I haven't read or heard anything by Rex Murphy for so long, that I thought he was missing in action, or retired, or dead.
But no, the crusty old oil pimp is still going, still ranting and raving over at the National Post.
And he's just as ghastly as he ever was...
For years I have tried to avoid watching the CBC National on Thursdays so as to avoid the At Issue panel.
For it was always a Con clown show under Big Daddy Mansbridge, and judging from what I've seen so far, will remain that way under the very Con-friendly Rosemary Barton.
A horror show of dead pundits walking, the Rue Morgue of journalism. Hopelessly out of touch with the new generation. And still as Con as they come.
But at least there's one thing apparently gone from the National, that I won't miss at all.
Something small, but also big, and loud, and definitely very annoying.
You may remember Benjamin Perrin, the PMO lawyer who worked for Stephen Harper at the height of the Duffy Affair.
But who later turned against the Con regime declaring that it had lost the moral authority to govern.
Well now he's taking aim at one of that regimes most infamous members.
Canada's premiers have made more progress in the last few months than they made in the almost ten years Stephen Harper ruled this country.
And they do have good reason to celebrate.
But there is always one party pooper, and it would have to be Brad Wall.
The grubby little oil pimp from Saskatchewan, who spent much of that meeting complaining that Justin Trudeau wasn't there.
So he could tell him how much he hates the idea of a carbon tax.
It was thirty three degrees in Toronto today, and as usual when it gets that hot a smoggy haze covered the city.
A blanket of pollution caused by the six million people who live in the Greater Toronto Area, and all their cars.
But did you know that same amount of pollution is put out every day by this much smaller place in Canada?
For years Preston Manning has been able to maintain a thin veneer of respectability.
By posing as the slightly dotty elder statesman of the Reform rednecks of Alberta.
But ever since his Harperite cult was defeated in the last election, that image has started to fray along the edges.
Three weeks ago he accused Justin Trudeau of fuelling Western alienation.
And now he's gone one outrageous step further.
Well he's always been a member of the oil club.
The grubby oil pimp who led this country to the verge of economic disaster.
But now it's official.
Well it was a brave attempt. Get the Premiers together in one room to talk about climate change.
But when the meeting was over there was little to celebrate.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the provincial premiers emerged from their meeting in Vancouver to say they are working toward a national climate change plan that includes an agreement in principle for a carbon-pricing mechanism — although they did not offer specifics on how it would work.
And the main reason there wasn't was because Brad Wall, the oil pimp from Saskatchewan, led the charge to make sure there was nothing resembling a national carbon tax.
When most people think of climate change they probably think of images like this one.
A scorched earth, starving people, and wars over water.
But when I think of climate change I also think of this little killer.
By the way Rona Ambrose and the Con zombies have been clamouring for the Energy East pipeline to be built NOW, you might think that if it isn't we're all doomed.
Even though that's nonsense. And considering the state of the planet one might argue that the opposite is the case.
So I'm glad to see that Justin Trudeau is telling her ghastly oil pimps to stop playing politics or chill out.
If Rona Ambrose doesn't stop viewing her job as both interim Con Queen AND the new chief spokeswoman for Big Oil, sooner or later somebody is going to tell her she should go pump gas for them.
Because every Question Period, no matter what's happening in the country and the world, she leads off with some kind of oily question.
One day she's flogging the Energy East pipeline, the next day she's raving about a carbon tax.
And the problem for Rona and her Cons is that she isn't very good at it. Or good at anything.
In my last post I argued that the CBC should fire the Con clown Rex Murphy, for promoting the Energy East pipeline.
While being paid by Big Oil to give speeches glorifying their dubious achievements.
And for attacking Justin Trudeau, and acting like Rona Ambrose's spokesman, on the CBC's flagship news show The National.
Well now in the National Post, Murphy has taken his deranged campaign one step further.
As you know I really like this image of Justin Trudeau slowly but surely demolishing Stephen Harper's foul legacy.
And today he took another step in that direction.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his job is to look out for Canada's best interests and not act as a "cheerleader" for various pipeline projects as the previous Conservative government did.
And since we now know for sure that the National Energy Board can't be trusted to enforce safety or environmental regulations.
It couldn't have been a more jarring contrast. While negotiators in Paris worked desperately to put the finishing touches on a historic climate change deal.
And prepared to celebrate its successful conclusion.
Back in Toronto, the Con clown and climate change denier Rex Murphy was clearly not pleased.
Mounting his Petromedia Postmedia pulpit, to blow hot air out of every oily orifice.
As only he can...
As I told you yesterday, those of us who live in Central Canada are under attack by the wild eyed oil pimp Brad Wall.
Who says if we don't accept his West-East pipeline, he'll cut off our equalization payments and leave us freezing in the dark.
And although it's going to feel like forty degrees tomorrow we are worried.
Because it seems that nothing will stop him !!!
Oh great. Just what this broken bleeding country needs.
Another Con oil pimp like Brad Wall, the Premier of Saskatchewan.
Sweeping out of the West to declare war on Central Canada.
I hate to admit it, but it seems I was tragically wrong. Stephen Harper did play a major role at the G7 summit after all.
He took a reasonable proposal to fight climate change, before it changes the world beyond recognition.
And helped turn it into a plan which will almost certainly torch the planet.
Nothing could tell us more about the dilapidated state of the Con regime, than Stephen Harper's absurd attempt yesterday to crank up the Great Terrorist Menace.
For there he was at yet another staged photo-op, with his travelling "Protecting Canadians" sign, trying to make Canadians believe that our country is besieged by hordes of dangerous terrorists or tourists.
In yet another other desperate attempt to scare Canadians into voting for him, so he can turn this country into a police state.
When in fact, if you take a close look at his face, it's pretty clear that the most desperate and frightened person in Canada is Harper himself.
As I'm sure you know by now, I never believed what Cons like James Moore and Greg Rickford had to say about that oil spill in Vancouver's English Bay.
Especially when they and the Harper Coast Guard said that only about 3,000 litres of toxic bunker had leaked out of that freighter, and that all but six litres had been recovered.
And sure enough it turns out that estimate was too CONservative.
It couldn't have been a more monstrous or absurd sight.
A day after a ship leaked about 3,000 litres of bulk oil into Vancouver's beautiful English Bay,
And a few hours after the province's premier and the city's mayor blasted the slow federal response.
The monstrous Con beluga James Moore broke through the oily sheen to spout off at his critics.
