More from the non-partisans.

You know, I laughed at the so-called “deep state” when the more virulent on the right brought it up….

“Unmasking is not unprecedented, but unmasking for political purposes … specifically of Trump transition team members … is highly suspect and questionable,” an intelligence source told Fox News. “Opposition by some in the intelligence agencies who were very connected to the Obama and Clinton teams was strong. After Trump was elected, they decided they were going to ruin his presidency by picking them off one by one.”

Via Ace.

Hard budgets and politics

Keep talking, Brad.
Premier Wall, is a pretty good politician as well as an all around nice guy. Well, nice to most.
Saskatchewan’s budget last week was the polar opposite of the NDP budget in Alberta. Personally, I would have preferred an even more thrifty budget, but that really wasn’t in the cards.
No one got a break in Sask’s budget. In a nutshell: PST up a point, a Crown shut down, civil-servant wage rollbacks, rural libraries getting slammed, the cities losing money, farmers losing gas tax exemptions. Everyone is paying, but it’s short term pain for long term gain, a $B deficit is a far-cry from another $10B deficit in Alberta. Premier Wall previously paid down some 40% of the debt when times where good, he’s a nicer Ralph.
With every hard-luck budget comes the political price. The last thing Saskatchewan needs right now is an uptick the Sask NDP’s fortunes and the easiest way to do that is to shift attention west one province.
The implicit message is, “You really don’t want that to happen here, do you?”
No, Premier Wall, no we don’t.

Happy Friday

Green pigeons coming home to roost.
I know the Ontario election is a year away and any recovery from the Liberal policies will take decades, and the Ontario PC party might as well be called the Ontario Liberal party….
Yeah, you’re right, Ontario is screwed, but at least the Liberals won’t be in charge.

Forget Russia

The established bureaucrats and “civil servants” are the enemy.

A former Obama appointee who appears to have confessed to the existence of a concerted effort to surveil the Trump team and hide the findings in the federal bureaucracy ought to be brought before Congress as a witness, Mark Levin said Wednesday night.

From chutzpahticular.
And for the next Conservative gov’t, I hope there has been a staffer, somewhere, who has identified each of the “non-partisan” individuals in this image from after the election.
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We told you so.

Coyne discovers that Liberals are Liberals.
Considering Coyne recently asked sarcastically if anyone has been rounded up over M-103, this is particularly rich:

Well now the Liberals are back, with a new, more attack-proof House Leader, Bardish Chagger, and a new attempt to rewrite House rules in the interest of “efficiency.” Officially it’s just a “discussion paper,” but if so it’s one the government seems peculiarly unwilling to discuss or even explain.

When it’s about singling out a religion for special consideration, it’s a harmless whim. When it’s about the potential encroachment of the Gov’t on the House it’s a sign of impending doom.

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