As I've mentioned before, it's one of the enduring mysteries of the post Harper era.
Why does Rona Ambrose keep insisting she's the leader of the New/Nouveau Conservative Party?
When the talking points and the propaganda that pours out of Con headquarters seem so horribly familiar...
So I'm glad to see that even some in our Con media are asking the same question I ask myself.
Well today was going to be the day Stephen Harper finally emerged from the closet where he has been hiding for months. The day the Duffy trial finally ended.
But sadly for Great Feathered Leader it seems he's going to have to stay there a while lot longer. Or move to Paraguay.
Because while the trial judge acquitted Ol' Duff of all charges, he blasted the Harper PMO.
I realize that we are now in the heart of the Canadian summer, and the last thing most Canadians want to think about is politics.
But the PMO never sleeps, there are still rumours circulating that Stephen Harper is planning to call an election in the next few weeks.
Before all those Canadians he's trying to bribe, spend the $3 billion child care dollars he sent them.
And in that regard this may or may not be significant.
As I've been telling you for a while, Stephen Harper's PMO is not the mighty Death Machine it once was.
These days it's looking desperate and disorganized. Its election campaign is veering wildly in all directions. It's making a lot of dumb mistakes.
And there couldn't be a better example of that than what happened yesterday. When the fanatics in the PMO launched two new attack ads.
Only to have them go horribly wrong.
Stephen Harper's PMO is one of the most sinister organizations in Canada, and one of the most secretive.
No decent Canadian has ever been able to penetrate its murky darkness, or know exactly how it works. Or how its monstrous master controls his faithful fanatics.
But now all that is about to change, and for Harper and those fanatics it must be a real nightmare.
Because as Michael Harris writes, the Mike Duffy trial is about to blow their secret world wide open.
Well I can only imagine how grim the mood must be in Stephen Harper's monstrous PMO.
After so many of Great Leader's most fanatical followers were subpoenaed to take the stand at the Mike Duffy trial.
And no doubt their depraved master is trying to console them. Which can't be easy.
Not when he's shaking in his boots, or in his closet...
Even though, unlike so many of his little monsters, it looks like he himself won't have to testify.
Well I see Ezra Levant is keeping a low profile, and remaining unusually silent.
After being spanked by his bosses at Sun News, with a soft fluffy feather.
Even as critics call for Levant to make a personal apology for a monologue that included calling the late Pierre Trudeau a “slut,” the host of Sun News Network’s The Source declined to answer the Star’s questions when reached by email Tuesday morning, and again in person later in the afternoon as he was leaving the network’s downtown Toronto studios.
“My comments are that I have no comment,” said Levant, when repeatedly asked if he will apologize to Trudeau.
And in a column today Michael Den Tandt claims the reason Levant got off so lightly is because there are two Sun News Networks.
I've been warning for a while that the number of young right-wing fanatics in the PMO War Machine had reached dangerous levels.
And that with their master Stephen Harper so desperate, some of them would eventually take wing like the flying monkeys in The Wizard of Oz.
And sure enough they have.
And now they're out of control.
Well you might think that Stephen Harper and his PMO gang might have better things to worry about than the Liberal leader's visit to Edmonton.
Like the disastrous state of the Canadian economy which is only producing part-time jobs.
Or how they're going to explain why they failed to prevent this totally preventable catastrophe.
Or how they're going to dodge the beginning of the Mike Duffy trial on the same day that Parliament returns.
But no, as this memo from the PMO shows, they have only one thing on their minds.
The total destruction of Justin Trudeau.
No sooner had I finished my last post, about Stephen Harper's decision to approve the Northern Gateway pipeline, when I was struck by a sudden happy thought.
Could that be his final act? Could that be his final gift to Alberta? And could he be planning to resign, before construction begins, and the shit hits the fan?
So he can get the credit for the idea, and not be blamed for the bloodbath.
But sadly that moment of euphoria didn't last long eh?
Because along came the guy who wrote Harperland to puncture that happy thought.
It's a deeply disturbing image. Stephen Harper in his bunker surrounded by his shrinking inner circle.
The only ones he still trusts after having disposed of all his enemies, real or imagined.
Making wild plans to destroy Justin Trudeau AND the Chief Justice.
And nobody able to rein him in, because as I've warned before, this is a PMO like no other.
Well they're not pretty, but they are fanatics, they'll do anything for their deranged leader.
Dark and dirty things that have turned our country into a horror show.
But don't bother asking how much Stephen Harper pays his grubby PMO gang, his little monsters.
Because that's a state secret.
He is the only one charged in the Robo Con scandal.
Michael Sona, the former Con staffer who claims he is being set-up to conceal a much larger conspiracy.
A couple of days ago we finally found out the names of six Conservative Party workers, who the PMO has brought forward to claim that Sona told them he did it.
A publication ban has been lifted on the names of six witnesses who allegedly said then Conservative Party staffer Michael Sona bragged to them about arranging a misleading robocall in Canada's 2011 federal election.
Today we found out that at the time some of those witnesses claim that Sona was bragging about his exploits, he was apparently sunning himself on a beach in the Caribbean.
Uh oh. Call out the Fire Brigade or the Big Lie Brigade. There's more smoke pouring out of the PMO.
Remember when Mike Duffy accused the Harper gang of cooking up what he called a "monstrous fraud?"
Duffy also alleged that the prime minister’s office gave him a script to lie about where the money came from, claiming that he had taken out a loan.
“The PMO told me to say my wife and I took out a loan at the Royal Bank,” Duffy said.
“That line was written by the PMO to deceive Canadians as to the real source of the $90,000.”
And how Harper claimed that "deception" was the reason he threw him out of the Con caucus?
Well now that we've established that eh? Just how will Great Ugly Leader ever explain this one?
It's one of the scariest places in Canada eh? The dark heart of the Con conspiracy. The home of the Big Lie.
And now Paul Wells has given us a glimpse of the horror that lies within. And of the weird leader in his inner sanctum.
And although I'm sure that Wells didn't intend it that way, the picture that emerges is truly frightening.
Oh my Satanic Sherlock. This PMO mystery just keeps getting more and more entertaining, in a nightmarish sort of way.
Yesterday we found out that although the paper trail was lost, or consumed in the hellish fires humming shredders of the Con regime, Mike Duffy did visit the PMO as the Senate scandal was glowing red.
But the Cons won't tell us who Old Duff met with during the 50 minutes he was in that monstrous place. And today the opposition was demanding answers.
Golly. Last month I told you how the changes in the PMO meant that Boss Harper was preparing to declare war on his enemies.
Now here comes Scott Reid to back up my claim.
By comparing Great Desperate Leader to Sonny Corleone !!!!!
I suppose we should have seen it coming. The strange look in his eyes when he fired that rifle.
The way he kicked off his Great Escape Tour by attacking the opposition like a rabid walrus. While holding up what looked like a handcuff.
And now the Third Sign of the Con Apocalypse.
The unmistakable sign that Stephen Harper is preparing to go to WAR.
They don't dare admit it of course, but there's one thing everyone who has worked in the PMO would say if they could be sure of being accepted into the Witness Protection Program:
It's not easy working for Boss Harper.
