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Nov. 14 Update – Turner Holds News Conference – CTV has the transcript of his remarks;
Maverick MP Garth Turner said Tuesday that he is resigning from the Conservative party after being told he would not be permitted to seek a Tory nomination again.
“Me me me me, me me me me me me, me me me me me and me me me me me,” Turner announced, adding, “Me me me, me me me me me. Thankme.”
BBS has analysis.
This only proves that high incomes, joined with golden pensions, with inflation clauses, showered in free cars. Do not attract the cream of the crop.
I would aver it does the exact opposite. It calls like a siren, those who are opportunists, liars, thieves, malcontents turned professional freeloaders.
Drifters allied with con men. Some bad actors in the mix as well. Mostly lawyers though. With of course the requisite power hungry, nabobs of nihilism.
I will say still most, even those blinded by ideology, are sincere.
Garth Turner is just another life long member of their favorite club. Me Myself & I. In other words a dog in the manger narcissist.
I see a lot of liberals on here. How does it feel to watch others throw out their trash, while your still inhaling yours, if not regurgitating the same fetid unrepentant users?
For that empty,useless bunch of rhetoric,and a total”non-press conference”I wasted a beautiful day!I would like some help tho,with what Taber found “disturbing”about some of what Garthy Boy had to say ..WHAT ??? That it wasn’t just the Cons.that he was slagging?Only thing I could see that Plain Jane would find disturbing!What a bunch of dolts the msm is..for that they booked a room,and wasted the media’s time!One of these days,Garthy’s head will be so swelled..he’ll explode.
Speaking of fatheads,Steve McKinnon comes to mind.
Nice to see Garth practices what he preaches. Leave a post for him that he doesn’t like and see how long it lasts.
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You know Taber was waiting for something to diss Harper…she is terribly pre-occupied with twisting a story into “Bad Harper”.
Garth Who?
Garth could have a lot to offer, he seems to have some really sensible ideas on issues, but he can’t accept he’s not in charge of the Party he was elected under. Neither can he accept the rules of Caucus confidentiality, therefore, he has done the right thing by quitting the Party he professes to be a staunch believer in.
He is the author of his own demise, no party would tolerate such behavior.
The big story here is the MSM being taken for the silly beggars they are by this maverick politico, he didn’t give them what they anticipated.
Garth, the MSM, they deserve each other.
and now the press returns to Garth with the same morbid facination of a dog sampling his own vomit.
Garth could have a lot to offer, he seems to have some really sensible ideas on issues, but he can’t accept he’s not in charge of the Party he was elected under. Neither can he accept the rules of Caucus confidentiality, therefore, he has done the right thing by quitting the Party he professes to be a staunch believer in.
He is the author of his own demise, no party would tolerate such behavior.
The big story here is the MSM being taken for the silly beggars they are by this maverick politico, he didn’t give them what they anticipated.
Garth, the MSM, they deserve each other.
Another major me, lost in translation:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20061114.VOTEGTASB14/TPStory/TPNational/Ontario/
“And Carolyn Parrish, the controversial former MP who was tossed out of the Liberal caucus for her unkind words about U.S. President George W. Bush, landed a seat on Mississauga City Council.”
At least good sense re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-elected Hurricane Hazel.
/www.macleans.ca/topstories/national/article.jsp?article=2006_11_14_1163526402
Mark
Ottawa
This is simple … Darth (Vader) Turner is a spoiled brat who didn’t make the cabinet cut and simply cannot get over it.
He is a twit who will be completely faded away by the next election.
Bye Bye Darth you will not be missed.
And I do remember when he was flogging the reverse mortgage scam for seniors which is a legal way of stealing people’s homes.
He is a slut.
This is simple … Darth (Vader) Turner is a spoiled brat who didn’t make the cabinet cut and simply cannot get over it.
He is a twit who will be completely faded away by the next election.
Bye Bye Darth you will not be missed.
And I do remember when he was flogging the reverse mortgage scam for seniors which is a legal way of stealing people’s homes.
He is a slut.
Garth Turner is a narcissist? And what, Stephen Harper isn’t?
Kate, thought this might be of interest: Garth or his tech person routinely censors comments on his blog that are critical of him. According to comments left on my blog, this is a common occurence:
http://uncommontruths.blogspot.com/2006/11/garth-turner-get-that-light-away-from_13.html
”Nice to see Garth practices what he preaches. Leave a post for him that he doesn’t like and see how long it lasts.”
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Wow. Who else does that?
“I see a lot of liberals on here. How does it feel to watch others throw out their trash, while your still inhaling yours, if not regurgitating the same fetid unrepentant users?”
What the Rev said!
Cain :
Garth Turner is a narcissist? And what, Stephen Harper isn’t?
NO!! Harper is too busy trying to keep together a Dominion that will crash & burn if he goes. That’s why the there is so much emphasis on Provincial rights & Senate reform.
Shows me though the lefts special form of moral blindness . When you mistake resolve for a vice. Not surprising considering the left did nothing but loot others while in power . While enriching there buddies.
At the cost of the Nation, its infrastructure, legal system , social responsibility, education. They all suffered & continue to, under bureaucrats dedicated to group collectivism, over individual responsibility with rights.
All thanks to Liberal corruption , sleaze, scare mongering, dishonesty, power mongering. You know, most of the Liberal caucus with there abettors, the MSM.
Garth Turner is a small worm, compared to the killing virus of the left.
I really don’t know if PMSH can pull it off. I hope he does, but have no faith in the Euro Ontario mentality. They will give there liberty up for bread & the circus. Would be my bet. For conservative they will flee west from Utopia. I already see it.
You lotus eaters, still think its 2001 Sept. 10 nth. In twenty years I devoutly wish a Garth Turner is all where talking about.
Cain..in short, no he is not..he has a healthy ego and is quite sure of himself but not narcissistic…
Jack Layton and Paul Martin on the other hand…
“Harper is too busy trying to keep together a Dominion that will crash & burn if he goes.”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…ROTFLMAO
Harper is actually too busy integrating Canada with the US. Garth Turner, like Emerson, Fortier, softwood, income trusts, etc., is just another crack in the facade that the Conservatives are better/different than any other party.
I know that for the last 24-hours Garth keeps on deleting my comments on his blog, but only the ones that link back to here — in the most banal, mundane terms possible, even using such ordinary words as “link”.
If it links back here or asks why he deletes links back to SDA, Garth deletes it. It’s hilarious.
Liberals on income trusts do nothing, lots of leaks and wondering out loud.
Liberals on softwood again nothing but lots of money for lawyers.
And I guess maintaining a cordial relationship with your biggest trading partner is a bad thing to a real canadian like you iberia.
Rev Dream said:
“They will give their liberty up for bread & the circus.”
Just like Mussolini said:
“The truth is evident to all who are unblinded by dogmatism that men nowadays are tired of liberty.”
From the Apr. 7, 1923 issue of TIME magazine
Thus we conclude that modern LIEberal is really a fascist in disguise.
Note to Garth:
Andy Warhol called: Your 15 minutes are up!
Off topic, but enough on Turner already
The hits/commenters on cbcwatch.ca has jumped lately. Even after eliminating those who are paid employees of CBC, the # taking the time to audit their One Billion $$ is exploding.
I’m really not concerned about Garth Turner. I’m more concerned about Stephen Harper. There are many ways to be a leader and cleaning house is one of them. But the perception of Harper in the past has been that he is calculating and cold and Canadians typically are sympathetic. It is starting to look like he may be reinforcing some of those previous perceptions. Chretien ruled with a hard hand, but he was percieved as “the little guy from Shawinigan” and got away with it, largely brcause the press was on his side. The MSNM won’t be as kind to Harper. Some of Harpers decisions, although not popular have been for the good of Canada, and I applaud him for it. But this was for the good of the party and may not sit so well with the average voter.
al-lea:
You make decent points. But, I am hoping (and I think Harper is hoping) that Canadians are made of the right stuff. The kind of stuff where you appreciate a leader who makes the correct decisions and stands by what they decide. A leader who keeps his/her head down and gets the job done – rather than simply mugging for the cameras; on an endless quest for photo-ops and slogans like “da little guy from Shawinigan”. A leader who inspires confidence and actual leads – as opposed to someone who governs by committee and takes whatever the latest polls tells them and makes it policy.
I think that Canadians have that kind of spirit – deep down inside. We have shown it many times before the dawn of the CBC/Pravda/NDP tolerating days where the media made us feel that if we didn’t go along with whacky leftist ideals we were somehow un-Canadian.
If I am wrong…if this kind of spirit has been indeed bred out of a majority of Canadians and Harper is taken out because of it…well then this is not the right country for Harper as a leader. At least, if he sticks to his vision and doesn’t become drunk on the idea of power, he will go down with honor. That is something you can hardly say about any recent federal leader I know of.
al-lea:
You make decent points. But, I am hoping (and I think Harper is hoping) that Canadians are made of the right stuff. The kind of stuff where you appreciate a leader who makes the correct decisions and stands by what they decide. A leader who keeps his/her head down and gets the job done – rather than simply mugging for the cameras; on an endless quest for photo-ops and slogans like “da little guy from Shawinigan”. A leader who inspires confidence and actual leads – as opposed to someone who governs by committee and takes whatever the latest polls tells them and makes it policy.
I think that Canadians have that kind of spirit – deep down inside. We have shown it many times before the dawn of the CBC/Pravda/NDP tolerating days where the media made us feel that if we didn’t go along with whacky leftist ideals we were somehow un-Canadian.
If I am wrong…if this kind of spirit has been indeed bred out of a majority of Canadians and Harper is taken out because of it…well then this is not the right country for Harper as a leader. At least, if he sticks to his vision and doesn’t become drunk on the idea of power, he will go down with honor. That is something you can hardly say about any recent federal leader I know of.
like a dog returning to his own vomit , I was just at CBCpravda website. 3 stories on liberals and one on garth turner quitting the conservatives.
“CBCpravda – all Liberal , all the time.”
Garthstanding has replaced grandstanding!
Garthstanding has replaced grandstanding!
other greg writes:
“And I guess maintaining a cordial relationship with your biggest trading partner is a bad thing to a real canadian like you iberia.”
Well, it seems that your idea of a cordial relationship is bending over and saying “hurt me some more.”
NOW can the MSM just keep on rollin’ and finally ignore this man?
He has dwindled into complete irrelevance and he’s not worth one more soundbyte
The media was only salivating over Garth Turner because they wanted dirt on the Conservatives, especially Stephen Harper. Their mission is to seek and destroy conservatives and get the Liberals back inso they can get back to being win ed and dined on the taxpayer dollars.
Turn the tables and see what happens. What is a Liberal called a news conference like Garth did to “spill the beans” on Liberal insider stuff.
My guess, based on thr past, is the media would crucify this turncoat Liberal and defend the Liberal party. The reverse here is that they have treated Turner like some kind of guru.
other greg writes:
“And I guess maintaining a cordial relationship with your biggest trading partner is a bad thing to a real canadian like you iberia.”
Well, it is when your idea of a cordial relationship is bending over and saying “hurt me some more.”
I have attempted to post on Garth’s website – hmmmmmm it doesn’t come up – so much for Garth “letting Canadians have a voice”….
Of course the Garthies will never know that because they have been indoctrinated into Garth’s cult and actually believe that each individual Canadian should be able to dictate how the government works – 308 Independents all shouting and yelling and blogging and demanding that their views be heard and adopted.
Yeah – that would work!
RE: Iberia says,
Well, it seems that your idea of a cordial relationship is bending over and saying “hurt me some more.”
This goofy comment sounds homophobic and anti-American all at once.
“Harper is actually too busy integrating Canada with the US.”
So you must be outraged that the Liberals are bringing up all these American speakers to talk to them and give them advice right?
iberia’s word picture brought to mind the Libs treatment of soft wood lumber and what it did to the Canadian lumber industry..but it’s so easy for the Libs to blame Americans.And Libs have that love affair going on with some selective Americans..Howard Dean and Clinton…he’s the up-front kinda guy…
Harper has backbone…something Libs don’t recognise…and he has too much class to get into details about Garth.If you ignore the kid that is ‘acting out’ for attention, they will eventually stop the attention seeking behaviour.
Again-disappointing…talk about much ado about nothing. Ack. Yawn. Blechy. And what the heck is with all the double posts?
All together now….mmmmmmmm….Oh when the St. goes marching out, oh when the St. goes marching out…
“Elizabeth May should be the first Green member of Parliament in the House of Commons,” Turner said yesterday.”
John Turner did not say that.
It’s Garth Turner, stupid.
Buy Green and hold. …-
Well it appears I’m next on Garth’s digital democracy sensorship… Garth, certainly, doesn’t want anyone to criticize him. However, Garth does allow and post anti-Harper rhetoric babble.
But, I did post this after I got under his skin… so we’ll see if he is geniunely interested in all points of view or only from his groupies.
“Well Garth, your digital democracy goes as far as people aren’t critical of your actions, eh? Remember, you didn’t like censorship from your previous conservative caucus. Please practice what you preach.
I’ve complimented you several times, when I believed it was appropriate… most recently on your Remembrance day entry. But, don’t expect me to give you a false sense of nobility, when it’s not warranted.
BTW: my “100” entries have spanned the 10 months – which is about 10 per month… If you feel that it’s too much for your digital democracy…. then maybe you should state the rules.
BTW2: my “name calling” is nothing compared to your own “name calling”.
So, go ahead and don’t post this entry…. it’ll only just prove my point that you, Garth, only look for false groupie admiration entries.”
Interestingly, I sent another comment to Garth which of course didn’t come up so I signed another name and second e-mail address and voila – up it came. He does censor – too bad the Garthies don’t know that he is doing exactly what he complained was being done to him.
Idiot!
Surprising my two entries got posted. I guess he had a “change of heart”. Anyone catch Michael Coren tonight…. They spoke about Garth for about 10 minutes or so. Michael said that he knew Garth and said that he is a decent person but can’t understand why he chose the course he chose since not getting in cabinet – basically, Garth caused his own departure. The panel agreed that all MPs are given the party policies on which they run under, so if they don’t like it, then, why did they run in the first place. Interesting point.
No my idea of a cordial relationship is respect given is respect returned. You seem to be the only one with a bending over fetish.
NEWS FLASH: CORRUPT LIBERAL REGIME ENRICHES AMERICAN LAWYERS ON THE BACKS OF CANADIANS
“OTTAWA (CP) – The softwood lumber dispute with the United States may have delivered a hard blow to the Canadian forest industry but it was a boon to American lawyers, according to internal federal documents.
From April 2002 to March 2006, Ottawa spent at least $40.8 million in legal fees on the file, most of it for lawyers south of the border, according to the documents obtained by The Canadian Press using federal access to information legislation.
And that amount represents just a portion of the total bill.
According to numerous government sources, once the expenses of the federal government, the provinces, individual forest companies and Canadian forestry lobby groups are all added up, the legal tab rises to more than $300 million.
Guy Chevrette, president of the Quebec Forest Industry Council, agreed with the figures, saying his organization alone spent $5 million a year on the issue.”
Yeah real nice work if you can get it. It would be real interesting to see how all that loot got split up and what contributions were made to which politcal parties. Too bad that nasty Stephen Harper de-railed another gravy train. I would think that Liberals could have played that one out for another four years at least and then make a deal right before calling an election. Bad Mr.Harper. Quick iberia think up a good nasty name to call him. YSFM.
Yeah, bad liberals for fighting a trade dispute in court. Who would have thought that this would require lawyers who like to get paid with money. Meanwhile Harper just lets the Americans keep $1 billion, quite a bit of which was funneled into Republican party coffers. That’s showing them.
Yeah so much better than spending millions for nothing. Liberals returned zero dollars to Canadian Companies affected by the the softwood dispute at an expense to the taxpayers of 40.5 million dollars.
Harper returned over four billion dollars to Canadian Companies and returned even more money to the taxpayers when a budgeted eighteen million dollars earmarked for “legal expenses” was returned.
The cost to Canadians for Harper’s civility to the Americans, zero dollars. The return four billion dollars.
Liberal arrogance and inability to quickly solve international disputes.
Cost to Canadian Taxpayers 40.5 million with no results.
Score
Taxpayers of Canada 1
Lying Thieving Libranos 0
I hate myself for feeding the trolls, but Iberia’s too much to ignore: “Harper is actually too busy integrating Canada with the US”
Er, how exactly? By trying to change/postpone the US passport at the border initiative? By bringing an erstwhile Liberal into Cabinet to get a settlement on softwood dispute? (Memo to Iberiot: the definition of a successful compromise is one where neither party is satisfied) By being honest enough to admit that we had no hope of meeting Kyoto timetables, unlike the Liberals, who preached it like gospel while CO2 outputs rose? By saying we would live up to our commitment in Afghanistan, but not extending our forces into Iraq? By actually cutting the GST, which the Liberals promised to eliminate but then used to fund more waste? It seems to me that the only things that are different from the Liberals are 1) Harper gets results, and 2) Harper doesn’t find it necessary to insult and belittle America, a nation where many, many of us have relatives and friends.