39 Replies to “Enter The Orchard Davidians”

  2. with population of 68 % native in the orchard davidian riding they will welcome every handout opportunity with that famous handshake palm up and fingers crossed behind their back. orchard already asking for extra provisions to divide up the carbon pie in very unequal portions. the lieberal platform starting to take on all the organization of a plate of spaggetti.

  4. Easy peasy, they simply buy carbon credits/offsets. If they can’t afford that then the answer is more taxes.

  5. If there are true Vampires David Orchard is among them. He seems to have the power to contaminate all he touches. A political undertaker with the whiff of death emanating from him like a bad fart at a funeral.

  6. Maybe, like the original Branch Davidians, the Liberals will split into two sects: Orthodox and Extra Crispy.

  7. Yeah….that sign looks NOTHING like any Liberal sign I’ve seen to date.
    David is his own party, regardless of who’s banner he is running under.
    Has he ever run as an independent? Probably one of the few who might get away with it.

  9. Hi Kate
    I was the one to send that picture of Orchad’s camapign sign. I apologize that i sent it so unexpectedly. Two items jumped out at me when i first saw this sign out Sunday morning. One is the complete lack of Dion anywhere. For a man so instrumental in Dions win as leader, the complete lack of Dion’s name anywhere struck as odd. Reading further anedoctal stories of other Liberal candiates discreetly removing Dion from their campaign material put Dion’s missing name into some context.
    The second and most obvious thing is the tiny size of the liberal logo in the bottom right. Orchard’s face takes up about 70-80% of the sign and tucked away in the corner of the sign is the Liberal party logo. As a resident of the riding I have been trying to figure out why he is trying to minimize his connection to the Liberal Party. Perhaps he is banking on his name recognition and reputation to win or he wants to distance from the Dion reign he himself created and hope to perhaps survive as a liberal under a new Ignatieff/Rae/Trudeau leadership

  10. Orchard is just confirming it is “The Shaft”…not The Shift!!
    Its ok David…Harper has it handled…he is cutting the tax instead of increasing it!!

  12. Another lib wants a little tweak for his riding,sure,it won’t change the plan much. I wish they would just cut the BS and announce that if elected the green shift will only be applied to ridings where liberals are not elected.

  13. I think Mr. Horchard wants in on the debate. What could be the problem? Just another liberano siren voice; seducing the msm – as if the Puffins have to sing, they bagged that media bunch a few decades ago. Go for it Dave! Lizzy got away with it.

  14. Sounds to me like Orchard’s making admissions, namely that the Green Shaft is going to ruin all kinds of businesses (namely those that can’t pass the tax on to the consumer). If you want to get all “economic” n’stuff, those whose demand is not inelastic…
    You’d be surprised at how many lefties who feel it’s their duty and superior moral standing to tax the productive (which rarely includes themselves), but who economically have merely passed the tax on to the consumer. Lefties – they’re heroic (in their own minds).

  15. Well, there can’t be much of Dion’s green shaft left, with all the changes they’re making up on the fly.
    Just imagine the spittle that’ll be flying when he tries to defend it in the debates. Should be funny. If I can bring myself to watch it. Having a hard time tuning in to any coverage. Absolutely cannot stand to listen or watch Dion and Layton anymore…

  17. I couldn’t be happier.
    Having Orchard in the Liberal camp is right were we want him.
    Speaking of Orchard types, isn’t it time Joe Who got trotted out by the media.
    The Liberals look like they could use the help.

  18. Over at Angry, “gimbol” asks:
    “Now that this story made SDA I wonder if it will make the breaking news segment on CBC’s coverage of the election?”
    …-
    “David Orchard: Green Shift leaves no options for farmers”
    “She’s not impressed: Small Dead Animals has spotted David Orchard’s comments too.”
    http://stevejanke.com/archives/273259.php

  19. David Orchard, the enemy within.
    That’s what you get when you pick up misfits and dregs like Orchard and Turner.

  20. Even assuming “green Shift” was originally worthwhile (a stretch, but don’t laugh, yet) the Liberals will end up gutting as the cave in to each special interest group—eventually, individual poor and middle class individuals will be left to shoulder the entire burden of this proposed tax scheme.
    Remember they adopted Kyoto, then spent over a dozen years sitting on their hands.

  21. Even assuming “green Shift” was originally worthwhile (a stretch, but don’t laugh, yet) the Liberals will end up gutting their plan as they cave in to each special interest group until, eventually, individual poor and middle class individuals will be left to shoulder the entire burden of this proposed tax scheme.
    Remember they adopted Kyoto, then spent over a dozen years sitting on their hands.

  23. Chretien “adopted” Kyoto and the only part he understood or intended to act on was buying hot air from the world’s worst polluters and most especially China.
    The Liberals were all bluff on Kyoto and their environment plan which Dion was unable to concoct for the almost decade he sat as Environment Minister. The Carbon Tax is another boondoggle in waiting.

  24. I actually think Carbon Taxes are the right way to go assuming you really want to get rid of this stuff.
    However, the Liberal plan is about raising revenue and distributing goodies….Harper actually raises a good point about constitutional issues. You forget how peaceful it has been, despite the crank in the attic (Williams). Harper has it right on each level respecting the constitution as written as opposed to how they wish it was written.
    So the Liberals havent thought it through, the Green plan is a little better…but you know, until it is abundantly clear that there really is an issue regulation is prbably a better way to achieve it, as much as it pains me to say that. That is being practical.
    Why base your future revenue on a product you just arent sure is a problem, and we all exhale anyway.
    Work on creating a market for electric cars yada yada yada. Fossil Fuels arent going away but like cheques in the financial world we can just begin to reduce our need and use of them.
    Anyway, Cons need to put a bad week behind them, regroup and get back on the plan they worked on. It will show next week.
    Dion hasnt really started his campaign yet….Liberals are going to run a Paul Martin campaign, with the rush being at the end, assuming their plane doesnt run out of fuel. Man their trip to BC this week is probably going to be their one and only.
    Ladies and Gentleman, the Leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition, Mr Jack Layton.

  25. Funny, all these liberals trying to get exemptions for their interests groups from the green shaft makes me laugh.
    At some point, even the liberals in the media are going to have to explain why they expect the general public to be holding the bag.
    I’m not sure why the CPC haven’t unloaded on this except that they’re probably waiting until near the end to go after the costs of voting leftard.

  26. So David Orchard appears to be somewhat uncomfortable with Dion’s Green Shaft:
    “[Orchard] suggested that the Green Shift plan would hurt voters in his riding and should be tweaked — again.”
    Curiously, this story doesn’t seem to be attracting much interest in the broader MSM. But if Orchard was a Conservative candidate, and criticized some plank of Harper’s platform, you can bet your bottom dollar that the MSM would be all over it like flies on honey.
    Similarly, if Jim Davis were a Conservative organizer, and had attacked some aspect of Stephan Dion’s Afghanistan policy, you can rest assured that the MSM would have thoroughly questioned what role his political affiliation played in motivating his complaint. As it stands today, no one in the MSM has asked Dion what he thinks of leaving Afghanistan in 2011, and not surprisingly he’s not volunteering any statements to that effect.
    And I would bet the farm that had a Conservative candidate uttered the same comments regarding shooting Mohawks that a former Liberal candidate in Quebec did, the MSM would have parked that headline front and center for days on end, instead of burying it at the bottom of stories detailing Harper’s war room troubles.
    Bias? What bias?

  27. I do not know about you, but if you go to:
    http://jasoncherniak.blogspot.com/
    you will notice on the right hand side of his blog the link: “Join Jack Layton’s team
    Finally, a PM who’ll put you and your family first. Donate now. JackLayton.ca”
    No kiding – even Jack reaches into his Conservative and NDP bashing a LIEberal strong hold under DeYawn. I wonder if Turner has the same problem LOL
    Go Jack go LOL

  28. Would like to see real numbers on the Green Shaft.
    That is one tax that will go in one direction only.
    Up.
    Think Gun Registery.

  30. I agree with Maz2, that looks a little odd. EDAs are allowed to come up with their own signs, however they must have the “Authorized by the Official Agent for the ______ Party” tagline on there somewhere. Perhaps on the original photo you can see if that’s what’s written in the lower left-hand corner.

  32. Gen Lee Wright
    I took a look at the orginal picture on my oomputer and the tiny writing located in the bottom left corner does have the “Authorized by the Offical Agent” bolierplate. I had to zoom in on my original pictures in order to pick it up. I am still left wondering why so much of the Liberal brand is minimized in Orchard’s camapign

  33. doowleb…an astute observation.Yesterday’s Globe or Post,I can’t remember which[IMO they are the same]had Joe who stating that E.May should be included in the debate.

  34. The more exceptions there are to the Green Shift plan, the more inequitable it becomes.
    Given that inequitibility is already its major flaw, attempts to sell the plan by handing out more dispensations make it less … sellable.
    Although it make get Orchard elected.

  35. Dennis @ 10:13 am –
    “Bias? What bias?”
    Canadian leftist MSM hate conservatism and Harper in particular.
    They are in leftist socialist tanks, be it Greenies, Taliban Jack’s ND’s or Green Shaft Libs.
    Corrupt enablers – all!

  36. I’ll be looking to SDA commenters to fill me in on the debates.
    I certainly won’t be watching. At 65, I’m not sure how many years I have left. I don’t want to spend a second of that time watching Watermelon Lady, Taleban Jack and the traitors telling us how they’re going to destroy one of the most successful countries in the history of the universe.

  37. jlc….”watching Watermelon Lady, Taleban Jack and the traitors telling us how they’re going to destroy one of the most successful countries in the history of the universe.”
    No.We are NOT successsful.We still allow some smalll degree of free thought.We still allow a little bit of individual freedom.Ergo….we are NOT succeccful according to Taliban Jack,Commie Lizzie,and the Frog,Deyawn.
    Cripes. And here I, in my stupid, conservative little mind, thought burlap was for wrapping trees,not female human beings.

  39. David O couldn’t have asked for better fortune than to have the nomination stripped from him in the bi-election. He got tons of free press and name recognition, he got a reputation of being a “maverick” in the Liberal party so he will be looked at as a positive alternative to the Tories, and not supporting the Liberals in the same breath. I think his chances of winning the seat are very good; conversely, Goodale’s opposite strategy will cost him for the same reasons. David O’s true colors will be in view when the new regime takes over the Liberal party, and David O’s concern for farmers and such diminishes.

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