UN Watch – Top Rights Prize Nominee Supports Killing Israelis

Uh oh, the Shiny Pony appears to not be as popular as the Media Party would have us all believe.

h/t Brigitte Pellerin

The Joint Committee on Taxation found that raising the tax on millionaires (the so-called Buffet Rule) to 30% federal would raise $5 billion per year.
Worse, if the Democrats passed all of their tax increase wish list – Congress’s Joint Committee on Taxation concluded the best case scenario (if no one changes their behaviour) – would raise $82 billion…..or just 7% of the current deficit.
In short there is simply no possibility that the Fiscal Cliff will be solved without MASSIVE spending cuts. Don’t tell that to a lefty like CNN’s Candy Crowley though, as the math simply does’t fit this idiot’s fantasy….. as she proved on Sunday’s State of the Union when she pitched Tax Hikes Without Even Mentioning Spending Cuts

Dear Michael, we’re so surprised you didn’t stay with us longer. Well, actually not.

The “progressive” leadership style of BC Premier Christy Clark clearly hasn’t struck a positive chord with everyone: (Link fixed)

Premier Christy Clark has tried to put the best face possible on the exodus, saying there is always change in politics and in this case the moves offer her the chance to bring fresh faces into cabinet. But, while virtually all of the departing Liberal MLAs have said their decisions have nothing to do with Ms. Clark’s leadership or the party’s dim electoral prospects, it’s hard not to believe the Liberals’ cratering poll numbers don’t have something to do with at least a few of those decisions.

On his show today, Roy Green had an interesting segment discussing Hilary Rosen’s recent tirade against Ann Romney and all other stay-at-home moms:

What’s interesting is that Ms. Rosen’s narrative was simply a coarser version of much that has been said here in Canada by proponents of the Liberal Party’s “Early Childhood Learning and Care” plan. Anyone who dared disagree with their plan to have as many young children as possible raised during the daytime by unionized childcare workers was roundly criticized by the Far Left as being “uncaring”.
Look no further than the Liberals’ platform on their website (PDF) to page 23 and you’ll read this:

Every child in Canada deserves the best possible start in life and a comprehensive approach to learning in Canada must begin with Early Childhood Learning.

A bit later on is this:

A Liberal government will establish a new Early Childhood Learning and Care Fund that will begin with $500 million in the first year, rising to an annual commitment of $1 billion by the fourth year.
. . .
The long-term goal is a high-quality, affordable early childhood learning and care space for every
Canadian family that wants one.

And the amount provided to families who wish to raise their children themselves? Zero. Social re-engineering at its socialist finest!

Naomi Lakritz, a columnist for the Calgary Herald, epitomizes the totalitarian “progressive” group-think of your intellectual & moral betters (self-declared) amongst the Far-Left in Canada. Case in point is her latest screed vilifying Conscience Rights. Here’s a snippet:

For how can it be anything but wrong to discriminate against other people, to treat them as though they were much less than equal to others, and claim that your conscience somehow declares it right?
It can’t — and yet, the phrase “conscience rights” is being used to describe, for example, the refusal of a marriage commissioner to treat gays and lesbians the same as anyone else, and marry same-sex couples. It is also being applied to the case of a pharmacist who may not want to dispense the morning-after pill.

Lakritz would be a good apparatchik in the Obama regime, who recently declared there to be no problem forcing Catholic churches to betray their own core tenets regarding birth control.
For Lakritz and her ilk, there appears to be no limit to the amount of control the state can impose upon a religion or religious person. Such was the case in the Soviet Union and still is the case in Communist China.
A most interesting question to be posed of both Lakritz and Alison Redford would be this: “Do you support the Wildrose’s contention that Conscience Rights be paramount in Alberta or would you, for example, use the power of the state to force the Muslim owner of a private hall to hold a lesbian couple’s wedding reception, even though he initially refused their business? As another example, suppose that owner was Jewish. Would you force her to rent the hall out to a Neo-Nazi Party convention?”

Lorrie Goldstein is at his very best with this hilarious piece about Canada’s Prince of Self, Justin Trudeau.

… Sometimes I think my mouth isn’t big enough for my brain, sort of like the Brain in Pinky and the Brain.
This is a burden I, Justin Trudeau, must bear — for the sake of the starving children of Africa, who look up to me — so that I can make life better for everyone … who is not Justin Trudeau. (That’s me.) …

h/t ‘batb’
Related: The first hour of Roy Green’s show today was devoted entirely to the Lil’ Pony’s outburst. There were some absolutely hilarious callers and one particularly annoying Leftist. You can listen to it here, beginning at 6:00.

h/t Sammy, with much thanks to Mississauga Matt for uploading the video

Heh.

(What IS in the water in Massachusetts? Besides Mary Jo Kopechne, I mean.)

Based on the current rules, the math for the Old Age Security (OAS) benefits just doesn’t add up. There are simply too many people in the coming years who will be claiming these benefits and not enough younger workers to support them. So one might think that now might be the right time to alter the rules sufficiently to make the math work again. Not if you’re a Liberal and insanely desperate to get back into power again.
Related: From Roy Green’s show on Saturday, this discussion on the subject is well worth a listen (beginning at 7:15).

The campaign possibilities are endless!

The National Post’s John Ivison has a pretty balanced summary of the Liberal Party Convention this past weekend. In it was this interesting snippet:

“A party that’s serious about forming the government understands that polls can impede our view of the future. We learned the most important question is not ‘what do people want today?’ but rather ‘what will people need tomorrow?’. The first question speaks to ‘followership’. The second to leadership and people want leadership,” [Dalton McGuinty] said.

A healthy democracy has at least two strong political parties. The NDP seizing power would be far worse for Canada than the Liberals regaining power one day. In that light, if you were a senior Liberal policy advisor sitting around a table and asked to provide one highly important question that the party needed to ask itself to get back in the ring as a serious contender, what would that question be?

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Our self-proclaimed betters are having a little problem at their convention: Their wireless electronic voting system has crashed.

Perhaps this is a metaphor for the Liberals in general: Up the Creek Without a Paddle!
Update: Jeffrey Simpson is convinced Bob Rae will become the permanent leader of the Liberals.   h/t ‘batb     The National Citizens Coalition isn’t so sure this is a good idea for the country.

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Can the Liberals reinvent themselves … with Sheila Copps or Bob Rae as leader?? Adler chimes in and hilarity ensues!
Never before in history could a pillar of support be more aptly described as a toothpick. Even Coyne isn’t enthusiastic.
Still, some are optimistic that enough hyphenated identity groups can be strung together for another grasp at power!   Note: While watching the video at the last link, does this keep running through your head? Could someone encourage Ezra Levant to interview/debate this pair? Please!!!
Update: For those interested in a good laugh, you can follow Kady O’Malley’s live blogging of the 2012 Liberal Convention. Here’s a sampling (read from the bottom) :

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The “enlightened” Bob Rae has pressed the flesh up north. And what did he conclude? That more dependency and continued no accountability is what the people of Attawapiskat need. What a cynical, uncaring man he is.
Two quotes of Albert Einstein come to mind:

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.