You could can see the strain in his face, he can't hide it anymore, even under all that pancake makeup.
He's still trying to pretend that those tanking oil prices won't affect his plans to try to buy the next election, or balance the budget.
Even though he recklessly blew the surplus before he even had one.
But it's just not working, and with every passing day he's sounding more and more delusional.
You think Stephen Harper might have learned his lesson. You think a tiny sliver of light might have penetrated even into his dark world.
You think he might have finally realized that his oily obsession is leading us to economic disaster.
Declining crude oil prices are taking a brutal toll on the Canadian stock market, as investors take a dim view of the country’s economic prospects in an era of cheap, plentiful energy.
But no, no he hasn't. He's sharpening his greasy fangs, and giving himself the power to jail pipeline protesters.
Well it was only a matter of time before somebody totalled up the damage from the plunging price of oil.
Added it to Stephen Harper's reckless decision to spend billions trying to buy votes.
And concluded that the Con regime's mighty surplus has just about vanished.
He was warned, but Stephen Harper wouldn't listen. Warned that he should not put so many economic eggs in one oily basket.
He was warned that the future would be green, or there would be no future. So it made no sense to turn us into a tarry petro state, and even less sense to torch the planet.
But he was a climate change denier and an oil pimp, so he muzzled his critics, and pressed on ahead in the name of Greater Alberta.
And now the oily basket is bouncing on the sidewalk, and the oily messiah just got dinged by reality.
