poor little Jimbo gasping for air...
As we know too well, just about everything the Con regime would sell us is more propaganda than reality.
The Porky Economic Action ads that boast about a job grant that doesn't exist.
The Great War on Crime in a country where the crime rate has been falling for years,
But who knew Jimbo Flaherty and his Con artists would go so far as to create make believe families.
It had to be one of the most bizarre sights I have ever seen in Question Period. And yet another sign that the Con regime is running out of steam, and Stephen Harper is losing his marbles.
For there was Jimbo Flaherty, on the day after his budget, sitting like a wax figure, or a garden gnome, while Great Ugly Leader answered all the questions directed at his muzzled Finance Minister.
And it does look a lot like the income splitting question is splitting the Con regime.
I like to think that Jim Flaherty's recent illness has made him a better human being, because I'm a firm believer in the power of redemption.
And he has come a long way from the days when he was calling for the homeless to be jailed.
But unfortunately he's still a Con, he still works for Stephen Harper, and his latest budget is nothing more than the product of a snake oil salesman.
Well it must have been quite a shock eh? To return to freezing Ottawa after his sunny bloated junket through the Middle East.
And to have the cheers replaced by jeers. Or the sound of questions.
For surely only that can explain why after only a few minutes in the House of Commons today Stephen Harper was looking so shell shocked...
And sounding so DELUSIONAL.
Well as you know Stephen Harper isn't just running from the Senate scandal these days. And from Neil Young.
He's running from the burning wreckage of his disastrous economic record.
And so desperate is the situation, Great Economist Buffoon Leader has been reduced to begging Canadians to suggest any ideas about how he can create the Jobs of Tomorrow.
Because goodness knows he doesn't have a clue eh?
The other night I wrote that if the Stephen Harper and his hapless stooge Jimbo Flaherty wanted to run on their economic record, they should be my guests or be my CRIMINALS.
Because there is no other way to describe what those two Con artists have done to our country, by putting their crass politics before the needs of our economy.
They say he is holed up in his bunker at Harrington Lake surrounded only by his closest advisers.
The small band of PMO fanatics who never say no to anything he says, even when he's rolling on the floor biting the carpet.
Or in an alarming state of total DELUSION...
But of course even his faithful fluffers can't conceal the ugly reality. It wasn't a banner year, it was Stephen Harper's anus annus horribilis, and his situation has never been so desperate.
It was such a beautiful day, the first real day of Spring, that I spent hours pedalling around my magic island, out of touch with the rest of the world.
So it wasn't until I met the three four bears at the little vintage amusement park, that I heard the stunning news. Little Jimbo Flaherty was missing in action !!!!
Oh no. Remember how I said the other night that Jimbo Flaherty probably hated having to call his new budget Porky Action Plan 2013?
Because there couldn't be a worse way to sell ANYTHING.
Well forget that theory eh?
Because there was Jimbo yesterday getting a Porky Action sign engraved on his new shoes.
Well as you know today was St Patrick's Day, and no doubt wee little Jimbo Flaherty was running around looking for the pot of gold.
The one he lost when he cut the GST.
And probably wishing he didn't have to call his new budget Porky Action Plan 2013.
Because it's hard to imagine a worse way to sell a budget, than reminding Canadians of something that's driving them CRAAAAAZY !!!!
If you wanted to know where our economy is heading, or what the Cons are planning to do to Canada.
All you had to do was look at Jimbo Flaherty today, to know it's not going to be pretty.
And that the Day of Reckoning has finally arrived.
For there he was standing in front of a giant Porky Action Plan billboard, promising growth and jobs. Telling us the economy is shrinking, so what we need to do is kill even more jobs.
Golly. I don't know how I did it. Survived the Great Toronto Snowmageddon.
Because it was brutal eh?
Toronto has not seen a snowfall exceeding 15 centimetres since Dec. 19, 2008, said Environment Canada senior climatologist David Phillips.
Not the storm itself, which was only a Snowmageddon if you don't live in Alberta, or Saskatchewan, or Manitoba, or Quebec, or the Atlantic provinces, or anywhere in northern Canada.
No, the brutal part was watching Peter Mansbridge making it sound like the world was ending...
According to a recent poll only about 16 percent of Canadians now trust Stephen Harper and his insane Con clown posse.
And who can blame them eh? Because today was such a three-ring circus it really makes you wonder whether they are mentally fit to remain in office.
First Great Economist Leader rolled into Quebec City in his armoured limo clown car, and solemnly declared that the deficit would be slain before the next election.
Only to run over Jimbo Flaherty.
Even in a place as scary as Harperland, it was a frightening sight.
Jim Flaherty holding his head in his hands, delivering his budget update to the House of Commons Fredericton Chamber of Commerce.
Trying and failing to explain why despite the way he is slashing jobs all over the country, the deficit just keeps getting bigger.
Well I've got to hand it to that old Con man Jimbo Flaherty.
When he's not screaming at the opposition, or giving the Europeans the finger, or standing on a ladder massaging the buttocks of Big Business, he's always trying to pull a fast one eh?
Always trying to fool Canadians.
Sometimes I can't believe what the Cons have done to Canada. It's like a low budget horror movie eh?
A movie like Zombie Nightmare with Bela Lugosi Vic Toews. Where the zombies go after your brains, and your e-mails.
Or Der Con Blob, where a gelatinous mass of alien slime invades a peaceful country, eats every shred of decency in its path, and grosses us out beyond recognition.
For just look what those monstrous Cons were up to today.
Oh goody. Another episode of The Invasion of the Con Country Snatchers. And tonight it's one of the scariest ones ever !!!!
For as Jim Flaherty prepares to meet with business leaders, we find out what kind of Canada they would like us to live in.
Ever since I was a boy, trains have been my favourite way to travel.
I love gliding along, stretched out in a comfortable seat with plenty of leg room, reading a book, checking out the web, having a snack and a coffee.
Or just staring out of the big windows at the awesomeness of Canada. For there is no better way to see it.
And one of my fondest travel dreams is to be able to one day ride The Canadian all the way to Vancouver. If I can ever save up enough money to do that eh? And if Via Rail is still around.
