Which departing MPP(s) were giants within their respective parties, and treated with respect by their leaders – and which one was cruelly stabbed in the back by his leader, and treated like garbage, simply because he was a progressive, and because he opposed the far-right takeover of the party he’s belonged to for his entire adult life?

Kind of a leading question, I know, but I have a point to make.  Which is this: Tim Hudak will say and do anything to get back into power.

Liberal MPP Sandra Pupatello         PC MPP Norm Sterling                      NDP MPP Peter Kormos

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Anyone who knows me will not be surprised, at all, to see the scar on my ever-expanding forehead this morning.  I was walking Roxy Roller the Political Dog™ yesterday, you see, and I walked into a tree.  As friends and family will tell you, “Warren, did you know you’re bleeding?” is a question that gets posed more often than not.

As an added bonus, and for no charge, here is a photo of Roxy regarding me.

Sigh. My owner is a doofus.

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Those of us who worked for Jean Chretien always knew one thing about his schedule: sitting down for interviews with Peter C. Newman wouldn’t be in it.  Newman was enraged by that, and tried to get back at Chretien every chance he got.

Brian Mulroney learned, the hard way, why it is a big mistake to allow Newman and his wee tape recorder into your living room.

Michael Ignatieff and his inner circle are about to learn the same thing. He’ll say one thing, and do another.

Stephen Harper is boring? Not a chance.  I’ll bet he followed Chretien’s lead, and declined Newman’s offer.

Smart decision.

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The Heat are the most pompous, arrogant and detestable sports franchise on Earth. To deal with Canucks-related despair, I am revelling in the Heat’s despair. In this way, the sports universe achieves balance.

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Seriously.

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What we heard during the election was true. They lied. It’s a fact.

The questions that remain, then, are these: does this kind of deceit matter anymore? Shouldn’t it? Are the Conservatives right, when they sneer that you and your neighbours don’t care?

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It’s an old Cheap Trick tune, but I’m reminded of it when I read stories like the one below.  Seems like quite a few ambitious Conservatives don’t expect Stephen Harper to finish his term, no?

“They’ve won a third consecutive election victory and now control the first Conservative majority in 17 years, but Stephen Harper’s Tories have still found something to quarrel about as they gather for a convention in Ottawa Thursday.

The dispute is as old as the Conservative Party and hints at the fault lines in an organization that was only formed in late 2003 when the Red Tories in the Progressive Conservatives put aside their differences to merge with the right wingers in the Canadian Alliance.“

 

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“Tim Hudak says he’ll end the agony, but can’t be believed. Sorry Tim, but it’s true. If the  campaign platform recently released by the Tories was handed in as a project in a first-year finance class, it would be returned with suggestions that the author find another line of interest. Like line dancing; something that doesn’t involve numbers, or adding and subtracting. Mr. Hudak says he’ll raise spending on all the important programs, but make up for it by finding “waste”. We all know that isn’t going to happen. Politicians never find waste. What they find is that if they keep spending money, their chances of re-election improve. The federal Tories have been promising to find waste for five years now, and have jacked up spending every year.

In addition to more spending, Mr. Hudak says he’ll cut taxes, remove the GST from power bills and stop charging consumers an extra fee to help pay off the mammoth debt still owing for past hydro expenses. He says the charge isn’t needed, because the debt has been paid off, even though it hasn’t. As the Star’s Martin Cohn points out, it’s still almost $15 billion; the only way you can argue it’s been paid is if you pretend governments don’t have to pay interest on their borrowing. But they do.

All this will be covered by uncovering “waste.” Sure, okay, if you say so.”

 

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My daughter and I were rockin’ out to the Bats’ take/remake on the Beastie Boys classic this morning. Holy Mother, does this tune ever kick ass!

The lo-fi vid is pretty funny, too. Here’s Canada’s hardest-rockin’ hard rock band:

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Us:

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