First Liberal – “I think we have them on the run, yes?”
Second Liberal – “That bully broke my glasses.” **
65 Replies to “Overheard Outside A Liberal Caucus Meeting”
Quick – get the duct tape!
As certain as night follows day.
Aizlynne, the correct tape for use on nerd glasses is white medical tape. Never duct tape.
Use of duct tape would indicate a certain resourcefulness and preparedness. Completely inappropriate under the circumstances.
funny some lieberals are backtracking faster than a fat boy on a unicycle.
Heard through the bunker wall outside a Liberal caucus meeting.
“Take no prisoners.
No one here gets out alive.
Pass the grape Kool Aid Stephane and we’ll toast the Coalition. Don’t worry, it’s good, we tried it on Kyoto first.”
The great thing about such disciplined party solidarity at a time like this is that the whole thing can go to the bottom all at once.
Overheard Outside the Communist Party of Canada HQ
Yesterday: “That Michaëlle Jean is a fine woman, an immigrant, and a progressive thinking person.”
Today: “What a BIATCH!!! She’s no damn better than Stephen Hitler! What a stupid moron she is to take her marching orders from him. This is the absolute worst day in the history of Canada.”
Overheard Outside of CBC News HQ
Please just read above!
Dion and the “Coalitionistas” remind me of the Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Even chickens run around for a while after having their heads chopped off.
phantom
don’t be denigrating nerds, they are LIEBERALS, not nerds
and on another note, once one has taken the step it is easier for others to follow:-)))
The CBC should be shaking. Imagine how bad their coverage has been even by MSM standards. If Harper does not go after them the first chance he has when he gets the majority, he is an idiot. They deserve to be liquidated ASAP.
Edward Teach…..your link is hilarious!
There was a bridge closed today between Gatineau and Ottawa. I want to be the first to say it was political. The story is that inspectors discovered the base may be unstable or some such thing. Very convenient timing for such a closure, when provincial governments are begging for infrastructure funding and there is an election in Quebec and the coalition thing. Lots of government workers depend on that bridge to get to work and if they weren’t in favour of more infrastructure funding they are now.
The closing was political. The bureaucracy is infested with socialists and they will use any means necessary, including closing down bridges, to get the taxpayer loot they lust over.
It was not a fun day at work for us few Conservatives in the public service in Ottawa today. I got in arguments, plural, with my PSAC co-workers (I’m contract); I gave better than I got, but I’m still outnumbered like 100 to 1. In the decade plus I’ve been in Ottawa this is the worst I’ve ever seen it.
Anybody able to think a bit should see the nonsense of the coalition premise about the economy. They want Harper to take measures like other countries are taking to address the economic crisis, while other countries wish they were in Canada’s strong economic position already. And nobody’s talking about the proactive measures alreday taken to position Canadians to better weather this economic storm.
Think about this – It seems to be known that Jack Layton started this thing when he approached Gilles Duceppe with the idea of forming a coalition to bring down the government if the Liberals would cooperate, BEFORE the election last October. Layton knows that the NDP by themselves will never form the government of Canada. The current events are an NDP scheme to grab power, but sneeking in under cover of a Liberal leader. The motivation of the Block to join in on this is totally transparent and need no further comment.
And it gets better – Bob Rae, living most of his life in the NDP philosophy so much as to become the NDP premier of Ontario and while there nearly bankrupting the province, suddenly decides he is really a Liberal and runs and wins a seat as a federal Liberal MP. Now Bob Rae is a candidate for leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada, go figure. Can a political animal really change its stripes?
What’s next is really scary – With Bob Rae as Liberal leader at a time in the future when the Liberals return to a respectable minority, he says to Jack Layton, we are really the same, let’s join ourselves into one party, maybe the Liberal Democratic Party of Canada, and Jack, you can be Minister of Finance, and Defence, and Foreign Affairs, etc. Oh, and yes, Elizabeth May (never having been elected to anything) I am appointing to the Senate and making Environment Minister because she tried to help us in 2008.
You can never trust a politician that changes colours.
Zog,
I’ll feel better when/if some Liberal heavyweights come forward. Karygiannis is less than nothing.
I find it interesting that, prior to today, the Opposition kept saying that people don’t elect a PM, they elect an MP, and the PM is simply the leader of the party with the most seats, downplaying the fact that people didn’t want Dion as PM.
TODAY, the Opposition are focusing entirely on Harper, saying that Harper must go as the PM and that the Conservatives need a new leader. This is DOUBLESPEAK. Harper is the leader of the Conservative Party.
Instead of obsessing about who is leading the Conservative Party, they should clean up their own mess and think about who is leading the Liberals and the “coalition,” should it continue to exist.
Unfortunately, the Opposition’s obsessive hatred of Harper is distracting them from cooperating properly within our system of governance. Now they just look like they have a vendetta against Harper. They look very small, indeed.
While Harper hides behind the Governor General’s skirts. No wonder Conservatives so easily become chickenhawks-it comes naturally.
Get lost, Manny the Troll. If a Liberal-appointed, Radio-Canada ex-employee can see common sense, so (maybe) can you. My vote counts as equal to Dion’s, but I didn’t try to stage a coup when my party lost. I accepted it, so can he – if he is man enough.
Hey manny……check this out. And it’s from that radical right wing news organization…the CBC.
“The Conservatives appear to have won the initial public relations war surrounding the current impasse on Parliament Hill, during one of the most chaotic weeks in Canadian political history, a new EKOS poll conducted for the CBC suggests.
Respondents in the two-day automated telephone survey conducted Tuesday and Wednesday were asked: “If an election were held tomorrow, which party would you vote for?”
According to the poll, Stephen Harper’s Conservatives received 44 per cent of respondents’ support, up from the 37.6 per cent support the Tories received in the federal election that returned them to Ottawa with another minority government just seven weeks ago.
The results suggest support for Stéphane Dion’s Liberals is down two percentage points from the election with 24 per cent of respondents’ support, while the New Democrats are down almost four percentage points at 14.5 per cent support.”
Check and checkmate.
Would that be sponge bob, or sideshow bob??
You’re right, manny, we should have an election. The sooner the better.
Don’t blame, Manny. His lil’ mind has been brainwashed by years of being plugged into the different outlets of CBC News.
Here’s an example: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/12/04/constitution-expert.html
The constitutional expert they dug up feels that the GG’s decision is a “dangerous precedent”. Yeah, right.
Hearing such things is manna from heaven for the narrow minded world view of Manny and his fellow Kanadians.
I still find myself breaking into laughter at the thought of the Socialist Separatist Idiots coalition and wished they had a chance at governance. But such expensive comedy would come at too tragic a price overall.
Still whenever a Liberal comes to your door for the next election cycle you can look behind him and ask where his Taliban friend is and does he have a written permission slip from the separatists.
If this grab for power does fall apart, it is all over for the LPC. In fact it was probably all over for the LPC prior to this, hence the action.
Realistically, the LPC is simply not able to fight an election now, or in the next 4 years – stricly from a financial point of view (never mind public support)
That would/will give Harper a relatively free hand to run government during that time. I would say that in 4 years it would be very possible that the Tories would win a majority.
That puts the Libs out to pasture for at least the next 8 years, thus scaring the shit out of the Lib power elite.
8 years for the Libs without being able to appoint their surrogates to the levers of power throught Canadian society – particularly the senate, judiciary and public service.
If they didn’t do it now, and time it so the electorate had no say in the matter, they were (and maybe are now) finished their decades long social re-engineering of Canada.
As Ottawa Tory has mentioned, you can expect a whole bunch of interference from the bureacracy as a result. That is one of the biggest mistakes that Mulroney made was not to clean house in the civil service. The “entitlees” are getting nervous.
As for the GG setting dangerous precedent by not allowing the coalition to take over, consider the precedent if she does.
IT will eliminate minority governments from being ever being possible again. If she does not it will change the very face of our democracy at every electoral level.
Should she allow this, instead of the 2nd, 3rd and fourth place parties being the losers of the election, their policies rejected by the electorate, they will simply band together, immediately overthrow the elected
government, declare themselves the winniers, and implement the same policies the public rejected.
Election losers will now automatically become election winners, thier losing policies becoming the legislative platform of the replacement (and unremoveable) coalition government.
Not sending this unholy coalition back to the electorate will change the face of our Parliamentary system forever. Surely this would override whatever technicalities and interpretations that the coalition is resting
its fortunes on.
So now there are reports that Laytons mommy is upset with how the coalition has been portrayed. Tough. Maybe Laytons mommy should take her little boy behind the woodshed and put the cane to the little creep.
oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive. : Walt Scott
dat his not fair : Borat Dion
“cutting taxes doesnt put money in peoples pockets”
Backdoor Jack
Respondents in the two-day automated telephone survey conducted Tuesday and Wednesday were asked: “If an election were held tomorrow, which party would you vote for?”
According to the poll, Stephen Harper’s Conservatives received 44 per cent of respondents’ support, up from the 37.6 per cent support the Tories received in the federal election that returned them to Ottawa with another minority government just seven weeks ago.
The results suggest support for Stéphane Dion’s Liberals is down two percentage points from the election with 24 per cent of respondents’ support, while the New Democrats are down almost four percentage points at 14.5 per cent support
shut down until jan 26. good. the gg is not a total fool.
Well I hope the Conservatives pick up seats elsewhere cuz they sure aren’t going to get many in Quebec. And for sure the West Island is still going to vote Liberal because they can’t get out of the habit, even when the Liberal Party has had an operation to become separatist.
Still, in an ideal world it would have been nice to see the West pick up its marbles and tell us all to take a flying leap.
“it would have been nice to see the West pick up its marbles and tell us all to take a flying leap.”
~Nicola Timmerman
That could still happen.
After this little eye opener at the end of 2008 all it would take is an election with similar results to the one in October and the West will say that mere sentimentality isn’t worth staying in Canada and having our economic future under imminent threat.
Ottawa tory —“It was not a fun day at work for us few Conservatives in the public service in Ottawa today. I got in arguments, plural, with my PSAC co-workers (I’m contract); I gave better than I got, but I’m still outnumbered like 100 to 1. In the decade plus I’ve been in Ottawa this is the worst I’ve ever seen it.”— I also work in a gov’t enviroment. Unfortunately,I have a gaggle of ‘truthers’ to go along with the civil servants.It is ‘piling on’ every day.I know what you are going through. Today though, the bosses were nice to me,not a good sign. Hang in,being popular is way over-rated.
Three are backing out already… the guy from Guelph backed out last night.
But I don’t know… I think I would’ve taken the hit Monday and called and election Tuesday.
I am making a list and checking it twice of any MP of any stripe that comments along the lines..”There is much to be done , we must concentrate on the econony”etc. Meanwhile let Rae et al hold their breath and turn blue, stamp their little left feet, while the adults get to work. It is patently clear that this deal was struck before the election…and I as a voter take that as a personal slap in the face.
Don’t worry it is coming.As Mark Steyn explained everybody in the west knows that Quebec will never vote to separate themselves from the gravy train.Westerners however will not take 40 years to unhitch the locomotive from the manure wagon of the east.(And I was born there Quebec that is)
Nicola,
The day ain’t over yet!
Here’s another poll for the “coalitionista” losers.
OTTAWA — Canadians overwhelmingly believe Stephen Harper is the best prime minister for the economic times, according to a new poll done exclusively for Canwest News Service and Global National.
Pollster Ipsos Reid asked Canadians who would “best be able to manage Canada’s economy during these troubling times” and three of five — or 59% — named Mr. Harper over a coalition headed by Liberal Leader Stephane Dion.”
Check and checkmate
Little known Constitutional Amendment.
Canadian Prime Ministers from outside Quebec MUST NOT govern for a period longer than 9 months unless they are in a minority position. Canadian Prime Ministers from outside Quebec and Ontario MUST ALWAYS be in a minority position, and for no longer than a maximum 2 years.
Prime Ministers from the West, and in particular, Alberta, must adhere to the above conditions, and in addition; the Senate MUST be Liberal majority, the Supreme Court completely appointed by the Liberal Party, the Bureaucracy, the Public Service, Unions, University professors and the Media must be united in opposition.
I posted this over at Macleans (O’Malleys blog)and one of the more informed commentators asked me 3 times for documented evidence. Maybe I have a career in writing Canadian Constitutional amendments.
John Luft: Charles Adler rants about your comment here: http://chedam.corusradionetwork.com/dynamic/dynamic_audiovault_process.asp?dt=20081204_14
Tune to 34:00.
Prediction: The MSM will now focus on Stephen Harper “clinging to power” and “what will happen if he doesn’t get a majority in the next election”. Let me correct that: They will be OBSESSED by it.
P.S. CKNW’s current afternoon guy, Gord MacDonald is having a hissy fit about recent events, focusing 99% of his HATE on Harper. Direct Quote: “Conservatives, face it. Stephen Harper is done. Finished. Get another leader!”
E. Teach, thank you for the link. I sat here and laughed for at least two minutes.
Manny, go take a look at Mr. Teach’s link. I think it applies to you.
The rest of you, dig as deep as you can into your pockets. We now have a PR war to finance…
Robert W…..which comment?
how about we all chip in a couple of bucks so manny can ditch the Rabbit ears “cbc” and get some cable tv.
John, your quote about the poll. My perception is that the story you were quoting is a different way of reflecting these figure perhaps: http://pelalusa.blogspot.com/2008/12/those-unbiased-university-professors.html
I hope that everyone on here realizes that all we’ve gained is a temporary reprieve. One thing it will do is give people a false reassurance that “we’ve won”. I bet you that it will kill the numbers for the Saturday rallies.
And then watch the despicable media go on overdrive to destroy Stephen Harper. They’ll be like rabid dogs seething with, “We destroyed Sarah Palin, now we’ll get you too, Harper!”
The 2nd worst kind of loser is a run-of-the-mill Radical Leftist. The #1 worst kind of loser is a Radical Leftist in the MSM.
Jack and Gilles snuck up the Hill to try to steal the power
Dragging little Steffie along like he could save the hour
A caolition they they did form to try and unseat Harper
But in the end it would appear that Stephan was much sharper!
Manny you might want to consider withdrawing gracefully – you got creamed today.
From the Fifer (paraphrase);
[Apparently there was shouting directed at both Stephane Dion and Michael Ignatieff when they suggested that they should look at the Conservative budget before deciding whether to vote against it.]
Tantrum.
Laying on floor screaming.
Poor losers.
Fearing job loss.
Non existent resume.
Strike out at anyone.
Entitled to entitlements.
Blinded by rage.
WHAT !! EKOS – PMSH 59% approcal now !!??
Quick – get the duct tape!
As certain as night follows day.
Aizlynne, the correct tape for use on nerd glasses is white medical tape. Never duct tape.
Use of duct tape would indicate a certain resourcefulness and preparedness. Completely inappropriate under the circumstances.
Here is an important message for those of you who still support the Liberal/NDP/Bloc coalition.
funny some lieberals are backtracking faster than a fat boy on a unicycle.
Heard through the bunker wall outside a Liberal caucus meeting.
“Take no prisoners.
No one here gets out alive.
Pass the grape Kool Aid Stephane and we’ll toast the Coalition. Don’t worry, it’s good, we tried it on Kyoto first.”
The great thing about such disciplined party solidarity at a time like this is that the whole thing can go to the bottom all at once.
Overheard Outside the Communist Party of Canada HQ
Yesterday: “That Michaëlle Jean is a fine woman, an immigrant, and a progressive thinking person.”
Today: “What a BIATCH!!! She’s no damn better than Stephen Hitler! What a stupid moron she is to take her marching orders from him. This is the absolute worst day in the history of Canada.”
Overheard Outside of CBC News HQ
Please just read above!
Dion and the “Coalitionistas” remind me of the Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Even chickens run around for a while after having their heads chopped off.
phantom
don’t be denigrating nerds, they are LIEBERALS, not nerds
and on another note, once one has taken the step it is easier for others to follow:-)))
The CBC should be shaking. Imagine how bad their coverage has been even by MSM standards. If Harper does not go after them the first chance he has when he gets the majority, he is an idiot. They deserve to be liquidated ASAP.
Edward Teach…..your link is hilarious!
There was a bridge closed today between Gatineau and Ottawa. I want to be the first to say it was political. The story is that inspectors discovered the base may be unstable or some such thing. Very convenient timing for such a closure, when provincial governments are begging for infrastructure funding and there is an election in Quebec and the coalition thing. Lots of government workers depend on that bridge to get to work and if they weren’t in favour of more infrastructure funding they are now.
The closing was political. The bureaucracy is infested with socialists and they will use any means necessary, including closing down bridges, to get the taxpayer loot they lust over.
It was not a fun day at work for us few Conservatives in the public service in Ottawa today. I got in arguments, plural, with my PSAC co-workers (I’m contract); I gave better than I got, but I’m still outnumbered like 100 to 1. In the decade plus I’ve been in Ottawa this is the worst I’ve ever seen it.
Anybody able to think a bit should see the nonsense of the coalition premise about the economy. They want Harper to take measures like other countries are taking to address the economic crisis, while other countries wish they were in Canada’s strong economic position already. And nobody’s talking about the proactive measures alreday taken to position Canadians to better weather this economic storm.
Think about this – It seems to be known that Jack Layton started this thing when he approached Gilles Duceppe with the idea of forming a coalition to bring down the government if the Liberals would cooperate, BEFORE the election last October. Layton knows that the NDP by themselves will never form the government of Canada. The current events are an NDP scheme to grab power, but sneeking in under cover of a Liberal leader. The motivation of the Block to join in on this is totally transparent and need no further comment.
And it gets better – Bob Rae, living most of his life in the NDP philosophy so much as to become the NDP premier of Ontario and while there nearly bankrupting the province, suddenly decides he is really a Liberal and runs and wins a seat as a federal Liberal MP. Now Bob Rae is a candidate for leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada, go figure. Can a political animal really change its stripes?
What’s next is really scary – With Bob Rae as Liberal leader at a time in the future when the Liberals return to a respectable minority, he says to Jack Layton, we are really the same, let’s join ourselves into one party, maybe the Liberal Democratic Party of Canada, and Jack, you can be Minister of Finance, and Defence, and Foreign Affairs, etc. Oh, and yes, Elizabeth May (never having been elected to anything) I am appointing to the Senate and making Environment Minister because she tried to help us in 2008.
You can never trust a politician that changes colours.
Zog,
I’ll feel better when/if some Liberal heavyweights come forward. Karygiannis is less than nothing.
I find it interesting that, prior to today, the Opposition kept saying that people don’t elect a PM, they elect an MP, and the PM is simply the leader of the party with the most seats, downplaying the fact that people didn’t want Dion as PM.
TODAY, the Opposition are focusing entirely on Harper, saying that Harper must go as the PM and that the Conservatives need a new leader. This is DOUBLESPEAK. Harper is the leader of the Conservative Party.
Instead of obsessing about who is leading the Conservative Party, they should clean up their own mess and think about who is leading the Liberals and the “coalition,” should it continue to exist.
Unfortunately, the Opposition’s obsessive hatred of Harper is distracting them from cooperating properly within our system of governance. Now they just look like they have a vendetta against Harper. They look very small, indeed.
While Harper hides behind the Governor General’s skirts. No wonder Conservatives so easily become chickenhawks-it comes naturally.
manny – BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! BWA BWA BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Get lost, Manny the Troll. If a Liberal-appointed, Radio-Canada ex-employee can see common sense, so (maybe) can you. My vote counts as equal to Dion’s, but I didn’t try to stage a coup when my party lost. I accepted it, so can he – if he is man enough.
Hey manny……check this out. And it’s from that radical right wing news organization…the CBC.
“The Conservatives appear to have won the initial public relations war surrounding the current impasse on Parliament Hill, during one of the most chaotic weeks in Canadian political history, a new EKOS poll conducted for the CBC suggests.
Respondents in the two-day automated telephone survey conducted Tuesday and Wednesday were asked: “If an election were held tomorrow, which party would you vote for?”
According to the poll, Stephen Harper’s Conservatives received 44 per cent of respondents’ support, up from the 37.6 per cent support the Tories received in the federal election that returned them to Ottawa with another minority government just seven weeks ago.
The results suggest support for Stéphane Dion’s Liberals is down two percentage points from the election with 24 per cent of respondents’ support, while the New Democrats are down almost four percentage points at 14.5 per cent support.”
Check and checkmate.
Would that be sponge bob, or sideshow bob??
You’re right, manny, we should have an election. The sooner the better.
Don’t blame, Manny. His lil’ mind has been brainwashed by years of being plugged into the different outlets of CBC News.
Here’s an example: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/12/04/constitution-expert.html
The constitutional expert they dug up feels that the GG’s decision is a “dangerous precedent”. Yeah, right.
Hearing such things is manna from heaven for the narrow minded world view of Manny and his fellow Kanadians.
I still find myself breaking into laughter at the thought of the Socialist Separatist Idiots coalition and wished they had a chance at governance. But such expensive comedy would come at too tragic a price overall.
Still whenever a Liberal comes to your door for the next election cycle you can look behind him and ask where his Taliban friend is and does he have a written permission slip from the separatists.
If this grab for power does fall apart, it is all over for the LPC. In fact it was probably all over for the LPC prior to this, hence the action.
Realistically, the LPC is simply not able to fight an election now, or in the next 4 years – stricly from a financial point of view (never mind public support)
That would/will give Harper a relatively free hand to run government during that time. I would say that in 4 years it would be very possible that the Tories would win a majority.
That puts the Libs out to pasture for at least the next 8 years, thus scaring the shit out of the Lib power elite.
8 years for the Libs without being able to appoint their surrogates to the levers of power throught Canadian society – particularly the senate, judiciary and public service.
If they didn’t do it now, and time it so the electorate had no say in the matter, they were (and maybe are now) finished their decades long social re-engineering of Canada.
As Ottawa Tory has mentioned, you can expect a whole bunch of interference from the bureacracy as a result. That is one of the biggest mistakes that Mulroney made was not to clean house in the civil service. The “entitlees” are getting nervous.
As for the GG setting dangerous precedent by not allowing the coalition to take over, consider the precedent if she does.
IT will eliminate minority governments from being ever being possible again. If she does not it will change the very face of our democracy at every electoral level.
Should she allow this, instead of the 2nd, 3rd and fourth place parties being the losers of the election, their policies rejected by the electorate, they will simply band together, immediately overthrow the elected
government, declare themselves the winniers, and implement the same policies the public rejected.
Election losers will now automatically become election winners, thier losing policies becoming the legislative platform of the replacement (and unremoveable) coalition government.
Not sending this unholy coalition back to the electorate will change the face of our Parliamentary system forever. Surely this would override whatever technicalities and interpretations that the coalition is resting
its fortunes on.
So now there are reports that Laytons mommy is upset with how the coalition has been portrayed. Tough. Maybe Laytons mommy should take her little boy behind the woodshed and put the cane to the little creep.
oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive. : Walt Scott
dat his not fair : Borat Dion
“cutting taxes doesnt put money in peoples pockets”
Backdoor Jack
Respondents in the two-day automated telephone survey conducted Tuesday and Wednesday were asked: “If an election were held tomorrow, which party would you vote for?”
According to the poll, Stephen Harper’s Conservatives received 44 per cent of respondents’ support, up from the 37.6 per cent support the Tories received in the federal election that returned them to Ottawa with another minority government just seven weeks ago.
The results suggest support for Stéphane Dion’s Liberals is down two percentage points from the election with 24 per cent of respondents’ support, while the New Democrats are down almost four percentage points at 14.5 per cent support
shut down until jan 26. good. the gg is not a total fool.
manny – that’s Mr. Robert to you buddy.
It’s hilarious, I was looking at my Liberal MP’s website and she’s trying to deny the Bloc are part of the coalition, even though there’s a press release right under talking about the agreement with the bloc.
http://dailysaltshaker.blogspot.com/2008/12/liberals-really-think-we-are-stupid.html
Well I hope the Conservatives pick up seats elsewhere cuz they sure aren’t going to get many in Quebec. And for sure the West Island is still going to vote Liberal because they can’t get out of the habit, even when the Liberal Party has had an operation to become separatist.
Still, in an ideal world it would have been nice to see the West pick up its marbles and tell us all to take a flying leap.
“it would have been nice to see the West pick up its marbles and tell us all to take a flying leap.”
~Nicola Timmerman
That could still happen.
After this little eye opener at the end of 2008 all it would take is an election with similar results to the one in October and the West will say that mere sentimentality isn’t worth staying in Canada and having our economic future under imminent threat.
Ottawa tory —“It was not a fun day at work for us few Conservatives in the public service in Ottawa today. I got in arguments, plural, with my PSAC co-workers (I’m contract); I gave better than I got, but I’m still outnumbered like 100 to 1. In the decade plus I’ve been in Ottawa this is the worst I’ve ever seen it.”— I also work in a gov’t enviroment. Unfortunately,I have a gaggle of ‘truthers’ to go along with the civil servants.It is ‘piling on’ every day.I know what you are going through. Today though, the bosses were nice to me,not a good sign. Hang in,being popular is way over-rated.
Three are backing out already… the guy from Guelph backed out last night.
But I don’t know… I think I would’ve taken the hit Monday and called and election Tuesday.
I am making a list and checking it twice of any MP of any stripe that comments along the lines..”There is much to be done , we must concentrate on the econony”etc. Meanwhile let Rae et al hold their breath and turn blue, stamp their little left feet, while the adults get to work. It is patently clear that this deal was struck before the election…and I as a voter take that as a personal slap in the face.
Don’t worry it is coming.As Mark Steyn explained everybody in the west knows that Quebec will never vote to separate themselves from the gravy train.Westerners however will not take 40 years to unhitch the locomotive from the manure wagon of the east.(And I was born there Quebec that is)
Nicola,
The day ain’t over yet!
Here’s another poll for the “coalitionista” losers.
OTTAWA — Canadians overwhelmingly believe Stephen Harper is the best prime minister for the economic times, according to a new poll done exclusively for Canwest News Service and Global National.
Pollster Ipsos Reid asked Canadians who would “best be able to manage Canada’s economy during these troubling times” and three of five — or 59% — named Mr. Harper over a coalition headed by Liberal Leader Stephane Dion.”
Check and checkmate
Little known Constitutional Amendment.
Canadian Prime Ministers from outside Quebec MUST NOT govern for a period longer than 9 months unless they are in a minority position. Canadian Prime Ministers from outside Quebec and Ontario MUST ALWAYS be in a minority position, and for no longer than a maximum 2 years.
Prime Ministers from the West, and in particular, Alberta, must adhere to the above conditions, and in addition; the Senate MUST be Liberal majority, the Supreme Court completely appointed by the Liberal Party, the Bureaucracy, the Public Service, Unions, University professors and the Media must be united in opposition.
I posted this over at Macleans (O’Malleys blog)and one of the more informed commentators asked me 3 times for documented evidence. Maybe I have a career in writing Canadian Constitutional amendments.
For someone who doesn’t know anything about the politics up there in Canada, is this Wikipedia summary accurate enough?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Canadian_parliamentary_dispute
John Luft: Charles Adler rants about your comment here: http://chedam.corusradionetwork.com/dynamic/dynamic_audiovault_process.asp?dt=20081204_14
Tune to 34:00.
Prediction: The MSM will now focus on Stephen Harper “clinging to power” and “what will happen if he doesn’t get a majority in the next election”. Let me correct that: They will be OBSESSED by it.
P.S. CKNW’s current afternoon guy, Gord MacDonald is having a hissy fit about recent events, focusing 99% of his HATE on Harper. Direct Quote: “Conservatives, face it. Stephen Harper is done. Finished. Get another leader!”
E. Teach, thank you for the link. I sat here and laughed for at least two minutes.
Manny, go take a look at Mr. Teach’s link. I think it applies to you.
The rest of you, dig as deep as you can into your pockets. We now have a PR war to finance…
Robert W…..which comment?
how about we all chip in a couple of bucks so manny can ditch the Rabbit ears “cbc” and get some cable tv.
John, your quote about the poll. My perception is that the story you were quoting is a different way of reflecting these figure perhaps: http://pelalusa.blogspot.com/2008/12/those-unbiased-university-professors.html
I hope that everyone on here realizes that all we’ve gained is a temporary reprieve. One thing it will do is give people a false reassurance that “we’ve won”. I bet you that it will kill the numbers for the Saturday rallies.
And then watch the despicable media go on overdrive to destroy Stephen Harper. They’ll be like rabid dogs seething with, “We destroyed Sarah Palin, now we’ll get you too, Harper!”
The 2nd worst kind of loser is a run-of-the-mill Radical Leftist. The #1 worst kind of loser is a Radical Leftist in the MSM.
Jack and Gilles snuck up the Hill to try to steal the power
Dragging little Steffie along like he could save the hour
A caolition they they did form to try and unseat Harper
But in the end it would appear that Stephan was much sharper!
Manny you might want to consider withdrawing gracefully – you got creamed today.
From the Fifer (paraphrase);
[Apparently there was shouting directed at both Stephane Dion and Michael Ignatieff when they suggested that they should look at the Conservative budget before deciding whether to vote against it.]
Tantrum.
Laying on floor screaming.
Poor losers.
Fearing job loss.
Non existent resume.
Strike out at anyone.
Entitled to entitlements.
Blinded by rage.
WHAT !! EKOS – PMSH 59% approcal now !!??