81 Replies to “Oh, Shiny Pony!”

  1. Trudeau may be dim but he’s still more aware than the PM who has spent the last half-year busily shooting his own feet away with full support from most cons. Trudeau doesn’t have to be smart, he just has to keep riding high in the polls, which he is, and watch as Harper and Co. immolate themselves, which they are.

  2. Trudeau`s comment about Conservative women being mouthpieces, essentially, is based on fear. If I was in a wresting arena facing a woman the size of Andre The Giant, my first reaction (in public) would be, “she`s nothing but a mouthpiece.” My second reaction, after sweeping myself off the floor, would be, “Holy F#$%!!”

  3. LAS,
    “Trudeau may be dim…”
    There’s still hope. I’ll tame PM Steven Harper, who at least lives in the REAL world, over ANY “wannabe PM” of Justine’s ilk and background. Period.
    TC

  5. im·mo·late
    [im-uh-leyt]
    verb (used with object), im·mo·lat·ed, im·mo·lat·ing.
    1. to sacrifice.
    2. to kill as a sacrificial victim, as by fire; offer in sacrifice.
    3. to destroy by fire.
    LAS you are far too presumptious, PM Harper has a hasn’t burned any Minister’s at the stake recently…as sacrificial lambs.
    The only people dying by fire lately were the unfortunate souls in Lac Megantic
    http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/video/2546352829001
    which tragedy caused even Her Majesty the Queen to check in and offer condolences to Her Quebec subjects.
    Lastly, if as you suggest PM Harper has been shooting his feet, you will no doubt be delighted to note that it was without the ill fated gun registry. I look forward to hearing from the Ministerial ‘mouthpieces’ in the near future as I’m sure they’ll have something a little more cogent and persuasive to say than the blather JT trotted out in this regard.
    Cheers
    Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North”

  6. Speaking of immolation: If Justin Toddler ever becomes PM, Canada will be immolated. A party leader by nepotism becoming PM will be a stake through the heart of Canada as a serious nation.
    Willful blindness on the part of the Leftards prevents them from seeing that their savings are doing better than those in most other countries thanks to the policies of Prime Minister Harper and his government and that our Prime Minister is highly regarded as a statesman in the G-8 countries and amongst their leaders.
    It’s difficult to imagine “PM Justin Trudeau” being able to leverage any gravitas or credibility amongst the other G-8 leaders. The Obamanation might give him a high-five or a thumbs up but other than that …

  7. batb,
    Justine would be Canada’s “Obamanation”…but it won’t happen. I wonder how my good neighbours “so’ o’ the 49th” see that “Hopey Changey Thingy” working out? The many I know are embarASSED !!!
    I say “Shiny Pony” goes back to being a Drama —–.

  9. their savings are doing better than those in most other countries thanks to the policies of Prime Minister Harper
    Wrong. We’re doing better because of Paul Martin’s superior fiscal rectitude.
    It’s so amusing watching conservatives and liberals work up Trudeau into anti-Christ/savior. Truth is, he will probably govern the same as Harper but with saner drug laws. Partisanship is a mental disease.

  10. And, BTW, if you put Candice (Hoeppner) Bergen, Shelley Glover, and Kellie Leitch beside Carolyn Bennett, Hedy Fry, and Judy Sgro … which group is more sane, more articulate, and more competent by any measure?
    It’s a slam dunk.
    The Conservative women, far from being “mouthpieces,” let alone blathering, and at least in one case law-breaking, maniacs, are highly competent, talented, and lively MPs who substantially contribute to the work of Canada’s House of Commons. Unlike the others, who like to swan around and grandstand — though it’s more difficult these days with so few Liberal$ in the House — these women, and their other female CPC Cabinet colleagues, mean business and have a serious grasp of how government policies affect the average Canadian.
    Bennett, Fry, and Sgro, being typical Liberal$, show concern only for partisan special interests.

  11. Correction to above post:
    The Conservative women, far from being “mouthpieces,” rather than blathering, and at least in one case law-breaking, maniacs, are highly competent, talented, and lively MPs who substantially contribute to the work of Canada’s House of Commons.

  13. Wrong. it was Mulroney’s tax increases, particularly deindexing and the GST which broke the back of the deficit. On the spending side, Chretien was the hardliner, not Martin. Martin showed his true colours by opening wide the cash taps when he became PM.

  14. LAS >
    “Truth is, he will probably govern the same as Harper but with saner drug laws”.
    Ah yes of course always the drugs with LAS.
    mmmm and defending pedophiles including Al Qaeda for good measure.

  15. Wrong. it was Mulroney’s tax increases, particularly deindexing and the GST which broke the back of the deficit.
    You’re wrong. You’re just fracking wrong. There were no net tax increases. The GST replaced a manufacturing tax that probably collected more as a %GDP. There was no revenue increase as a %GDP, it was all spending cuts under Martin’s glorious reign. 10% non-interest spending cut total. He became a softy but that doesn’t minimize his time as finance minister. He was the best finance minister of our time.

  16. “We’re doing better because of Paul Martin’s superior fiscal rectitude.”
    Excuse me? The Liberal$ have been out of power since 2006. The CPC has been in power for the past seven years, during which time they have not squandered the good that Paul Martin’s financial acumen accomplished for Canada. Seeing as Paul Martin’s been out of the political loop since then, we can hardly hand him all of the kudos for Canada’s better-than-average financial position.
    I’d like to point out, however, Paul Martin’s cozy relationship with Power Corporation and with the scoundrel Maurice Strong of Power Corporation, Kyoto Protocol, and the Oil-for-Food-scandal fame. I’d also like to point out the fact that Martin’s Canada Steamship Lines (CSL) during the ’90s, at which time Martin was Finance Minister, flew flags of convenience, where safety and labour laws were relaxed to be more “business-friendly,” thus allowing Martin to avoid paying Canadian income tax. Martin was also in Chretien’s cabinet during the time of the AdScam scandal, which included a number of illegalities and cost Canadian taxpayers millions of dollars which have never been repaid, which may be one reason why Judge Gomery did say that the Liberal government operated within a culture of corruption. And then there are Paul Martin’s connections to the Earnscliffe Group. ‘Very interesting cast of characters …
    http://freedominion.com.pa/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=47676
    However much former PM Paul Martin’s fiscal policies have benefited Canada and Canadians, isn’t it unfortunate that he is associated with so many fiscal scandals, all of which have cost Canadians millions? His reputation is severely tarnished.

  17. LAS >
    “….spending cuts under Martin’s glorious reign”
    Paul Martin the Liberal tax evader with a net worth of 225 million and father of “Adscam”/Sponsergate?
    That Paul Martin?
    What a friggen hoot LAS – (pardon the pun), go smoke another joint and think of someone else. Hey maybe it was Bob Marley that saved Canada.

  20. This is Harper’s election team. Not a bad group considering what he has to pick from and the regional realities of cabinet choices.
    The liberal front bench is pretty thin which really doesn’t matter because they are rolling the dice with an unproven populist who’s claim to fame is his fathers name. There really isn’t much there but voters usually don’t demand much. Witness the sorry state of provincial governments across the country.
    So it is now set. Harper’s team against trudeau and mulcair. The liberals must think that mulcair will be a push over in quebec. If he can mount any kind of fight and I think he will, trudeau will be in trouble. Quebeckers know trudeau well and they remember the old man better than this generation of Canadians. He is no automatic winner in PQ.
    Ontario is the wild card. If trudeau has any traction in ON it could be over for Harper. Harper kept his ON team intact anticipating a liberal surge.
    I am loath to underestimate jr. I bet all the money against zero in 2008. Shows you what I know.
    Let the games begin.

  21. Young lad asks “Daddy – where did I get my brains?”
    Father replies “Probably from your mother – I’ve still got mine.”

  22. abtrapper,
    Here in Ontarario I think Premier “2 Moms” will have difficulty with what’s been going on with the aftermath of “Duelin’ Dalton” McSqinty. At least I hope so. The PC’s Tim Hudak doesn’t have all his marbles in the bag…as of yet. And he’s not a “winner” type of person much less much a politician.

  23. Hudak’s greatest asset is Vic Fedeli MPP. If Hudak gains any votes he has Fedeli to thank.
    Back on topic…at first I thought that was Garneau standing next to Trudeau. But then I thought I noticed a resemblance between the two, and it wasn’t Jagger, so possibly a Sinclair?
    Trudeau foiled the question about more women in Cabinet. But of course he will get a pass from the media party.

  24. Which means what, exactly? Do you think Mr. Trudeau, Jr. is going to bring Mr. Martin back as finance minister? And when Mr. Trudeau, Jr. does something untoward from a financial management perspective, we are going to get Mr. Martin in a special televised address to the nation thereafter saying, after he’d specifically signed off on it, “I’m sorry; I wish we had known more…”?
    Besides which, the deficit was slain, over and above what both you and cgh have said (which we know the Conservatives, under even a marginally more competent leader than Kim Campbell would have done anyway), by a debt- and low-exchange rate driven manufacturing boom in Ontario, which came to nought in 2008.
    Your position in defence of the Liberal Party is untenable: they sowed the wind; they have reaped the whirlwind. Leaving aside the national benefit which accrued from the Mulroney years, Paul Martin’s time as finance minister does not excuse either the folly of his Trudeauite Liberal predesessors (including Turner, Chretien, Lalonde, MacEachen, etc.), or Mr. Trudeau, Jr.’s economic and political illiteracy.
    You are seriously hoping against hope. On the other hand, what amazes me about you is your systematically convenient inconsistency: at any given time, you’re for Justin (who’s seriously down in the polls, actually, and falling); then in the next breath, the cover story is Paul Martin (who lost to you know, Stephen Harper) is the saviour! Remember the Liberals! (No, thanks, particularly).
    Yet, I’d say that there is one fundamental question that so-called “libertarians” like yourself need to answer (quite apart from the High River gun confiscation fiasco, to which any normal person was, and is, both opposed and affronted by): what are your recommendations concerning the monetization of Ontario’s public-sector assets?

  25. Of course in addition to PM Paul Martin’s acquiescence to Liberal profligacy; the ‘financial acumen’ also slashed $35-40 billion in provincial health transfers and appropriated $54 billion out of the EI funds to ‘balance the budget’.
    The consequence wound up being the Chaoulli legal case from Quebec which had people dying in the wait lineups to health care; not to mention my own mother being told to wait 12 months for the MRI she needed. But of course not all of us can be hockey or basketball stars…
    LAS’s rose colored Trudeaupian glasses obviously need some focal length adjustment, because plainly he isn’t seeing straight.
    I do not regret putting the boots to that; and driving it from office.
    Cheers
    Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North”

  26. Turd’oh may not have specifically called wimin “mouthpieces”, but he sure mas h3ll was dismissive of them by not speaking about them specifically, U see L-ass et tel, wimin ain’t important enough to lieberals to speak about them as ppl

  27. We’ve come a long way since women were declared persons. It’s time for the Liberals to catch up and stop treating women as battering rams for political purposes. Trudeau wouldn’t know any better, he’s being fed from the same old pot by the puppeteers behind the curtain.

  28. Finally saw the video (I was looking elsewhere)…simpler than I thought. AS with bluetech, I can’t place the person but (to quote that punchline): his face rings a bell. Certainly looked as if was keeping a close rein on Shiny’s marionette strings but didn’t do much of a job. And there is a possibility that the “smarmy” look is that of a Sinclair…but only speculating here. I’m sure one of our sharp commenter’s eyes will find his allusive mane.

  29. Perhaps Shiny Pony should stifle himself for a while and peruse
    what is available under the heading, “Freud and Projection”.

  30. I find it interesting that CTV gives the 15 second sound bite to the leader of a RUMP party!
    Two more years of this and the Lib’s will have to declare the air time as an election donation…

  31. The suggestion that Harper is a one man show running everything and a bully to boot is a media construct bereft of evidence in the real world. No problem finding folk with a different political cudgel to bang wailing they are no longer considered serious by government talking to media folk that got there in no small part due to a friendly relationship with past government pining for yesterday.
    If I was someone that hadn’t got to where I am by my own work and had the teat of government ripped from lips, I might be thinking that was a bully doing it to me.

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