Let’s see if I get this right. Their super-duper brilliant strategy is to now:
1. Scoff at the Constitution;
2. Dismiss Liberal Premiers who want this;
3. Piss off multiple regions who want democratic fairness; and
4. Echo what right-winger losers like Tim Hudak have said about “too many politicians.”
And people wonder why guys like me don’t have anything to do with the federal party anymore.
Wonder no more, etc.
The good news, I suppose, is that they closely resemble asparagus and a tasty roast.
The bad news is that E.T. tried to call home, but someone trapped him a Tupperware container.
Let me refer them to this:
“2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:
Perhaps they should’ve read that before they stepped into court yesterday to be humiliated. It is the supreme statute of the land, after all.
Still looking for CVs for an unnamed firm – knowledge of Queen’s Park, Liberal pedigree. Email me.
Nice column. What it doesn’t address is that, in politics as in life, all of us have a past. As Mr. Rae’s predecessor discovered – as he will discover – no one knows more about his past than the youngsters in the Conservative Research Group. They have already documented, catalogued and digitized every mistake and misstep Bob Rae ever made, from the time he was in diapers.
Everyone has a past, everyone makes mistakes. But Rae’s are on an order of magnitude that preordain the result.
It won’t be pretty.
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Notebook
The Toronto Star
Sat Dec 2 2006
Page: A15
Section: News
Source: STAR STAFF, CANADIAN PRESS
Conservatives’ anti-Rae button hits bottom
The Conservatives seem to have developed a small cottage industry in the distribution of anti-Rae material at this convention.
The buttons just keep on surfacing: “Go for Bob. Go for Broke!” says one. “Call me Bob. Let’s not talk about my past,” says another.
Sometimes, we worry about our fellow Canadians.
Like now, for example. Just a few days ago, the Americans decided to make no decision about the so-called Keystone Pipeline. Their non-decision has effectively scuttled the pipeline for the time being and perhaps for a long time.
Some Canadians reacted to the Keystone un-decision like, well, Keystone Kops. As with the Vaudevillian troupe that bore that name, some folks ran around in circles, colliding into each other, colliding into walls, colliding into microphones.
One of them was newly minted federal Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver. He was shocked. Shocked, I tell you.
He wants them moved out with “force,” quote unquote. That didn’t work out so well last time his cabal tried it.
From a scrum a few minutes ago:
Sun Media reporter: But do you support forcing them out?
Hudak: Absolutely. If they won’t go on their own, I think they need to move to police action.
On the weekend, a fellow Obama fan asked me why I thought our guy may be hooped. I wish I had had this chart to share. It says it better than I did.
That’s not all, of course. If an economic horror of this scale starts to seep into Canada, Harper could be a goner, too. We shall see.
