In the wake of the tsunami that was Stephen Harper’s massive majority victory on May 2nd, it has been quite a sight to see how the pundits on the Left have dealt with their anger & denial over this momentous event.
In the past, SDA regular ‘ET’ proffered an interesting theory that the Left’s theory of political nirvana wasn’t actually one of equality for all but rather a two tiered system where the peasantry (that would be you & me) was ruled by a tiny, intellectual elite from on high, albeit with a sizable bureaucracy of technocrats who served as an incompetent, but effective, buffer between the rulers and the peons.
Now that the Leftist elites have been shut out of power for at least the next 4 years, they are truly having a most difficult time dealing with the fact that someone else is being given their entitlements. Their reactions are somewhat akin to an adult baby throwing a tantrum. Here’s a recent sampling:
- The Globe & Mail editorial board condemning Harper for “rewarding his own”
- The Red Star’s Heather Malice imagining Harper supporters “leaving creepy packages on [her] doorstep in the dead of night”
- The Ottawa Citzen’s Susan Riley essentially predicting the end of the world, now that Harper is in power
Think back to when Liberal governments did exactly the same sorts of things. Do you honestly think there’d be the same outcries from these people? Or would we hear something more akin to this?
I’m glad my first comment didn’t make it through – I’m laughing now that I picture everyone jumping out of their skin when the cricket chirps – woke me up with my volume on high.
Adult babies? I’m speechless.
The Lest has also been coping through fantasies like imaging that somehow Layton is a co-ruling Vice Prime Minister as Leader of the Opposition and not just the Prime Minister of Vice as in reality.
[Lest = Left]
[And imaging = imagining. I think I’ll go have some coffee now.]
end of the world – perhaps. We’ll see if Harper actually follows through with his mandate or if he is ANOTHER conservative in name only who will coast and slide and do nothing to roll back the Progressive agenda
In any case the lefties have reason to cry. Trudeaupia was based on patronage and it belongs to them as a god given right. He is there god right?
As the lefties said when they talked coalition, it’s the rules, DEAL.
I did a little checking on popular vote in those ridings. Conservative % of vote went down in Smiths and Verner’s ridings since the 2008 election, but it went up 5% to about 40% support in Mannings riding! Somehow I think that is a positive. And in the next federal election, I think the shine will be gone from the Quebec NDP, and the NDP support will crash.
Bruce, I completely share your concerns about Harper being another Mulroney-like “CINO”. The fact that you & I deeply question Harper’s small-c conservative principles adds even more hilarity to the supposed trauma the Leftist pundits are experiencing!!!
Here’s an absolutely textbook example of MSM hatred and bias towards the CPC (written by the spouse of an lpc operative if I recall correctly)
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/harper-backs-united-nations-report-on-maternal-health/article2029729/
So this is the headline:
“Harper backs United Nations report on maternal health”
And this is the first paragraph that tells the accurate story:
“The United Nations has followed through on the Canadian-led initiative to improve maternal and child health by recommending ways to better track the money pledged by wealthy nations to improve the lot of women and their offspring in poorer countries.”
It was a canadian initiative – very publically led by Stephen Harper at the G20 – the the UN is now backing – not the other way around.
Positively vile bias.
“Baird is a cheerful, partisan brawler whose broad back as government leader in the House of Commons took much of the flak for Harper’s contempt for Parliament.”
Since Parliament is representative of the people, and the people sent Harper back with a majority, I’m going to have to say that this contempt is not contempt at all.
Ottawa Citizen:
-As for the official opposition: it promises to be vigorous, judging by the flood of press releases and announcements emanating from NDP head office and the probable nomination of Bob Rae as Liberal interim leader. But the opposition can only embarrass this government, not outvote it -and to be vulnerable to embarrassment, you have to be capable of feeling shame.
The “vigor” spent by the NDP will be on extinguishing the fires their marxism spewing new freshmen MPs start that burn their own party by exposing shockingly stupid soundbites of their true ideological position.
As to being “vulnerable to embarrassment, you have to be capable of feeling shame”…maybe “Velvet Touch” Layton could spend some time expounding on that, considering how he was found fully nude by the police in a common bawdy house.
I dare him or his minions to even speak about embarrassment or shame in the House of Commons in the future, it would be fun to watch E. Jack U. Layton run from the Commons the way he ran from reporters when asked about his embarrassing episode.
It would seem the ‘Globe and Mail editorial’ link leads you straight to the Toronto Star.
Fortunately for me I closed it out before it could load up.
“Hissing”?
I love the smell of empty brains imploding before the end of the World which BTW is tomorrow.
The libtards better get used to another 1 or 2 CPC Majority governments.
Loving it.
Thank you, burton. It’s now corrected!
Does anyone recall a website that listed Liberal Party scandals during the Chretien/Martin years? I thought Kate had posted it many moons ago, and I’m trying to find it in order to pass it onto some friends with short memories.
Is Heather Mallick considered sane?
a two tiered system where the peasantry (that would be you & me) was ruled by a tiny, intellectual elite from on high, albeit with a sizable bureaucracy of technocrats who served as an incompetent, but effective, buffer between the rulers and the peons.
1984 anyone? Hmm?
Oh and speaking of Orwell: “Everyone is equal, some are just more equal”
It’s clear we dodged a bullet.
Ahhh the bitter taste, the foaming at the mouth, the smell of acidic bile that makes up the bouquet of Socialist Whine.
A perfect whine for some MSM stewed crow.
Sean: I think it was http://www.scamlist.blog.com/ but it’s no longer live. Maybe try using The Wayback Machine tool to try to find archived pages for it?
Pass the popcorn … the entertainment is just fabulous.
WINNING!
“In the wake of the tsunami that was Stephen Harper’s massive majority victory on May 2nd”
A little overstated don’t you think? Yes Harper won convincing majority but the CPC gain in popular vote was a mere 2%. It remains that under one quarter of eligible Canadians awarded Harper such a majority. Harper used to be all about electoral reform and proportional voting, don’t think he’ll be bringing that up anytime soon. If there was a tsunami, clearly it was the NDP which gained 12.5% of popular vote (almost doubling its vote count from 2008 with a gain of just under 2 million votes).
“it has been quite a sight to see how the pundits on the Left have dealt with their anger & denial over this momentous event.”
Despite the constant railing against the Liberal MSM emanating from the right, the fact is that 90% of MSM news outlets endorsed the CPC in the 2011 election.
Now I share your hatred of liberals and agree that it’s a bit rich for them to condemn Harper’s abuse of parliamentary power, but that doesn’t make it right to stack the Senate (especially with people who just three weeks ago were rejected by their constituents) and it does make Harper a hypocrite. Again!
Is it possible that some of those pundits have a legitimate concern, or does winning a majority make the Harper regime beyond reproach and criticism?
Anyway, Robert -you’re so second rate. It would be so much more interesting and intelligent for Kate to have ET as a regular. As I’ve stated before, you make Celestial Junk look good.
Oh. And the site’s name was the Liberal Scam List.
Yes the cry of the Candian lefty elitist Loon.
I’m Entitled To My Entitlements – David Dingwall
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIo-bEsoMgA
The Communiusts are in an ypraor they can’t tke over society completley as as thier wish.
They want adult babies. What a sham these leeches are.
JMO
….to crush them and hear the lamentation of their women…….sweet!
@andycanuck: Thanks for the pointers.
Abe Froman 12:39 PM,
Yes, I was just saying to my wife yesterday evening that this fall is going to be the BEST blogging time ever because we haven’t had a Conservative majority here in Canada since political blogging began on the internet.
It is going to be so much fun throwing the Left’s canards, shibboleths, and behaviour back in their once smug faces.
They’re scared’n angry and I’m luvin’ it.
Found the list at BendGovernment:
http://bendgovernment.blogspot.com/search?q=liberal+scam
Seems I’d forgotten the extent of it myself…
The leftards squealing like stuck pigs, doesn’t mean Harper isn’t Joe Clark redux.
Perhaps they should heed the advise of that great unifier, Barak Obama, upon his win, to the Republicans:
“I won. Shut up and get over it.”
Bill Stewing-in-his-own-juices.
“Anyway, Robert -you’re so” kicking Bill Stewart’s whiney little beta male commie azz he’s going to find it impossible to NOT punch you in the arm in the hall when he sees you for a long time.
Bill Stewart, I realize that you have a difficult time keeping your HATRED for those you disagree with under control. Perhaps an adult-sized crib like is shown in the video would help reduce such feelings. Goodness knows, you probably already have the requisite diapers.
Bill Stewart’s obviously joking about Robert. (What a sense of humour! You go, Bill.)
Re the MSM, the part that killed me during the election was something the CBC did constantly.
When speaking of Iggy, they used the term “Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff” every tiime they referred to him. I swear they said “Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff” five times in a thirty-second story.
As for the Prime Minister of Canada, they referred to him soley and always as “Harper”.
Our tax dollars at work…
“Is Heather Mallick considered sane?”
Hard to say. When someone goes FULL RETARD does that mean they can be considered crazy or just mentally handicapped? Either way, I hope the MSM can someday come to it’s senses and see her for the hateful douche that she is and never print a word of her BS ever again.
It remains that under one quarter of eligible Canadians awarded Harper such a majority.
[SNIP]
If there was a tsunami, clearly it was the NDP which gained 12.5% of popular vote
~Bill Stewart
Note Bill Stewart uses the ‘eligible Canadians’ meter with Prime Minister Harper and a different ‘popular vote’ meter for the NDP.
Two different measuring sticks.
That is called ‘dissembling’ and is a form of lying.
Now I share your hatred of liberals
~Bill Stewart
If true that hatred comes from an NDP view of the Liberals as a competitor for the socialist vote share, case in point: the dissembling with an NDP bias.
Robert,
That you keep mentioning she who should not be named just raises here profile. She gets my goat on occasion but usually she lines a bird cage where if she disappeared I wouldnt know the difference. Thats my advice on what ocntext to put her in.
The Liberal candidate in my riding of Qualicum Beach, a youngish activist-lawyer, claimed pre-election that Canada would become a fascist state if Harper got a majority.
Immediately after the election she said she would probably run yet again, which begs the question of why she expects there to be another election if we’re governed by fascists?
Robert,
That you keep mentioning she who should not be named just raises here profile. She gets my goat on occasion but usually she lines a bird cage where if she disappeared I wouldnt know the difference. Thats my advice on what ocntext to put her in.
The most interesting question for me is whether PMSH
will proceed with the Muskrat Falls deal. Kathy Dunderdale, the NL premier,
has spoken to him since the election and says that he is keen to get on with it.
PMSH has no electoral reason to proceed. However, I think he is sufficient of an honest man that he will honour his commitment.
Also, as a small-c conservative I think he is happy that NL is off the dole, and will help to keep it off in perpetuity.
Nonetheless PMSH is a skilled and ruthless politican, so anything is possible.
NL has behaved with Mallickian insanity recently.
One can only hope that the old Newfoundland – in favour of free trade, piracy, and small government – is not dead.
Globe and Mail: “Whaaa, waa, waa, whaaaaaaaa!”
So much for the Harper endorsement.
Cry me a river! I love it.
Someone is stalking Heather Mallick? Wow, talk about setting the bar low. (I’m not sympathetic because she’s a complete hysteric and her “phone stalker” is almost certainly one of the neighbours asking her to close the curtains please.)
Speaking of “ET”…does anyone know where she has been? I haven’t noticed any post from her in awhile….
I just picked this up on the National Post website:
http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/05/20/government-to-end-party-subsidies-in-next-budget/
In the area of overall government spending it isn’t all that large, under 30 million. For the Liberals, the Bloc and the Greens it is immense. Stand by for the whining!
Bill Stewart: “Despite the constant railing against the Liberal MSM emanating from the right, the fact is that 90% of MSM news outlets endorsed the CPC in the 2011 election.”
The MSM only started to endorse Prime Minister Harper about a week before the election, I suspect when they realized that their “natural ruling party” wasn’t going to win. When faced with either a CPC government or, God forbid, a government led by the tax-and-spend (and worse), NDP, they did some fancy footwork and reversed their anti-Harper rhetoric.
The MSM certainly wasn’t endorsing PMSH and the CPC from the beginning of the campaign.
As for your unkind words, Bill Stewart, about Robert, what’s your problem?
Re the penultimate sentence in Susan Riley’s rant about PMSH and his CPC government, “Like Senate appointments, the tenor of our politics is, now more than ever, one man’s call”: Was it any different when Jean Chretien was dicta … er, PM? Why, under Prime Minister Harper are our politics “more than ever one man’s call”?
I don’t remember Ms. Riley or any of the other MSM Susans, railing against Chretien or his decisions, which more often than not were contributing factors to the Librano$’ “culture of corruption,” that Justice Gomery talked about.
I’m delighted that Susan Riley’s knickers are in a knot. ‘Looks good on her. She’s never disguised her visceral dislike of PM Harper; now, I hope she’s choking on it!
A paperbag of flaming poo on Mallicks doorstep does not constitute stalking.
Leftist elites have been shut out of power for at least the next 4 years
ITT people pretend that the CPC is not chock-a-bloc with leftists such as Moore.
I almost laughed out loud when reading this post. Does Robert really think the left is some mind-hive/conspiracy? What entitlements is he even talking about aside from senate seats? There is no conspiracy guys, Heather Mallick is just insane, Susan Riley is a melodram, and the G&M is, just this once, calling it as it is.
John Lewis:
“One can only hope that the old Newfoundland – in favour of free trade, piracy, and small government – is not dead.”
Piracy?
I gather a return to the NL of old means hoisting the jolly roger over the fishing dories or is this a practical application of H.L. Mencken’s quip “Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.”
So our patronage sh*tstorm is good because theirs would have been bad? Is that the new standard around Harperland?
I guess the answer is obviously yes, and one could have predicted this well in advance of May 2nd.
I got a bad feeling when Mulroney retread Marjorie Lebreton (I must admit that I don’t even care enough to spell the name correctly) was wheeled out to spin the Senate appointments yesterday. Talk about cynical, this was more or less “in your face, Liberals” but at the same time it tends to come across as “in your face, conservatives who actually care about principles.”
And this has not gone unnoticed. I think many now expect a very low bar of ethics to become the new normal and I genuinely feel sorry for some of you, having gone through this once before with Mulroney, the bright shiny optimism of the start with the big majority (well not that big) and the death by a thousand cuts until almost nobody is left really believing. Then comes the inevitable split and factionalization.
It doesn’t have to be this way, but it will be unless there is really substantial change in the way this party approaches the question of power. From this cynical start, the only predictable end result will be scandals, corruption, and malaise. And very little real conservatism.