I’ve heard some doozies before, but I’ll tell ya, this has got to take the cake.
What Mr. Harper should have done was to govern in coalition mode, presenting legislation that the other parties could legitimately sign on to, in recognition of his minority PM status. And he should have refrained from abusing the ability to make so many pieces of legislation confidence matters. That’s a glaring offence that’s been committed by Mr. Harper yet still, Mr. Layton is again capitalizing on Mr. Harper’s affront today, as Layton has, really, over the course of the minority parliament, chiding the Liberals for not voting down the government 43 times. The offence to our democracy belongs squarely on the shoulders of Mr. Harper for his practical abolition of minority government in this country. I would really like to hear Mr. Layton speak about the challenge that Mr. Harper poses to our democracy for a change.
Umm, what? Prime Minister Harper should have passed Liberal policies because he was in a minority? He should have taken over the NDP platform because the Liberals couldn’t decide whether to abstain or vote the minimum? He should have surrendered the advantage because they were the gov’t?
The Liberal bloggers are in panic mode. Impolitical certainly doesn’t have her towel handy.
Cheers,
lance
That is a great piece of convoluted logic. I think that it says,the natural governing party could not handle the job of opposition,therefore we should do everything possible to make them the government,Dat ‘Arper is a bully.
In the same vein, “Speechwriter Channels Leader”:
Yesterday, Liberal speechwriter Christopher Favelle wrote an editorial for Slate.com subtitled “How The World’s Nicest Country Turned Mean”. This drivel is un-frickin’-believable.
3w.slate.com/id/2199929/
More Steffi logic.
yesterday Dion announced $575 million to help insulate homes to stop global warming and be good little greenies.
According to Stats Can, there are 12, 435, 520 households in Canada.
So that means Steffi figures $46.24 per household should stop the planet from over heating.
That’s FORTY-SIX dollars and TWENTY FOUR cents
no wonder the lib bloggers are desperate . . . their leader can’t do math.
The signs of a Tory landslide in popping up all over the soon to be Great White North.
The signs of a Tory landslide in popping up all over the soon to be Great White North.
I’ve seen Squirrels less scatterbrained. Only a Neo-Marxist would have this used this type of an argument. After all Truth is what you make it & socialism is the perfect certainty to these totalitarians.
So why shouldn’t Harper in their minds be all things to all people. Besides they want to continue to believe Canada loves communism. Both varieties, National socialism based on National priorities or International socialism as a world movement. After all it was Stalin who coined the phrase left or right based on these concepts of Neo-Marxism.
Suites the purpose of these soft fascists to make him look as weak as possible like Paul Martin , bending to every wind or fad.
What is this person talking about?
Gibberish.
The government gets elected on its platform and then in some fashion implements it with some critique/minor input from the opposition parties.
The government is not elected to implement the OPPOSITION platform.
If you don’t like what the government is doing, the responsible thing is to get involved and try to change it, rather than shrieking from the sidelines. Go work for the party of your choice.
As to confidence motions, that is the raison d’etre of Parliament. The government should have the ‘confidence’ of the House of Commons otherwise it becomes an interloper in a democracy.
Learn some basic civics.
Cheers
Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
Frankenstein Battalion
2nd Squadron: Ulanen-(Lancers) Regiment Großherzog Friedrich von Baden(Rheinisches) Nr.7(Saarbrucken)
Knecht Rupprecht Division
Hans Corps
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
I believe I speak for most people with any sense of how a parliamentary democracy is actually supposed to work when I say,
“Seriously, WTF?”
Garth
Could it be that Canada is finally growing up, and maybe looking at the choices of leaders and saying after over 2 years of Cadman, Julies hooters, in and out,{coincidence} and whatever other despicable so called scandal these imbecile liberal and ndpee twits come up with, Enough. Harper has kept his cool through all the childish bull…. that these losers have wasted valuable house of commons time with, he has tiptoed around the ever vicious MSM who love nothing more than finding a conservative scandal while overlooking liberals running out of the public treasury with brown envelops of money. The U.S. has no pit yorkies like Jack and Jill and the slob Lizzy, on the ticket, it is one or the other down there, that is why they are sucessful. Time Canada grew up, don’t throw away your vote on the three stooges, vote right or wrong, give Harper the majority he needs and this country will finally see the place run like a place we can have pride in not a liberal daycare. And please Sask. set the bloated porkupine Goodale in a bin of flax.
ALERT . . . must watch . .
http://watch.ctv.ca/news/election-2008/fight-for-nl/#clip92376
Danny Williams channels Tony Soprano
The left is getting increasingly desperate. It’s only a democracy when fringe parties get to impose their will on the majority, you see. Anything else is a travesty.
“So that means Steffi figures $46.24 per household should stop the planet from over heating.”
Fred, that’s about 1 bundle of fibreglass insulation per household.lol
What is needed in Canada to bring homes up to Stephane’s standards, is a retro fit of new double glazed windows, and new energy efficient furnaces.
We bought a thirty year old house, and have just gotten three estimates on both, new windows: $5000-6000, new furnace; $3800-$5000, depending on brand.
So, if I wish to reduce my carbon footprint, it’ll cost me about $8800-$11,000.
The $46.24 won’t really make much of dent in that.
Stephane Dion, a nerd from another planet, McGill.
Not only is the writer’s thesis a load of bunk; it’s poorly-written to boot.
Lovely to see the wheels falling off the Arrogant Bastard Clown (ABC) campaign that Williams is on!Fife is all over it,so should elections Canada by the sound of things!I guess that kinda backfired on cbc,after they continually ran the little DICK-tater’s speech the other day..and I see again today,when covering PMSH in Nfld.Fife was livid…comparing Williams campaign to something out of Zimbabwe.
“””””The $46.24 won’t really make much of dent in that.”””””
that folks is for the BEER & POPCORN while you contemplate the loan you need to up grade:-))))
Saw the CTV clip regarding Danny Millions. Have to hand it to Fife he has more than redeemed himself in my mind for the ‘knuckle draggers’ biz.
These intimidation tactics are appalling – Harper should call him on this.
CBCpravda , All Liberal All the Time goes into lockdown mode. no Conservative headlines at all.
its an election fellas. lies by ommission. headlines from the pravda site today.
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Ms. May speaks nothing but utter tripe. Worse still, she thinks she is a politician. How stupid and vain of her. The Greens have chosen unwisely, unnless their objective is to perpetually avoid electing a representative and to just snipe forever from the sidelines with guttertrash logic like Ms. May’s.
I had trouble following the logic … then I realized that there wasn’t any.
Just wishful thinking and self justifying rationalization.
It’s the reason they are LIberals.
“The Greens have chosen unwisely”
Who knows? Considering the dysfunctional collection of oddballs that comprise the Green Party, perhaps (as bizarre as it may seem) Ms. May was the best choice. Maybe “best” isn’t the word. How about “least offensive”?
“The offense to our democracy belongs squarely on the shoulders of Mr. Harper for his practical abolition of minority government in this country.”
Erm…umm…does Ms. Impolitical understand that the opposition has had the option, at any time in the last few years, on any given day of assembly, of overthrowing Mr. Harper simply by, you know, standing up?
What is it about left-bloggers that makes them so…senselessly outraged? You get the impression that they either smoke too much pot, or that they’ve stuck their head in a paint shaker before they post, or that they’re grade nines desperately trying to act the same as the other kids.
I have to toss in one absolute, hammering caveat here: Terry Glavin has a superb blog that should be visited by people from across the political spectrum. He’s a smart, serious, and moral fellow, and an individual. I guess he’s a left-blogger, but based on the rest, he should probably be placed — against his will, I don’t know — in some unique category of his own.
Sammy..I couldn’t believe my ears when Fife went on the attack regarding Danny Williams,since when did he grow a pair?
No offence Ryan.
“The signs of a Tory landslide in popping up all over the soon to be Great White North.”
I hear that every election; never seen one yet.
I sincerely hope that the whole of nfld goes to the wrong side of the house. cut off of the federal teat will squeeze that insipid puke Danny Whiner Williams out of the next election.
best thing would to have nfld having to beg for dough and williams with the hat.
as people have pointed out before Danny Millions sucked the federal teat with all the dole seekers sitting at home watching cable TV.
danny is the perfect foil for SH. SH can play Captain Canada in a sweater talking in sane tones versus the insane joker antics of DW (sorry for the mixed hero/villan metaphor).
Watch now as DW becomes even more frantic and more unhinged as his ABC strategy makes him and the pliant fools in NL who support him look more and more rediculous.
DW is well on his way to becoming a worse despot than joey smallwood ever was. Let’s all hope that NLers screw up the courage to depose him sooner than later.
Impolitical made a very good point. When conservatives got elected in 2006 Liberanos and NDP had a chance to defeat Conservatives and form majority coalition government. Liberals were so sure of themselves and so sure that Harper would fall flat on his face that they never tried that option. They had a chance even three weeks ago to get Liberals Block and NDP together and offer GG that they would form the government.Now when it looks like Harper is going to get a majority they suddenly remembered that there are such things as coalitions. Dumbest part is that now they try to blame Harper for their lost chance. Dumb and slow on uptake.
“And this, finally, is Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion’s strongest argument (and I say this as a lifelong Tory who has known Mr. Dion for many years and admires the conviction and intellect he’s brought to Canadian politics).”
This lifelong Tory must belong to the same branch of the Conservative Party as The honourable Joe Clark.
That’s how the liberal establishment has been behaving all the way through; demanding the conservatives pass liberal legislation.
They still can’t understand they are losing control of the government.
I wonder how a conservative government is supposed to govern “in coalition mode” when the other three parties are leftist. There is not likely to be much common ground on the critical issues.
One gets the impression that what the Liberals really believe is unfair is that they are not in power.
Dmorris:
Dion went to Laval, not McGill. At McGill, you have to be able to speak English.
Thanks for the laugh Kate. Maybe Harper should have started each day in the commons with a group hug and a good rousing chorus of Kum bi ya. More group think, thats what we truely need.