One of my Ottawa Operatives tells me there is a joke going around Ottawa about Stephen Harper's new nickname.
“They are calling him 'shrub',” says my contact. “A small Bush.”
Okay, okay....not exactly a screamer, but neat just the same, for the man who is busily trying to adapt the theory of the Imperial Presidency to the Presidential Prime Ministership.
Indeed, every time Prime Minister Stephen Harper opens his mouth or makes another move, it is as though his American Idol is speaking in his ear.
Which is to say, the truth cannot be found in anything the government of Stephen Harper does or says.
When Mr. Harper says he is protecting loved ones from the evil and relentless media by not allowing media coverage of the body bags as they come back from Afghanistan, he is lying. The only people he is trying to protect are Stephen Harper and the politicians of the Conservative party — protecting them from a Canadian public which just might start asking tough questions about the reason Canadians are being killed fighting a nonsensical war launched by his good buddy Mr. Bush.
And when Mr. Harper desecrates the memory of those Canadians who are killed and dismembered on behalf of Mr. Bush in the rough and rocky terrain of Afghanistan, he does so only so that we are not exposed to visible reminders of this feckless national adventure.
Indeed, there is only one reason for every action and every lie — the election of a majority Conservative government next spring.
I've read and listened to much talk about the recent budget. I have digested the learned insight, analysis and opinion — is it a conservative budget? Is it too conservative? Is it not conservative enough?
There is one simple and obvious answer — all of the above, because it is a totally political budget designed to propel the election of a majority Conservative government.
There is one caveat — that the majority Conservative government be elected before enough Canadians realize they have been had.
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Read more..
http://www.rabble.ca/politics.shtml?x=49840
“They are calling him 'shrub',” says my contact. “A small Bush.”
Okay, okay....not exactly a screamer, but neat just the same, for the man who is busily trying to adapt the theory of the Imperial Presidency to the Presidential Prime Ministership.
Indeed, every time Prime Minister Stephen Harper opens his mouth or makes another move, it is as though his American Idol is speaking in his ear.
Which is to say, the truth cannot be found in anything the government of Stephen Harper does or says.
When Mr. Harper says he is protecting loved ones from the evil and relentless media by not allowing media coverage of the body bags as they come back from Afghanistan, he is lying. The only people he is trying to protect are Stephen Harper and the politicians of the Conservative party — protecting them from a Canadian public which just might start asking tough questions about the reason Canadians are being killed fighting a nonsensical war launched by his good buddy Mr. Bush.
And when Mr. Harper desecrates the memory of those Canadians who are killed and dismembered on behalf of Mr. Bush in the rough and rocky terrain of Afghanistan, he does so only so that we are not exposed to visible reminders of this feckless national adventure.
Indeed, there is only one reason for every action and every lie — the election of a majority Conservative government next spring.
I've read and listened to much talk about the recent budget. I have digested the learned insight, analysis and opinion — is it a conservative budget? Is it too conservative? Is it not conservative enough?
There is one simple and obvious answer — all of the above, because it is a totally political budget designed to propel the election of a majority Conservative government.
There is one caveat — that the majority Conservative government be elected before enough Canadians realize they have been had.
.
Read more..
http://www.rabble.ca/politics.shtml?x=49840
