Told you so
Here’s a Tweet from the CBC’s Julie VanDusen:
“Campaign life coalition says 65 tory mps are pro-life expect a private members bill in Fall to restrict abortion”
Last night, I was chatting with a pro-choice woman who likes some of the stuff Stephen Harper has done. She told me she felt Harper would never re-open the abortion debate.
I suggested this abortion PMB was coming in a Sun column a while ago, and was thereafter roundly mocked by my friends John Snobelen and Monte Solberg. They, too, said it would never happen.
Well, I guess it’s happening, isn’t it?
Oh, and any of you pro-choice women who voted Conservative? Spare the rest of us your expressions of regret, will you?
People get the government they deserve.
Tim Hudak: job killer, cont’d.
Habit-forming politics
I was chatting with a couple folks in the Canadian publishing industry last night, and we were (like everyone else) dissecting last week’s election results. And, particularly, the results as they related to the Liberal Party of Canada.
The continued preoccupation with the Liberals fascinated me. The party has been reduced to a wispy shadow of its former self in every part of the country – but here we are, I said, still talking about them. They have less than three dozen MPs, little fundraising strength, and even less organizational depth. They have no leader, and no unity. But the media were still decamped outside the Liberal caucus meeting space, yesterday afternoon, waiting patiently for someone to come out and talk to them.
As I say, this fascinates me, and you can see ongoing preoccupation with the Grits here and here and here and here and here and here. In fact, seven out of seven of the main stories promoted on the influential National Newswatch site are about the Liberals.
If you’re Jack Layton, this has to drive you bananas. (If you’re Stephen Harper, you’re delighted, because you would prefer the media didn’t exist, or at least never wrote about you.) Why, Layton might say, are the media still so focussed on a political party that has been reduced to a third-place rump? Who cares what they do, and who their leader is?
They’re fair questions. My hunch: the media continue to write about the Liberal Party of Canada out of habit. They grew up with the party; it’s been a fixture in their professional and personal lives. They haven’t yet processed the huge change we all witnessed last Monday night.
What’s your view? Am I right? Comments are open.
Canada Live: Baseless (but fun) Liberal leadership speculation
Unity now
Four million satisfied customers
Since the web site re-jig, and since we started counting in earnest, wk.com has received more than four million visits – 4,050,000, to be precise.
A significant perecentage of those visits belong to people who (a) hate Yours Screwly but (b) can’t keep away, because I am richer, smarter and better-looking than they are.
Four million! Wow! Thanks to you, wk.com regulars!
Tim Hudak: job killer
SFH for Manitoba
Our lead guitarist, Ritalin Boy, is the devilish fellow featured on the SFH poster, below. He’s from Brandon, Man., parts of which are fully under water (his Dad, by the way, was a Conservative cabinet minister, under Dief). At our gig tomorrow night – parts of which I’ll be stepping out on, because Face To Face and Strung Out are at the Phoenix – we will be passing the hat for Manitoba flood relief. Folks there are facing terrible destruction and devastation, and they deserve all the help we can give.
And, if you can make it to the show tomorrow night, please do!
I have a son who is thirteen!
Today. Thirteen! His sister preceded him, so now half the kids are adolescents.
Anyone who would like to explain how I am therefore “not as old as I think” are welcome to do so in comments. You won’t be successful, but my thanks in advance for your efforts.
And happy birthday, eldest son!