If ever there was a pig at the trough in Canadian politics it has to be Sheila Copps. Low class too.

Liberals hold Convention, Police Investigate Missing Phone Booth.

"No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it."
Albert Einstein

It won't be long before they drag the Shawinigan Strangler onto the podium where he will tell them "dat da Canadiens isn't not believing dem, dat day needs to provide da proof dat day are da onlys to run da Canada" Martin will follow that tired old routine up with his air guitar tribute to Rub & Tug Jack, red condoms will be handed out, Strawneck will do her drunken table dance, then they will spend two hours congradulating each other on their new found direction.

If it ain't the blast-from-the-past Sheila Copps it will probably be Mike Crawley. He would be such a good fit for the Liberals. He used to head up a wind power company in Ontario, living off subsidies extorted from Ontario taxpayers. In others words a rent-seeker extraordinaire. You can't get more Liberal than that.

"Peer pressure" as a political force.

Morons.

expanding hate-propaganda laws to include gender hatred
~Wente

I’d almost like to see them get their way on that because, to put it simply, gay men are homos because they like men and lesbians are homos because they hate men.

Hardly anyone predicted that technology and globalization would have such dramatically disparate effects – enriching some people, while dislocating so many others.
How might society mitigate these flaws in capitalism in ways that are politically acceptable?
~Wente

The ‘dislocating’ didn’t happen because of flaws in capitalism.
It happened because of socialist unionization, socialist regulation, and taxation for socialist programs which forced capital to flee.
Even Paul Martin, Liberal Finance Minister and One-time Prime Minister, had over half of his Canadian Steamship Line vessels flagged with Liberian flags to avoid taxes, regulations, and unionization that his own Liberal party imposed on anything Canadian.

Chris Kukucha said prospects of even a modest revival in Alberta are slim.
“I do know that the federal Liberals have very limited hope for Alberta outside of Edmonton, and that’s a stretch,” he said, noting that young Albertans still bring up the Trudeau-era National Energy Program as an example of the party’s perceived antipathy toward Alberta.

I don’t know why the NDP did so well in so many Alberta ridings while the Liberals did so badly.
It seems few people remember that Trudeau had a minority government, that the NDP invented PETROCAN, and that the NDP should be held equally responsible with the Liberals for the National Energy Program.
Both the Liberals and the NDP, had they won any of the last 3 elections with a majority or as a minority supported by the other, would have implemented an NEPII in the name of the environment.

I listened to that video Robert. I'm not sure what it was about exactly but it was funny. I mean here you have some "vp of policy" for the Liberal party and she can't really give a straight answer on anything to softball questions about nothing. Answers like "well sometimes we need to be a melting pot and other times we don't" are exactly the kind of stuff that tells me this party is going nowhere. Woman you are preaching to liberals and being asked questions by a liberal and you skate around like you're Paul Martin ducking questions about the sponsorship scandal. If this is one of their policy people the future looks bright my friends.

My political "spidey senses" are telling me that the Libs are experimenting with the idea of another upcoming "coronation" a la academia -- this time it's the lowly proleterian student protestor Bob Rae, instead of the uppity Count Michael Ignatieff.

The indicator is the official voicebox of the Left -- the CBC -- which is developing a revisionist history about "Bob Rae as Canadian political martyr", specificially in reference to the CBC's breaking story yesterday that Rae was spied on by the RCMP back in the 1960's during his student activism years (http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/01/12/rae-rcmp-file.html).

Of course the CBC would never mention that Bob Rae was later chosen to be a member of SIRC (Security Intelligence Review Committee) -- the watchdog over our new modern civilian spy agency, CSIS. And in that capacity Rae had access -- WITHOUT RESTRICTION -- to Canada's Top Secret spy activities. SIRC reviews from 1997 to 2000 were in fact co-authored by Bob Rae -- complaints against CSIS and recommendations about how our spy agency should function were either accepted or rejected with Rae's personal approval during that period.

Given his past radical history (including NDP public support for practically every Communist revolutionary org during the Cold War, not to mention extremists in the Middle East such as the PLO etc.), how Bob Rae could ever be entrusted with our most sensitive State secrets is beyond me. But it should be interesting to see how the CBC continues to spin his "proletarian" past re: our nasty RCMP spies, especially since Rae later literally "worked for the man" himself: Security Intelligence Review Committee.

(P.S.: Check out the SIRC reviews when Bob Rae worked for the man -- interesting to note how many people with past extremist connections were allowed into Canada or given security clearance in classified positions because SIRC determined that they apparently "did not pose a threat to the security of Canada", 1997-2000. The following year we had 9/11, followed by the Khadr family, the L.A. bomber, Toronto 18, etc., etc., and the rest is history).

Speaking of pigs at the trough, the lieberals need a female leader so I support Hedy Fry or young turdeau.

We're the third party now?

Fuddle duddle.

No doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

".....pillars of strength in Western Canada". Funniest headline I've ever read. I hope someone remembers it so that it can be engraved on the Liberals western tombstone. And that can be done when the voters in Goodale's riding in Regina wake up and give him the boot.

Wente and Adler - top notch pathologists, examining the entrails of the cadaver known as the Liberal Party of Canada. "Sew 'em up - no sign of life in this corpse". lol

I'm surprised Hope and Change wasn't mentioned.

Re the Shiny Happy People vid .... This puts a whole new meaning to Dorks with Musical Instruments. The babe in the red outfit was pretty hot though. But really, it was like Sesame Street for severely retarded adults.

Re the main topic ... Let's renew the Liberal Party with two of the oldest left wing farts available ... Sheila Copps and Bob Rae.

This puts a Zombie spin on the natural governing party which will attract a handful of tattooed freaks and some Goth hold-outs. If ever there was a 'walking dead' it's with those two throw backs.

I am sooooo happy that the Liberal Party is soooooo stupid.

Why is SDA even giving this "press" time for crissakes?

"Shiny Happy People" about sums up the Liberal and the liberal mentality.

The only areas in western Canada where the Liberals have any traction is in the enclaves of the provincial capitals where the bureaucrats live and in the entitlement city of Vancouver.

When I think of these two as a couple I cannot help but think of Peg and Al Bundy. Married with Children was a low class comedy as well.

"Nothing is more important than integrity. Integrity of the individual. Integrity of government. That's why I am going to change the way government works. This is not a slogan, its a reality. Were are going to change the way Ottawa works. And we're going to do it come HELL or HIGHWATER."

PM Paul Martin, speech March 17, 2004 Quebec City.

So it appears that the Road to Renewal has become the Road to Perdition...as a starting point they may want to work on the integrity bit as that seems to have gotten them into a peck of trouble.

Well they can't say they didn't ask for it...

Cheers

Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief

1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”

Relativism and doublespeak have resulted in there being no high ground for the Liberals to claim. Harper has claimed and pre-empted all the level ground. So the Liberals are left scrambling for any slippery slope.

If the Liberals are going to pull Sheila out of the embalming fluid, I demand that we get back John Crosbie. He could be Minister of Really Old People. Good lines like "Drug profits, Sheila?"

I've been over at the Globe and CBC reading a few of their stories and the comments.
The LPC is not faring well. They have a long uphill trek to get even close to becoming a legitimate threat to Canada. They still have the media in their pocket,but their people are not happy. Copps and Rae will not help at all.
This gay divorcee fiasco is not helping either. People are seeing it as more of the same old,same old.Rae's now trying to stick a race card into the issue. That will not work either.
It's almost sad,but not to me.

Hey, who needs another liberal party? There is one governing now in Ottawa: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/justice-minister-declares-all-same-sex-marriages-legal-and-valid/article2301691/?utm_medium=Feeds%3A%20RSS%2FAtom&utm_source=Home&utm_content=2301691
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wallyj
"This gay divorcee fiasco is not helping either."

Does anyone other than the media worry that people who came to Canada to get married can't get a divorce back home because back home doesn't recognize their marriage? And they can't get a divorce in Canada because they are not Canadian residents. Sucks to be gay.

The reason the dippers did so well is an overstatement. The area that they won is what can be best described as hippy ville. With the U of A right in the middle. This is the summit of their political rising in Alberta.

I always wondered. Do Liberals hand out paper bags at their meetings?

James et al:

I found that video quite by accident. It was fairly recent so I decided to reference it in conjunction with the linked articles.

I do not at all besmirch the genuineness of the two Liberals being interviewed but their talking points are so emblematic of the problem facing their party today. They're only comfortable roaming in a world of generalities.

What hasn't yet sunk in for this pair, and most all Liberals I'd suggest, is that the Conservatives have outflanked them on most all "liberal" positions. If I'm not mistaken, MP James Moore was instrumental in getting the Tories much more involved & entrenched in the so-called minority communities in Canada's big cities. The Liberals, on the other hand, absolutely took this support for granted and assumed that their long-standing narrative that "Conservatives hate non-white people" would keep working for another millennium. News Flash: It hasn't! That's a big reason why the Conservatives were able to make such significant progress in ridings in the likes of Toronto & Vancouver.

Getting back to that pair, if they were ever forced to talk specifics about their policies, they'd quickly find that most Canadians don't support them. Be it Universal Daycare or Ultra-Green policies, they're failures and Stéphane Dion dramatically proved that.

However, Conservatives and conservatives should not take anything for granted, for no political party in a democracy is likely to last forever but Harper's slow, gentle approach to moving the country's agenda slightly to the right has proven to be a winner in Canada's elections.

Liberals love fest...er love shack?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8NhJNpQlsY

And yet, here is CTV Newsnet broadcasting live, their heroes of the Liberano Party, starring Dalton McLiar.

If there is any doubt about CTV, it is erased.

CTV, ALL Liberal, ALL the time

Christ on a cracker!

What are these guys smoking?

Self delusion on steroids!

Libs genuinely believe that reality is what they say it is.

Bob Rae's da man to continue the tradition. Stick around long enough to outlast the others. worked for that guy from shawinigan.

Who really cares?

Now they are trotting out Count Iggula!

CTV and Liberals. Stuck on Stupid

Sorry Robert. My attention span on the second-last link was only about five seconds. Somebody will have to tell me what the ick factor was all about, but chances are I won't be interested in hearing that either. I am 100% convinced the Liberals are totally incapable of figuring out why they lost and lost so badly. After all, do they not have a divine right to rule? Is there not enough cake for we plebians to consume?

Remember this fellow?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC28H_oLr04

It just occurred to me, who, pray tell, is the CBC going to pander to if the Liberals are history? A split second after that occurred to me I fell off my chair laughing. Them and all the other leftie media organizations in the Annex district and elsewhere along the St. Lawrence are going to be in a big panic. This is going to be a gooood weekend!!!!

BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Kady must have stepped on someone's toes if she was assigned to report on the liberal party's rotting carcass...

A little nip and tuck for Sheila, some little blue pills for Boob Rae to revive some of that tired old socialist dogma and a stop at 787 Dundas for a stroke of inspiration.

"Road to Renewal" or Everything that's old is old again.

I couldn't be bothered watching the vid. It's the same old,same old. If bob rae is the answer what in hell was the question?
As for AB, with a joke lark progressive now in charge if there ever was a case to be made to change out the government it is now.
40 years of the same gov't is not good for any democracy. AB has moved way left. It ceased being Conservative when lougheed took over. It's time,get rid of the peecees.

The title should read 'road to hell'. When Kady O'Malley is more aware than you are...oh dear.

Robert, "but Harper's slow, gentle approach to moving the country's agenda slightly to the right has proven to be a winner in Canada's elections."

I know, but after 44 years of seeing and feeling one piece of socialist policy after another foisted on this country it is hard to accept the "slow, gentle approach", especially for those of us that are getting a little long in the tooth. However I do realize that, like a large ship, the course change of a nation has to be slower or risk an upset.

I want to throw up when I hear those dustbin of history Liberals speak and try to resurrect Trudeau's five leap forward.

I always wondered. Do Liberals hand out paper bags at their meetings?

For what? To cover's one head, like the Toronto Maple Leafs 'fans' used to do? Or as barf bags?

Ken, I agree with you completely: frustrating!

But Harper knew long ago that the bulk of the MSM is his absolute enemy (h/t for the Republicans btw) so he understood that the only way to turn the ship around was ever so slowly.

The next federal election is going to be most interesting. First off, I hope the Conservatives don't lose their majority. But I'm even more intrigued to see what happens in terms of the Liberal and NDP seat counts.

Abolishing the monarchy? Sounds like somebody wants to pander to the closet separatists/fair weather federalists in Quebec.

Shall we call it the pasta convention.
Just throw some at the wall and see what sticks.
Its deja vu all over again.

The next federal election is going to be most interesting. First off, I hope the Conservatives don't lose their majority. But I'm even more intrigued to see what happens in terms of the Liberal and NDP seat counts. Agreed! The next federal election will be the most important election for the remainder of my life. I pray the CPC will get a majority again.

When you think if it...just how GREAT the majority was when you consider that the CPC had to fight the other parties AND the bloody media. Some feat!

The Liberals are no more than "rat mucus." (To quote Dave Barry's recent item.) ☺

R.I.P. Liberals!

Piss on them.

When I saw Iggy at the podium, I nearly died laughing! What is he telling them--really. "Watch this guys, this is how you lose an election, this is how you destroy your party."

When Ford has sagging sales, they don`t invite Malcolm Bricklin to the luncheon.

It doesn't really matter what the Liberals do for the next couple of years. The fact is, if the Conservatives screw up badly, the Liberals will have a shot at forming the next government. Even if they somehow pick Kim Justin-il as leader, and still haven't repaid the Adscam loot as promised.

Remember that in the 1990s the Conservatives were pronounced dead more often than Kenny McCormick. Yet here they are with a majority today. If they mess up, there is a strong enough chance that the Liberals will be able to do the same thing. Don't say I didn't warn you!

Tweet from Stephen Taylor: "I've never been in a room with so many people who think they're going to be Prime Minister one day"

Then it would be distinguished only by being the biggest meeting of Liberals you've ever been to. They're pretty much all like that. Channeling Canada's answer to Machiavelli, the late, repulsive Dalton Camp.

(Robert W.: “If I'm not mistaken, MP James Moore was instrumental in getting the Tories much more involved & entrenched in the so-called minority communities in Canada's big cities.”

With respect, Robert, I believe you are mistaken. It’s the estimable Jason Kenney who’s been heavily involved, non stop for years, with our ethnic communities. If I'm wrong, sorry.)

Maybe starting the convention on Friday the 13th is an unintended metaphor?

All Liberals should read two books-J.S. Mill's On Liberty, and Smith's The Wealth of Nations (condensed version would do fine).

Then, with a little bit of analytical thought, they might figure out where the political opportunity is in this country.

I believe lookout is right.

Lookout, I stand corrected! I knew it was someone starting with the letters "Ja" . . . :-)

I just found this which supports your assertion.

Ken and Robert, thanks. I'm a much greater fan of Minister Kenney than I am of the CBC-pandering James Moore! Credit where credit's due: a very good thing.

Cheers!

You're right, lookout. Jason Kenney's the man.

In fact, Jason Kenney's been so successful in bringing immigrants over to the CPC -- most of whose values, let's face it, are far more conservative than those of the Liberal Party which brought them to Canada for the votes -- that he's now being attacked by the frightened and vindictive Librano$:

Liberal Caucus & Islamist Hate Preachers Team Up To Target Jason Kenney:

http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.com/2012/01/liberal-caucus-islamist-hate-preachers.html

Scar, they can't get a divorce because they're not married. You can only get married according to the laws where you live. You can't get around those laws by visiting another country.

I agree batb, Jason Kenney's the man!