Prof. Simpson identifies the disease
To wit:
Professor Simpson identifies the disease. But who has the cure?
Hands up, class. We welcome your comments.
To wit:
Professor Simpson identifies the disease. But who has the cure?
Hands up, class. We welcome your comments.
Sgt. Rae, at your service.
UPDATE: From a friend with deep Grit caucus connections: “Rae to Jerusalem. Smitherman to Ottawa. All’s well that ends well.”
Okay, I’m sorry, but I have a total man crush on this guy [full disclosure: whose caucus I’ve given comms advice]. When I read this (highlighted) Tweet last night, I literally burst out laughing. It got a lot of media attention, too.
Peeps, indeed. Hilarious.
That’s a pretty representative sample of opinion on the Liberal blogosphere, these days. Grits seem to be very, very unhappy with the Afghanistan result.
Messr. Rae and Ignatieff’s volte-face – on ending the war, on Canada’s foreign policy, on ratification in Parliament – has clearly left many Liberal partisans enraged. They are certainly filling my inbox with that sort of sentiment. All of the various tribes – Dionistas, Martinites, Chretienites, even Ignatieff and Rae enthusiasts – seem to be seriously pissed off. I certainly am.
Now, most Liberals aren’t as foolish as Yours Truly, of course, and prefer to make their criticisms anonymously (for now). Having experienced how the current OLO deals with disagreement, I can certainly understand that.
For my column in this Sunday’s Sun, then, I want to provide readers with a sense of the mood in the Liberal Party of Canada in the wake of the Rae-Ignatieff reversal. So if you spot a Liberal blogger/Twitterer/whateverer giving voice to that – pro or con – I’d be grateful if you’d point me in their direction, in comments or by email.
I may be wrong about Liberals being mad at Messrs. Ignatieff and Rae, but I don’t think so. Your help would be gratefully received, either way.
UPDATE: That didn’t take long. I’ve already received a snotty email from Jason Cherniak, declaring that I should no longer refer to myself as a Liberal (to wit: “at some point don’t you think you should stop claiming to be a Liberal…?”). Ah, Jason: you just never change, do you? Next up: they’ll start calling Queen’s Park. Just watch.
UPDATED: Get a load of this: Jason, a Liberal official, has sent me an “Informal Libel Notice” (whatever that is) for, apparently, calling his snotty note snotty, and for revealing that he no longer wants me to “claim” that I am a Liberal. I’ve told him to beat it.
It’s also bizarre. There is nothing that Stephen Harper loves more than lobbing policy hand grenades at the Liberal caucus, and watching them dance. On gun control, on abortion, on almost any issue, Grit disunity makes Harper happier than a flea at a dog show.
So why, then, is he now giving the Grits a break?
I hum ‘Stars and Stripes Forever’ whilst Monte looks on, awestruck.
Clippage here, at about the 1:45 mark.
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