35 Replies to “George W. Bush”

  1. Well, sure, now, but when he travels around the country this summer and people get to know him, i mean, really know him…see, he has a kind of quiet, um, inner thingy that people respect, but kind of hate at the same time. It’s tricky. Ask jason cherniak.

  2. Yet even with a completely headless opposition and a hard shift to the middle, the Conservatives still can’t break into majority territory.
    Face it: Harper and Co., despite their best efforts (and your deepest hopes), are merely temporary caretakers of Parliament, keeping the old ship steady until the mainstream Canadian electorate find their next Liberal majority leader.

  4. Dion the twit dropped his drawers with a new tax and just like income tax was, so will be the carbon tax. Once implemented, it stays. Best not to run for PM under the banner: “hey lets have a new tax!” It will compound, idiot.

  5. QE: If the Conservatives had even a smidgen of the support that the Lieberals get from the MSM they would blow the Lieberals right out of this country. The MSM buries every good thing that the Conservative government does and magnifies every pseudo – scandal that the Lieberals try to bring up.I can see by your post that you think this is a good thing and that the 40 million that the Lieberals stole off hard working Canadians is just a small insignificant blip.

  6. “”What’s really disheartening is it’s almost as if everyone’s made up their minds already,” said the polling firm’s Mario Canseco. “Those who actually have something to say about Dion are saying negative things.””
    Uhuh. And people like the troll tell me that the Red Torstar is NOT biased?
    I’d say stick a fork in Steffi as he’s done,but then he would properly want a knife too,and a bun to throw away.

  8. Poor widdle dual citzen Dion even ‘is doog “kyoto” pizzes on his pant leg eets noot izzy be fearless leedar check leest a.. new glasses tres sexy b…. new taxez c… save da planet…. d invite vert footprint guy to soire’ e… tuck t shirt into underware there all ready.
    cheers bubba

  9. Congrats Canada.
    Australia has the same problem at the moment, although Brendan Nelson is much more man than Stephane Dion.
    Now, why doesn’t PMSH wipe off the earth those pigs going after Ezra and if Dion says “non”, then call an election. I’m sure he’ll have a massive majority government.

  10. What’s to hate about Dion?
    He’s the conservative’s best friend! Better a blatantly incompetent Liberal leader to frighten the sheep than a slick talking human impersonator proving his incompetence long after an election, no?

  11. good point justthinkin – the biased pollster can’t breathe life into dion’s support even with some sort of push – unless he’s a liberal who’s anti-dion trying to get his fave rival into the leadership…
    My name on the poll would get more than 10% – an umprecedented number for any major leader ever in North America perhaps?

  12. Fixate all you’d like about the (deservedly) dismal approval ratings of our unelected opposition leader.
    Meanwhile, the real news keeping PMO staffers up at night? Harper’s approval ratings are barely any better than Bush’s.
    Try spinning that fact.

  13. Dion was chosen because this was supposed to be the year of Climate Change and Dion as the Liberal high priest was supposed to usher in a new era of Kyoto.
    Some of the warmest temperatures in living memory were being experiened that December and the early part of January, 2007. Al Gore was set up at the Caens film festival to be the next Oscar winner and a looming Nobel Peace prize winner. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was all ramped up with a series of dire warnings on the planet.
    The only trouble is the climate did not play along. January turned deadly cold and February was not much better. A mild summer arrived instead of a heat wave. Every major storm was pumped into a impending hurricane but none threatened American shores. Fall and Winter have been much more cold than abnormally warm. The fuel prices and the economy became much more of concern the nonevent of global warming.
    Dion, however, remained the Liberal’s high priest of Kyoto. The real issues and the world have simply passed them by.

  14. Canada has been a one-party nation for generations and this one-party whether called Liberal or Progressive Conservative has essentially been similar.
    Centralist and big intrusive government, with a non-competitive economy focused around guaranteed exports to the US. This dependent economy meant that Canada didn’t develop its own entrepreneurial or investor class but operated with its population primarily as a lower middle class.
    Such a population is dependent on big govt rather than private enterprise for everything, from health care, transportation, communication etc. A dependent population votes ‘Liberal’ ie, for the Welfare Statist Government.
    With the post war and 1980’s influx of immigrants, the Liberal govt set up multiculturalism to create dependent blocs of immigrant-voters. Yet another dependent population.
    Canada simply didn’t develop a population prepared to look after itself, to govern itself within small govt and local initiatives. It didn’t develop a population with the financial means to do any of this, for Canadians are among the highest taxed of all developed countries. It didn’t develop a population capable of taking risks – we leave all of that to the Evil Americans.
    We are completely different from the Australians, who took charge of their governance and moved out of the structure where appointed positions dominate elected positions. And the Australians have set up their economy to be competitive in the world market. In Canada, our union dependency means that we can’t compete..example..the automotive industry of Ontario which has, because of unions, priced itself out of competition…and insists that the taxpayer fund it!
    So, it will take time to enable and empower a population to move out of such a dependency, such a reliance on Big Government Looks After Me, such a refusal to be competitive in the world economy.
    Harper’s Conservative government is completely different from the old Liberal/Red Tory mode, and Canadians have to be prepared to take risks, to be independent, to be competitive.
    People like QE, etc, think it’s simply a choice of leaders. It isn’t; it’s a choice of dependency on big govt, on a dysfunctional, non-competitive economy, on bribed and dependent voters..versus..a population prepared to compete in the world market, prepared to take risks, innovative and adaptive. The old mode is no longer functional but it’s very hard to move out of the Liberal Cave.

  15. This is worth blogging about? Hell, my last bowel movement was 70% more popular than Dion and I flushed it.

  16. “And Kate….how come both links go to the same Red Torstar story?”
    My cut and paste function has been sticky lately – keeps dumping previous cuts. Sorry about that – fixed now.

  17. QE,
    Harper the most unpopular PM EVER!!! is going take the next one. Blame everything!!!! I’m with you pal … we MUST!!! tighten our tinfoil hats!!!!!

  18. QE>
    “Try spinning that fact”
    Bush is the current US president; Harper is the current Canadian Prime minister.
    Stephane Dion will never be either!

  19. If Steffi was your uncle or your brother, he’d be only popular with 10% of his own family.
    How Liberals can support such a twerp speaks to their dishonesty. All this BS about him being professorial and principled is comical.
    Backing him up, however only gets worse, with the world’s Top 100 intellectual windbag Iggy and his Communist China buddy Rae.
    Really, the Libs are a sorry-ass bunch.

  22. Lberia >
    Not to say your wrong, but the chart you provide appears to be a generalization for each country and assumes that everyone within each country participates in the same tax based social and benefit programs. This appears to me to lump everyone into a similar taxed advantage.
    For example: A highly paid single person or couple would pay far more of the tax burden than a lower income individual or couple with two children in some countries and not others. They may not take any advantage of child benefits (day care, tax credits) or employment insurance ect.
    The countries listed vary greatly between Single/no kids – Married/2 kids as far as ratio to tax burden – here are a few for example from that chart:
    – Canada 31.6% – 21.5%
    – USA 29.1% – 11.9%
    – Ireland 25.7% – 8.1%
    – Sweden 47.9% – 42.4%
    – France 50.1% – 41.7%
    The point I’m trying make is that this is all over the place considering different benefit systems for individual family situations and the return on those services for the taxed dollar.
    The Canadian retirement benefits CPP & OAS are a complete joke to many of these other systems, France, Sweden or Norway for example along with their elderly & health care. I believe you can’t look at this particular chart’s lumped social benefits as a credible tax guide.
    I think it’s much more appropriate to look at individual income tax country by country such as this chart
    http://www.worldwide-tax.com/
    which lists Canada’s (Marginal tax rate) Federal top income tax rate at 29% + 5% GST + (provincial 10 – 17.5%) *unfortunately does not list individual provincial income taxes on main page.
    What we pay for and what we get in return in my opinion (by this standard) does indeed classify us as one of the highest tax rates of the developed world.

  23. Lberia >
    One thing I will add is that I was shocked to see the VAT/ GST rates other country’s pay for purchased goods. We cry about 5% when Sweden & Denmark pays 25%! The real winner in the tax game is the good ol USA who seem to complain the most about it. God help an American citizen without a pension or decent savings at 65 – I would think……………

  24. Factor in private medical insurance and the good ol USA doesn’t look quite as good in the tax comparison.

  25. Like Barack Obama, Stephan Dion was choosen by a lot of people because he was not your typical politician; unfortunately for the Liberal party of Canada, Stephan Dion lacks the charisma, basic language skills, and common sense of Barack Obama.
    Anyone who sees oil approaching $150/barrel and thinks that it is a good time for a carbon tax is a fool …

  26. QE / ulianov / lberia and whomsover else wishes to discuss PMSH’s approval rating, may I offer this perspective:
    I’m sure that the approval rating of Einstein in Hitler’s Germany would also be very low. Get the point? He who controls the media controls the opinion of the populace.
    As noted above, the MSM is heavily biased in favour of the Liberals and takes every opportunity to diss the Conservatives. Ya, sure, you’ll dispute that, as do others, but them’s the facts. The bias of the American MSM has been clearly documented and research documents can easily be found on the web…research on Canada’s MSM is very limited, but the bias is undoubtedly similar.

  27. “I tink dat by putting car bun tax on da pipples of El Birta and Sass Kat Shoe On we can make da tax on da pipples of ontario less and quebec. more tax on da western pipples will make dis vote for hus.” Borat Dion,” da city pipples do like the tax on da county working pipples to pay for more welfare and in jection sites “. da canadian whit bort will help the cuntry pipples.

  28. Here’s what really surprised me about the story:
    “What’s really disheartening is it’s almost as if everyone’s made up their minds already,” said the polling firm’s Mario Canseco. “Those who actually have something to say about Dion are saying negative things.”
    Oh wait, an employee at a ‘non-partisan’ polling firm feeling sad because the Liberals have tanked, I guess that’s not so surprising after all.

  29. “Factor in private medical insurance and the good ol USA doesn’t look quite as good in the tax comparison.”
    WRONG! Try living in both countries for a while and check it out.
    I’ve just found out that while the great Canadian Healthcare System doesn’t cover prescriptions, the insurance plans the provincial government gets for it’s employees(and employees pay) doesn’t cover much beyond generic asprin. Forget any drug that has come out in the last 10 years.
    In Texas, my monthly medical insurance covered drugs AND was comparable to the Alberta Health/added on coverage.
    TC Douglas still isn’t dead enough but then that is a whole other topic.
    p.s. Who ever said being a leader, especially of a country, was a popularity contest?

  30. lberia…it is clear that “higher education” (presuming you have any) hasn’t done much for you. Your “source” does not show the full tax burden….only personal and payroll taxes essentially. As for your idiotic comment about factoring in private health care costs in the US, maybe you’d like to explain why Canada has so many healthcare refugees heading over the border to the US?

  31. In Texas, my monthly medical insurance covered drugs AND was comparable to the Alberta Health/added on coverage.
    the insurance plans the provincial government gets for it’s employees(and employees pay) doesn’t cover much beyond generic asprin
    Posted by: Texas Canuck at May 23, 2008 10:50 AM
    Who was paying for your medical insurance while you were in Texas, and what provincial government were you refering to regarding the generic aspirin etc.?
    Hugger

  32. I guess Angus Ried isn’t quite as impartial as it would like use to believe. So how can Canadians trust any poll results from this company? Perhaps a rep from Augus REid could explain Mr. Canseco’s comment.

  33. Has this polling firm done any polling in Deyawn’s home country, France? Mahybee he is more popular wid his own pipples? To be fair this company should be forced to do a survey in France.

  34. Da poppalarry heez noting!
    Spoked Arpurr dame ting nud mushstubb Kenjans wit liprljustass crabe vore.
    Honely henlijent pimples grapst me.

  35. trolls
    harper’s popularity is only 34% with a dork like like deyawn at the liberal helm
    well that cuts both ways
    just think how low deyawn would be if harper wuz realy popular, think the liberals could find a way to break into negative popularity numbers?????

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