This is the bottom line: to deliver on his tax cut, he will have to cut health care and education.

He doesn’t want you to know that.  But that’s what he would have to do.

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I love VeeDubs (they’re all I drive), and I love Super Bowl ads.  Here’s the first to be broadcast this year.   A classic.

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My God, my God, why have you forsaken us?

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I survey the snow-bound streets of Yorkville, and make a heart-felt plea to His Worship.

That is a big snow-covered rock behind me, by the way. It cost $250,000. Barbara Hall did it.

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As the story makes clear (click the graphic, above), the Liberals can credibly pick up quite a few seats in the writ – and with no more than an effective (but not spectacular) campaign effort.  That could lift them to 100 seats, mainly at the Cons’ expense.  The Reformatory brain trust know this.  And that’s why, again, I don’t see a campaign happening anytime soon.

You, however, may have a different view (and usually do).  Comments are open!

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Whatever you do, wimpy Toronto politicians, don’t do this.  It’s been more than a decade, and Montrealer pals still won’t let me forget the shame.

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Appropos of nothing, here’s the boys cranking up ‘Liar.’  Age becomes them.

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My friend Stefan is quite the Twitterer.  It’s interesting.

• October 3, 2010: “Rossi can’t read a simple spreadsheet. Can’t add.”
• October 1, 2010: Rossi “resorts to outright lies in a bid to score cheap shot.”
• September 15, 2010: Rossi’s political plan is “so unrealistic it seems more a hallucination than a workable vision.”
• September 15, 2010: Rossi’s plans are “back-of-the-napkin electioneering bumpf.”
• September 14, 2010: “Team Rossi continues to defend the indefensible.”
• September 14, 2010: “Rossi’s latest gasping bid to gain attention, mired in fourth place and bordering on irrelevance.”
• September 13, 2010: “Is Rossi running for Mayor of Toronto or Mayor of Fantasy Island?”
• September 7, 2010: “Is politics too serious a matter to be left to career backroom political hacks and former party presidents? Oh wait…”
• August 30, 2010: Rossi’s ideas are “Reform-inspired.”

The Internet sure is neat!

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I never called him a lying, duplicitous, good-for-nothing scumbag, who this morning has continued a failed political “career” marked by bizarre and erratic behaviour. I never said that.

I did, however, receive lots and lots of emails from Liberals. Some of them have passed along examples of what Benedict Baldy used to say about Conservatives. A sampling is below.

Have fun, Timmy!  We certainly will!

• Rocco Rossi, June 1, 2009: “Following a week of bad news for Stephen Harper’s Conservatives, today it gets even worse. His one hope to divert attention away from his government’s incompetence—the personal attack ads against Michael Ignatieff—can be completely neutralized. We need your help to do it, it doesn’t take much effort and it won’t cost you a penny.”
• Rocco Rossi, February 23, 2009: “The greatest strength of the Liberal Party has always been the people who come together under its banner.”
• Rocco Rossi, March 2, 2009: “With this Conservative government, old habits die hard. Stephen Harper is back on familiar ground and announcing new attack ads aimed at the Liberal Leader while the economy slips farther into recession. At a time when Canadians are worried about their jobs, their pensions and about putting their kids through school, the Conservatives are back with their old tricks in order to divert our attention from rising unemployment rates and the highest rate of job losses on record.”
• Rocco Rossi, September 16, 2009: [Email to me, in which he urges dirty tricks against a Conservative Party communications effort] “Would be good to mock or mess up in some way.”
• Rocco Rossi, August 25, 2009: [Email to me, in which he suggests Jack Layton performs sexual favours for Stephen Harper] “Jackie wants to be a political star, so he goes in the backseat of Stephen’s car…suckin on…”
• Rocco Rossi, August 12, 2009: [Email to me and an OLO official, urging a smear campaign against one of his political enemies.] “Might want to have a boo at it by someone who speaks good French.  Exotic dancers, visas, passports, false documentation.  A little smear stuff…but with the addition of terrorist overtones…..Might just be a crazy woman, but stuff have been spun out of worse.”

…meanwhile, he’s got lunatics over on Small Dead Animals defending his honour. Perhaps we’ll hear from him next time Kate mocks the Holocaust.

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