“The superior man understands what is right,” Confucius observed some 500 years before the birth of Christ, “the inferior man understands what will sell.”
And what “sold,” up until 2009 or so, was the Conservative leader’s undisguised contempt for China and its government.
Why are the Hudak PCs threatening an election just days after the last one, and why are they putting Ontario’s economic stability at risk?
Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
Good enough that this incorrigible Liberal and liberal could vote for her, that’s how good.
To wit:
Hudak suggests Tories may try to trigger election next year (Ont-Minority)
Source: The Canadian Press
Nov 18, 2011 16:40
TORONTO – Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak is suggesting that his party may try to trigger an election next year to put Ontario’s economy back on track.
In an email to the party faithful, Hudak slams Premier Dalton McGuinty for shooting down his idea to force a pay freeze on public sector workers through legislation.
He urges the party to continue working hard so they “will be ready to go into an election next year if necessary to restore Ontario as the economic leader in Canada.”
But the Tories wouldn’t be able to bring down the government on their own.
They hold just 37 seats in the 107-member legislature, which means they’d need the support of the NDP, who have 17 seats.
The Oct. 6 election saw the Liberals reduced to just 53 seats _ one short of a majority government.
INDEX: LABOUR ONTARIO POLITICS
“Mr. Hudak, is [insert complaint] now enough for you to finally defeat the government? When are you going to do that? When are you going to make good on your threat? When? When?” Every press conference. Every release. Everything he does, now – he will be asked about this Historic Blunder™. What an idiot.
And when he doesn’t defeat the government – because he won’t – he’ll look weak, or like he made a Historic Blunder™, or both.
Didn’t know this one was coming, but I’m sure glad it did. God’s a Liberal, etc.
All these Natalie Wood stories today got me thinking about where I was, early Eighties-ish. It being three decades ago, I’m not totally sure. But I’m pretty sure I wasn’t combing through the Entertainment section, looking for updates on Robert Wagner’s career.
No, me and my friends were elsewhere. Memories: the vid below is so perfect, so wonderful, it makes me feel young again, so I thought I’d share it with you. (Scary thought: half of these guys are lawyers, now.)
Spotted by BCL:
What’s noteworthy about this is two-fold. One, it was a letter from Tim Hudak to Edward Kennedy, a white supremacist and recent Ontario PC executive who writes filth like this: “Typical n****r behavior. Concealed carry would have made the outcome much different. Note if the perpetrators had been White, they would have all got the death penalty for a hate crime against n*****s. And the lieberals wonder why a large segment of Whites hate blacks and distrust them. I am surprised the black bastards did not try to rape them, that is standard fare for n*****s.“
Two, even though a form letter, it suggests that Tea Party Tim Hudak wants to plunge the province back into an unnecessary election – at a time when Ontarians want the focus to be jobs, and improving the economy.
Nice catch, BCL. I’d even venture the opinion that this is news, Friday afternoon notwithstanding.
The repeated references to “balls” are disturbing, but worth a read. And, BTW, where did this web site come from?
Quote:
“For the moment, it is a good sign that Mr Monti is being called “the professor”. It’s an indication that the people want him to succeed. Having been a professor myself and having done my time in politics, I would offer only one piece of advice: convince your people that you are doing this not for the banks, not for Europe, not for the bond market, but for them, your fellow countrymen and women. Remember they, not the bond market or the European Union, have the ultimate power. If they believe you are on their side, you can succeed. If they believe you are not on their side, you will fail and they can make your country ungovernable.”
The rest of his Financial Times essay is seemingly aimed at academics-cum-politicians in Greece and Italy, and it’s there if you want to read it. The above paragraph is the only part that references those of us toiling in the colonies.
The bit about the banks was interesting. I recall talking to him, during the 2009 global recession, and suggesting that we go after the banks – they, after all, were the ones who caused the mess in the first place, aided and abetted by laissez-faire conservative governments. Seemed pretty straightforward to me, and the likes of Trudeau and Chretien wouldn’t have hesitated a moment. Ignatieff, however, abjectly refused. His refusal wasn’t ever explained, but a refusal it certainly was.
That’s why the florid prose at the centre, there – “you are doing this not for the banks, not for Europe, not for the bond market, but for them, your fellow countrymen and women” – is a bit of a surprise. I don’t remember calls for that sort of stirring populism ever echoing through the hallways at 409-S, however much Bolsheviks like Ian Davey and I tried. Main Street always trumps Bay/Wall Street, I told him once, while he regarded me as if I was E.T.
Anyway, it’s all part of life’s rich pageant, I suppose. You live and learn. Sometimes you learn way too late.
The Santa Claus parade is on Sunday here in Toronto. Last year only one of my kids would go. Will anyone at all come this year?