It didn’t take long for the national media to reboot their rhetoric about Stephen Harper. Elected overwhelmingly to the new Conservative party leadership, and winning the vote in every region of Canada, the sun hadn’t risen on his new leadership term and the Toronto Star is pulling out the hatchets : Harper = Alliance = Reform = Western = Alberta = RightWing = Extremist = Rednecks = Bigots = Run For The Safety Of Your Liberal Mamas! “
You get the idea.
Let It Bleed is all over the Toronto Star editorials today.
If it’s Sunday, it must be time for the Toronto Star to let out its stable of barking moonbats. This week’s theme is that conservatives are just too damn crazy to form a government in Canada. Strangely, Haroon Siddiqui and Antonia Zerbisias are missing in action this week, but never fear: to replace them the Star has drafted… wait for it… Senator Ted Kennedy. I kid you not.
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Linda McQuaig proves incapable of coming up an original idea for her column, so she just parrots what her bosses say. Too radical. Too “mean-spirited”. Too, you know, non- Liberal. Now, to be fair, Linda does bare her soul and reveals something about herself which, probably, no one suspected. At least, I know I wasn’t prepared for it. Are you ready for it? Make sure you’re sitting down; make sure you’ve got a phone next to you, in case you need to call for medical help. Ready? Okay, here we go… don’t say I didn’t warn you:
“I’ll confess that conservatism has never been my cup of tea…”
Here’s something else that I know no one suspected – there are no true “right leaning conservative” political parties in Canada
None. Not a single party espouses dismantling universal health care. Not a single party is campaigning on a platform of adding property rights to the Constitution. None are suggesting that First Nation treaties be renegotiated to eliminate entitlements to individuals on the basis of racial pedigree. No party is advocating the elimination of our “affirmative action” like hiring programs in government. None of the parties are suggesting the CBC or Via Rail be sold.
The Canadian Conservative Party is ideologically positioned somewhat to the left of the US Democrats on the majority of fundamental issues. There are no parties of the “right of center” in Canadian politics.
What was the name of that excruciatingly boring CBC Wildlife space filler that started with stock footage of a float plane, a beaver and a moose, or a prairee dog? It meant that the fun programming (usually cartoons) was over, and that an idiotic fishing show was on the way, and the set might as well go off. Or did the NFBC produce it? I think it went:
If you are especially quiet in the wildlife habitat, a little-seen creature may stick its furry head up into the air a few inches before darting back down to the safety of the low ground cover. It is a Common Lesser Voter, timid and known to scatter back to the herd at the first harsh cry of a Left-Winged Shrill, so you must remain very still, and not startle it into flight. The Shrills are ever watchful, and often fill the skys with their wings when there are no Voters in the open. Any Voter so foolish as to draw attention to itself at this time, and threaten the stability of the others, is pushed from the herd into the nearest patch of clear ground. A chorus of calls: ‘Nottus-eh, Nottus-eh’ pipes up until the Shrills descend for the feast.
Then peace settles back over the habitat, and the thin, everyday sound of the Voters barely makes itself heard above the grasses: ‘Gripe, gr-r-r-ipe. Mew. Gr-rr-r-iiipe.’ Life is good for the Shrills of the Canadian north.
And there would be the rest of the afternoon to fill, and I would read a book, and be done with it.
Bump!
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