Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Liberal Maternal Health Motion Defeated by Liberals

You have to love it when the Liberals try to force the Government to fund foreign abortions (under the guise of maternal health), only to have their motion defeated by Liberal MPs abstaining from the vote! Thus far the only Liberals Rosemary Barton has confirmed that skipped the vote are Paul Szabo (who is vulnerable to the Tory candidate in his riding), Dan McTeague, and John McKay. Although the legislation would not have been legally binding, at least now the Government doesn't need to "symbolically" introduce the idea of funding foreign abortions at the G8.

The Liberals attempted to drive a wedge into the Conservative Party, and not only did they fail to divide Tories, they succeeded in dividing themselves! How awesome is that? As Kory Teneycke just said, "they had the numbers to win and didn't win". Might I say by the way that if Mr. Teneycke, former Stephen Harper communications director and newest panelist on the Soloman Show has a fan club, I would consider joining it. He almost makes the Soloman Show worth watching. In fact, Kory should be the host of Power and Politics, because Evan hosting a show by such a name is a flagrant oxymoron.

The question now is will the Liberals keep pushing this? Just yesterday Scott Reid was on the Soloman Show saying it is brilliant strategy and they should do it indefinitely until the Tories split into two parties leading to another decade of unopposed Liberal rule. You may remember Scott from such strategy recommendations as Stephen Harper "kill him kill him dead!" I guess Scott never considered the possibility that it might divide his own party more than it divides the Tories. Sometimes Scotty can tell you what is really behind Liberal "policy", like how you need national daycare because otherwise parents will spend their babysitting money on beer and popcorn. Everybody knows this motion was about politics, and Scott admitted as much.

13 comments:

  1. Ignatieff's press scrum was priceless! As soon as he got some tough questions from the French media, he turned around and high tailed it out of the foyer!

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  2. Is anyone shocked this stunt would create division. Is Donolo pushing Rae-Ignatieff battlelines out?

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  3. It was a disgraceful display by a once strong party.

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  4. Are there any links to Iggy's press scrum? I'd love to see it. :)

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  5. I am looking for the snarky Blog from Kady O Malley over at the CBC. The silence is deafening!!!! What is happening to her beloved Liberals??

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  6. As Harper said during QP, the Liberals were being "too clever by half".

    Will they learn any lessons from this schmozzle ? Probably not.

    It'll be full steam ahead, as captain Donolo, blinkers on, searches for the next iceberg.

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  7. Paul, they showed it in the last 15 minutes of the Soloman Show which would be on CBC.ca. You don't need to watch the whole 2 hour show, but Kory Teneycke on the "Power Panel" is worth a watch.

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  8. I wrote this post while watching the story break on the Soloman show. They did not disclose in the segments that I watched that some Liberals actually voted against the whipped Liberal motion! That's even better!

    This could start a growing trend of "running against the whip" in the Liberal caucus...

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  9. the headline at the globe right now is "Tories oppose ‘anti-American’ motion on family planning: Liberal maternal-health vote fails after government cites foreign-policy concerns with opposition's ‘rash, extreme’ rhetoric on contraception"

    no mention in the headline that it failed because Liberals voted against it

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  10. "running against the whip" in the Liberal caucus...
    and the punishment is??

    This was the Liberal's own Opposition Day Motion.
    For an opp it's the equivalent of govt side MP voting against their own budget.

    Any other leader would boot them from the party.
    But Danny's 6 got a pass,
    so maybe they will too......

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  11. The real scatology will become evident after this weekends big tinkers damn confab.
    Its one thing for the left when the conservatives oppose a liberal motion on abortion funding, its quite another when a liberal does it.
    I'm guessing that those three may still have a chance at holding on to their seat, not by much, but its going to be very hard to keep the left wing and the leadership contenders being egged on by them to keep this on low boil.
    The battle lines have been redrawn.
    Before its was Chretien-Martin.
    Now its leftwing liberals against blu-lib caucus.

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  12. ''Liberal Party polling has previously shown that abortion is an extremely powerful issue, one that is a game changer for many Canadians, especially women.''Gloria Galloway

    Did Donolo do the polling?

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