Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Monday night jazz show, here couresy of listener Porter are Gerry Mulligan, Zoot Sims, Jon Eardley, Bob Brookmeyer, Bill Crow, and Dave Bailey performing Bernie’s Tune in Rome in 1956 (3:52).
There is no significant change in today’s ΣVe/n, it has now been
predicting 136 ±1 Conservative seats for four days running.
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
It should be remembered that in a country that is supposedly a democracy with a free press, probably 99% of the voters made up their minds without even knowing of the existence of Maurice Strong or Richard Warman.
Astounding ignorance — and while there may be a real choice, it is clear that the prime minister prefers to govern in this state of ignorance; he probably knows who one of these two enemies of freedom is.
This election will make or break the country. We’ll either return the stability of Harper to a majority or become a Leftist Morass. Even a Conservative Minority will ensure it, the Lefty cabal is ready to pounce.
Hardboiled;
“according to people familiar with the discussions.”
No direct quote from anybody?
Do you have a comprehension problem or what?
Forgot to take your meds today?
Good analysis ET.
I understood yrs ago that most Quebecers vote ‘blood’, or as Ayn Rand would say, for the ‘most base of all human emotions’.
But our ROC politicians refuse to make any changes that would better accomadate this Quebec failing.
Quick now, even though Montreal has had up to 25% or more non-French Quebecers, how many of these ‘blood foreigners’ have been elected as mayor of Montreal?
In 300 yrs – NONE.
So much for Quebec, or the self-proclaimed
‘cosmopolitan’ city of Montreal, having a worldy view.
We desparately need a new political order in Canada.
Hardboiled: You, sir, are an idiot, a poltroon, a misguided buffoon. Let’s assume Harper wins another minority, and then tries to govern like he had a majority (and what Tory said that before?). He tries to push through something controversial, gets defeated, and asks for another election. G-G Jean, who is definitely not a right-winger, gets approached by the Gang of Four, who say they can effectively operate as a coalition, and the country doesn’t need its 3rd election in just over 3 years. Jean agrees, and Dion becomes PM. THAT’S HOW MINORITIES WORK, YOU BLITHERING FOOL. Trying to play hardball with a minority is a mug’s game; go back and read some PoliSci 101.
And don’t you EVER accuse me of “fighting against” conservatism. I spent over 100 hours assisting my local candidate – phoning voters, making lists, installing signs, canvassing, etc. How much time did you spend on your local campaign? That’s what I thought. Hypocrite.
Now to Andrew, who’s much more reasonable. The whole point of the federal subsidy was to get rid of business contributions (and, IMHO, a knife in the ribs to Martin from Chretien) which had provided more money to the Liberals over the years than it had to the Tories. The economic reality is you can’t run a nationwide campaign without the type of money the parties are getting today. So you’d have to allow business contributions again, which would naturally have the left screaming the Tories are in the pockets of Big Oil, etc.
And, actually, the current system favours the Tories. They’ve gotten a larger share of votes in the last few elections, they haven’t had two expensive leadership campaigns in the last five years, and, being business people, they are much more efficient at raising money from individuals. The NDP is used to automatic union money, raked off from union dues, which it can’t get anymore. The Greens, as we have seen, are mostly a bunch of moonbats or idealists who know nothing about modern fundraising techniques. And the Liberals are used to leaning on their friends on Bay St. for dough, which they can’t do anymore. Tougher youth sentencing would be a better issue to challenge on, IMHO, but again, to do so early in the mandate is to invite the coalition scenario described above.
Nope, for the first two years, Harper is going to have to stick to his knitting, shepherd the economy through some rough times, and demonstrate again that he’s calm and prudent. Then he might be able to take some chances.