Having just won a safe seat from would be coalition partners the NDP, leader Mike Ignatieff is trying to make his case that the next general election is going to be a two horse race between the Liberals and Tories. He is trying to put some distance between himself and the Dippers. I recall Liberal activist Jane Taber recently trying to make the point that the Canadian public is not afraid of a Liberal-NDP coalition, but why then are the Liberals so eager to run away from it?
After the election Iggy Tweeted "Tonight shows the LPC is the only party that can replace the Harper gov't and deliver real, progressive change for Canadians." I replied to his Tweet: "Losing a bellweather seat in the region that elected half your caucus really shows that you have a shot at forming government."
I dont see a difference between the Dippers and the Liberals.Theres a difference?
ReplyDeleteI don't remember the CPC have 30 MPs do Hall Duty on key votes.
ReplyDeleteThe balance sheet does not lie, the lights may go out if an election is called and they lose their political party funding.
Pity...
I see that stuffed shirt Mansbridge on the AT ISSUE panel last night trying to make that case also. Seems they want NDP to vote Liberal. They must think its the only way to get enough votes to go up against the Conservatives.
ReplyDeleteIgnatieff and his goof-ball buddies remind of Bruce Willis' character in sixth sense. The whole world is shifting to the right, the Liberal world vision is outdated, dead, but he's wandering around thinking he's saving us, when in fact, he and his Betamax watching, banana-seat riding, incense burning, velour-pant-wear, puffin-poop hiding flock of stodgy, stale, ass-scratchers are all already all done and put away like yesterday's dinner.
ReplyDeleteIggy and his "conga line of condescension".
ReplyDeleteYesterday on the Huffington Post website, David Ress hilariously reviewed Michael Ignatieff's most recent essay from the New Yorker Magazine. Rees teased us with a series of zingers.
Rees: At last, Ignatieff was going to come clean about his super-duper-double-dipper errors. I expected a no-holds barred, personal excoriation. In fact, I assumed the first, last, and only sentence of the essay would be: "Please, for the love of God, don't ever listen to me again."
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Rees: ..far from being an honest self-examination, it is a collection of vague aphorisms and bong-poster koans. It hums with the comforting murmur of lobotomy.
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Ignatieff: .."Nothing is personal in politics, because politics is theater. It is part of the job to pretend to have emotions that you do not actually feel. . . (Ignatieff)
And not one of Mr.Ignatieff's better Tim Horton's moments: "Politicians with good judgment bend the policy to fit the human timber. . . ."
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Ignatieff: "Politicians cannot afford to cocoon themselves in the inner world of their own imaginings. . . ."
Rees responds: Why do I hear Geddy Lee singing this...? All that's missing is the phrase"telescopic zodiac / whispering secrets into my cerebellum" and you've got a killer Rush lyric!
David Rees, in one of his kinder comments called it a conga line of condecension. Ouch.
Read the whole hilarious and devastating thing..
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-rees/cormac-ignatieffs-the-roa_b_59363.html