Now is the time at SDA when we told you so!
Michael Ignatieff, May 2nd…
“We have to be big enough, courageous enough, united enough as a party to look at ourselves in the mirror” and learn the lessons of what the Canadian people told them with the election results, he said.
He also said he would be around to study those lessons.
“I will serve as long as the party wants to ask me to serve and not a day longer,” Ignatieff said. “I’m willing to do that work of renewal, reform and growth.”
“Sorry – just visiting!”
They had better not give him the lavish MPs pension …. he doesn’t qualify and they had better not bend the rules. He needs to go back to his job at Harvard, home of that other suspect character, Barack Obama.
We really need to ban university professors from politics they are so stupid.
Consistent, eh?
Apparently he is just shy of the 6 years required to get a full MP pension, Abe.
Ignatieff sounds a little bitter. He should take a good look in the mirror and there see the person who is at fault for this historical Liberal thrashing.
Michael, speaking for the average Canadian blue collar worker,” we just don’t like you or trust you”, period.
Your true feelings were never in doubt,you are an aristocrat and we are but peasants. Condescension flowed from you like maple syrup from a Spring maple.
Go back to your academic world and lick your wounds, you were not worthy of us.
“I will serve as long as the party wants to ask me to serve and not a day longer…”
Looks like he got a couple phone calls last night, eh? Bwaha!
What do you say to a metrosexual intellectual, who after a 30 year absense thinks he can return to Canada to reign over the Tim Horton’s and small town hockey arena crowd he holds in such disdain?
To the LPC and their apologists in the MSM, welcome to your LONG nuclear winter. You’ve earned it.
@RosieBarton
The general consensus is that a majority govt means more policy stories. Cool. That’s good for everyone.
Ha ha ha ha whatever helps you get through the day.
He’s just announced that he is going back to teaching in Canada this time. Should some openings with all day kindergarten coming in.
But…. what’s going to happen to the Puffins now??
The reason why those attack adds were so sharp was because they were factually accurate.
Does this represent the final nail in the coffin for Trudeaumania in Canada?
I sure hope so.
You really can’t blame Iggy for resigning – after all, he did say he would stay as long as the party wanted him to stay and not a day longer… it just so happened that the Party told him last night to take a hike.
This speaks more to the Liberals making it true than Iggy.
You called it Kate.
However that was rather fast wasn’t it?
Duceppe is leaving politics as well. Heh, glad to see them OUT of politics, altogether.
Congrats Canada.
Todays is another good day.
Iggy was a blessing for us – a doofus who called elections the moment LPC needed them least. Too bad to see him leaving.
Oh how I love it. The Night of the Sharp Knives is just beginning.
Shame about Iggy losing his seat, same with Dr. Dhallhahaha, Guergis, Doucette,and Dryden .
A little known fact is that our favorite Anti Racist Communitist candidate in Calgary got 250+ votes – almost as many as a certain Green Party candidate from the past and double that of a noted Stormfront admirer. I thought that these folks only dared run within the walls of theformer Toronto Party?
Ah well Goodale from Regina and Dewar from Ottawa plus Ms. May should be able to help mold a coalition with Jack the nimble.
Calgary is getting mighty metrosexual.
I thought Bob Rae put the nail in Iggy’s coffin when interviewed by CBC after the Iggy speech. Although he talk in round about terms, there was no doubt he intended to show Iggy the door asap.
Oh he couldnt go anywhere else but Canada. It would only prove the cons point.
He is at the end of his career anyway. He is 64?? WHile he can lecture and pick up guest positions nobody will take him on as a permanent professor, it makes no economic sense.
As for the lack of MP pension…..he is fine personally, do not bend the rules. And I hope he doesnt ask for the rules to be bent. Because there are more than a few Bloc MP’s that will be in the same boat.
I expect an articulate but angry screed from Iggy just before the Christmas book buying season. And given his past history it will skewer as friends as supposed enemies.
First Iggy says that Canadians don’t like sore losers, then proceeds to be precisely that with his comments about Harper. This guys lips keep moving but he doesn’t seem to exhibit much control over what comes out of his mouth.
It is with some degree of satisfaction I watch this elitist UN globalist slink back into some lower 48 globalist brain trust vacuum to lick the wounds to his gargantuan ego. Treating one of the mob party’s snobby leaders like a ‘whupped dawg’ gives some satisfaction for the decades of corruption,and statist autocrcy they burdened this nation with.
RIP count Iggula, your klepto party is on death watch as you leave – life is sweet!
He couldn’t even time his political demise so that he could get his lavish pension. It was entirely in his hands and he was too stupid to even get that right. And they said that Bush was not smart!
Loser, meet sore loser.
He noted that the “only thing Canadians like less than a loser is a sore loser”…
And he called it an “absolutely unscrupulous campaign of personal attack.”
@TJ – that makes two of us. I remember that smarmy pinko hippie-wannabe only too well.
Someone needs to update and investigate the http://hashtagfail.tumblr.com/ site. I think a lot of the people on that site won last night.
Thinking back now to that photo of Ignatieff brandising the maul at Home Depot I never imagined at the time that he was taking it to the Liberal Party.
33 seat historic low, wowser.
Even with the vote subsidy the LPC’s financial fortunes are such that they will never recover.
Without the subsidies they’re doomed.
Maybe it’s the majority but I’m feeling mellow and generous this morning so a kind word for Ig.
Unlike those of us who post anonymously or just don’t bother to vote at all, Ig put himself out there. He went front and centre, announcing and defending policies, running for office and doing something to shape this country. That yesterday the voters said “not just no, but hell no” doesn’t negate that.
We all lose if people don’t run for office. We all lose if there aren’t vigourous debates and hard-fought campaigns, even in a losing effort. So, even though I disagreed with almost everything Ig stood for, I thank him.
In speaking to Liberal supporters Ignatieff said ” we will continue the fight and I will fight with you and be your leader for as long as you want me to be”
Minutes later Liberals had their response for him “About one more sleep”
Canadians also had an answer for the professor this morning – ” In the spirit of a true democracy let’s have that charade of a contempt vote now in the parliament of Canada”
Canadians also have advice for the Liberal Party “If your next choice for leader is Bob Rae, that will be the final nail in the coffin of the Liberal Party of Canada.”
Funny link, James, but I didn’t have the heart to Google the names to see how many did win.
“He said he’s hoping the next Liberal leader may be a young woman.”
Not only is he a loser he’s an ageist, sexist, son of a gun!
Just wondering – is Justin Trudeau threatening to move to Florida?
It’s kind of traditional down here for loser lefty pols to threaten to move to Canada, so, you know…
I hear you, $ FKA gord @ 11:27 AM, but teaching all day kindergarten is WAY HARDER than anything Iggy’s done so far.
Actually, being sentenced to that fate would be just what he deserves. (It wouldn’t be so good for the poor kids, though.)
The only major negatives about last night’s results were Elizabeth May’s election (very strange indeed) and windbag Goodale retaining his seat.
Next exercise in Lieberal politics is whether or not to raise the ghost of Christmas’ past as in Turdeau Mania Part Deux, continue the Rae Ride to full socialism or actually get new blood and start anew. Somehow, I can’t imagine the back room coven to approve a wholesale to down change.
TJ: “Does this represent the final nail in the coffin for Trudeaumania in Canada?”
I can guarantee that it will be if boy wonder Justin decides to run for leader. That will be the sure sign that the LPC has nothing left.
This is my understanding of what the Conservatives will be looking at for 4 years on the other side of the HOC.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Gliederpuppe.png
Just asking, I wonder what the liberanos are gonna do about all the money they owe?
Iggy was awful but the Liberal party’s problems (the entire West, Quebec, rural Canada, suburban Canada, fundraising, internal divisions, lack of policy and direction, corruption) go far beyond one man.
Still, it took the Torys 9 years to get a majority against 3 weak Liberal leaders, Adscam, and years of Liberal corruption. The NDP are a joke – they aren’t going to hang on to those Quebec seats. The Liberals will eventually be back, though not in the form they are now (and hopefully not anytime soon).
The guy on my link at the star wars convention won. He’s still working on his political science BA if you catch the drift.
Good point, FREE. Will Stepane Dion require yet another extension for his loans from the LAST election? Should Ignatieff be allowed to skip the country and leave a pile of debt behind? Inquiring minds.
Anyone have the PM’s presser video from this morning?
Just perusing Facebook and noticed that newly elected Member of Parliament Ruth Ellen Brosseau (the vegas girl) has quite the FB profile and her latest status updates is… (drum roll)
Latest status update – Won the “jack”pot last night! 157,000$/year for 4 years. Much better than what I won in Vegas during my vacations last week!
Thank goodness there is a majority government to keep these people at bay…
Check http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/pages/Ruth-Ellen-Brosseau/196281490417162
Sounds like a sore loser to me.
What makes me feel so good is that the so called “ethnic vote” in some of the high percentage immigrant ridings such as Richmond BC have gone conservative. That means that they’re seeing through the progressive left rhetoric and not buying it. I truly feel we ARE Canadians together. Perhaps now we can say good-bye to the anxiety caused by political correctness and progressive fear-mongering and enjoy this country together after all!
Do I alone see the vanquishing of the BQ as Quebec’s rejection of separatism and a vote to re-join the Canadian dialogue?
Today my faith in Canadians is boundless! What a Canada Day we will have this year!
May 3 : Michael? It’s Paul Desmarais on line 1
Maybe they should try someone from Yale.
“I will serve as long as the party wants to ask me to serve and not a day longer…”
……….iggy,phone call on line 1 for you!!!
So when do we start the “Draft Warren Kinsella” campaign?
I mean the Liberal party is down, but a Kinsella leadership period would put a stake through its cold, black diseased heart.
It would almost be as much fun as promoting Turd-Oh Junior for the leadership.
Some American friends in a chat room asked my wife what the election meant in Canada. She told them: “tomorrow we all get to go-out and shoot a liberal”.
Apparently she got a bunch of “hell yeahs!” for a response, and one of disgust.
So now the ppg goes after Jack about his pylons. This is unreal.
Lucas Kenward…
Re: the Vegas girl
Gambling addiction? Very appropriate for a Dipper.
The only major negatives about last night’s results were Elizabeth May’s election (very strange indeed)…
Posted by: biffjr. at May 3, 2011 12:30 PM
And it had to happen in B.C. to boot. Sorry, everybody. I don’t know what people in that riding were thinking, the Green voters anyways. They went from cabinet table representation to a one-trick-pony joke.
I was a bit cheesed off with Sun News last night when they replaced the “Other” graphic with the Green Party logo. Had I been in control, I’d have yanked the Bloc logo, and lumped Beaver May and the Bloquistes in the Other category.