Where my government subsidizes quality time away from my talentless spawn while I haul in a six-figure income;

“We spend between the two kids, on extracurriculars outside the classroom, we’re spending about $10,000 a year on piano and dance and sports supplements. And summer programs… Do you know what summer camp costs?”

If you are struggling to make ends meet on a half-million a year — a 1040 that puts you in the top 2% of Americans — then the problem is you, not the country.
Still this woman, who was never proud of America when her husband was elected to the state legislature or even the United States Senate, whines and whines and whines.
America is, she said, “just downright mean.”

“It’s a bad government and we’ll choose a time to defeat this bad government. You will see. But it will not be at this time where we have summer vacation about to start — not to mention the NHL and NBA playoffs. I don’t think Canadians want that.” – Stephane Dion, May 7, 2008

Have fun in the comments with your own!

Steve Janke;

Is the Liberal Party going to buy this line, or will the caucus tell Stephane Dion publicly condemning opposition parties for opposing is going too far?

TEXAS
Clinton 1,140,944 50%
Obama 1,087,161 48%
And Ohio.
Does anyone else get the impression that had the Clintons redirected even a fragment of the red hot burning lust they exhibit for the acquisition of personal political power to the task of protecting their nation’s interests, there might well be a pair of towers still standing in New York CIty today?
Related! A victory for Clinton or a victory for the VRWC?

Joe Six Pack: “The Greek thing.”
Me; “No, that’s not what I was thinking of”.
JSP: “The Tory staffer who supposedly set up a meeting with some Greeks …”
Me: “No, I don’t mean that – hardly qualified as a scandal.”
JSP: “uhhh…”
Me: “It was bigger than that.”
JSP: “Oh! The Afghan detainee thing!”
Me: “Yes! That’s the one… isn’t it amazing what one dead independent MP can do to clear* the media memory banks?”

A new search function for political pundits.

Your predictions here:
How many seats is Stelmach going to lose?
So…. how long until the Alberta Liberals move forward on that name change thing?
BUT! Don’t count those chickens just yet… “It’s not over yet….”

Via email – “Tonight, there was a vote on an amendment to the Budget that was put forward by Canadas Official Opposition, the Liberal Party of Canada. Only 7 members of the Liberal Party bothered to show up to vote.”
UPDATE: Perhaps they were lost in translation…

“I said over months, many times every day, that we’ll support the budget or we’ll not vote against the budget to a point to make the government falling down if the budget is not detrimental to Canadians too much,”

h/t maz2

Strikes again….

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is moving to sue Liberal Leader Stephane Dion, deputy leader Michael Ignatieff, House leader Ralph Goodale, and the entire Liberal party in relation to last week’s controversy involving the late Independent MP Chuck Cadman.
A notice of the suit, served on the parties at 7 a.m. today, claims the prime minister was libelled in “two devastatingly defamatory articles published at www.liberal.ca entitled ‘Harper Knew of Conservative Bribery’ (Feb. 29, 2008) and ‘Harper Must Come Clean About Allegations of Conservative Bribery, Liberals Say’ (Feb. 28, 2008),” according to the document, signed by Ottawa lawyer Richard Dearden.

And to think we knew him “back when”…
Stephen Taylor has more.

One broken trade agreement at a time…

For people who shrink from competition and think that it’s government’s job to provide and protect — to provide them with well-paying/low-effort jobs and protect the jobs the already have — there is a lot to love in Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, each of whom is barnstorming through Ohio painting the other as someone who condones free trade.
The horror!

Keep cheering for them, lefties. After all, it’s not like your jobs depend on it.

Caption contest!
THE WINNERS
Such as they are.
3. You Are About To Be Bamaboozled.
2. “No, No, THIS is how I want you to catch my farts”
1. Obamagirl! Are those for me??? Are they real???

NAFTA, shafta….

OBAMA’S NAFTA DOUBLE-TALK confirmed. “After reporting on Barack Obama’s dance with the Canadians on NAFTA yesterday, Canadian broadcaster CTV got accused of perpetrating a smear against the Democratic front-runner. They insisted that Obama meant every word he said about overturning the free-trade treaty, and that no one had contacted the Canadian diplomatic corps to reassure them that it was mere demagoguery. CTV responded today by naming names — and suddenly the Obama campaign has grown quiet.” More here from ABC News.
At least we’re learning which bunch of rubes is being fooled. Coming next — an Obama adviser tells the Iraqi government not to pay attention to his troop-withdrawal talk?

Longer version at HotAir.
Heh.

And not in a good way.

h/t Cjunk

Gentlemen – start your tape recorders. Stephane Dion will be on John Gormley Live at 9 am Sask time. Who knows what comedy gold may arise for the youtubing!
(If you miss it, 650 CKOM has archives.)
Update: Darcey grabbed it. (MP3)

h/t

“I hadn’t seen or smelled it yet, but I was about to.”

Chris Horner;

At a rally in College Park, MD, this week, Obama seized the mantle of “hopemonger,” in contrast to those other “mongers” out there. He then proceeded, through three separate stanzas about global warming, to reveal he is also a warmmonger. Apparently, climate change is yet another “change we can believe in.”
For someone who pitches himself as a sainted outsider determined to bring revelatory change to our national politics, Obama’s prescriptions sure sound like tired old inside-the-Beltway nostrums — foretelling impending disaster that only various governmental interventions in the economy can mitigate.
One of his money lines was “we are going to spend billions of dollars on solar, wind, and biodiesel.” Yes. It’s criminal that we haven’t done that yet.
The details of how those billions would be spent were less amusing: “We will hire young people who don’t have a trade and give them a trade making homes more energy efficient, insulating homes, changing light bulbs, reducing our dependence on dirty power plants.” So, the idealistic, modern-day version of the “ask not what your country can do for you” consists of telling slackers that the government will provide windmill and lightbulb-changing jobs after graduation?
That’s not Camelot; it’s the New Deal.

Not convinced?

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