What has changed overnight?
In the Parliamentary Crisis only positions have hardened overnight. The Tories tactic of isolating the Bloc as the bad guys appears to have stuck. Despite telling lies in the House, the Weasel PM is getting away his diversionary tactics, Geobbels would have been proud of the man who stood in the House and told it that there was not a Canadian flag in the room when the accord was signed. Even when journos pointed out this was untrue no apology was forthcoming. Apologists did look stupid here is one of them - Chuck Strahl answering a question outside of the House:
Question: Why did you lie about the flag because there were flags behind them?
Hon. Chuck Strahl: The picture that I saw and the picture that I had — actually saw, somebody gave it off the Liberal Party website, shows that there is no flags there.
So now we know - it's still the Libs fault.
Pundits are still confused about the PMs next move, will he proroge and then force another election on a new budget, in January, or will he go to a vote on Monday? Either way he cannot avoid a vote in the House and then the GG has to make a choice - new government or new election.
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So Ben, tell us about Jacques Parizeau's perception of this, you know, the MONEY & ETHNICS leader that was kicked out in disgrace, well, because he sounded too ribit (as I'm sure you would recognize even in a whispered voice). Parizeau will be informing his anti-Canadian constituency that the crisis coalition is good for the Bloc.
Parizeau would prefer Stephane Dion, as a milqtoast, wildly unpopular, lame-duck prime minister, despised by his own party, and unable to get any serious electoral purchase outside of Montreal proper. And we know how deeply the NDP made inroads into the Quebec "nation".
Pierre Bourque has reported that Michael Ignatieff is getting cold feet about the coalition.
Sarkis Assadourian, a recently retired Liberal MP from Toronto, confessed to Mike Duffy that the coalition is very unpopular Liberal Party circles and triangles.
John Manley, Liberal Party elder touted as one of the "wise men" advising the coalition, denied the report in the Globe and Mail today, barely hiding his contempt for the deal, and the hucksterism behind it. Goebbels would be proud of that BS
Pauline Marois, Parti Quebecois leader announced that part of the Bloc's price for supporting the coalition is an immediate $1 billion transfer to Quebec. Why is the NDP (sound red) and Liberals (sound pink) declining to inform Canadians of the secret handshakes they are making to get the seperatists on board. The Bloc knows full well how to extort the max out of the other two stooges
Good ole loser Elizabeth May declined to answer Duffy's query whether she had been offered a Senate seat if she went for the Coalition of Creeps. And how many Senate seats will be offered to the Bloc -- do Canadians want a single seperatist in the Senate? The Coalition is making deals for a venal push for power, and Canadians are deliberately left in the dark about the deal-making.
Sounds like a lot of wild speculating going on here. Surely before the Coalition starts handing out goodies to any province they have to take power, and that is far from a sure thing at this point.
I can't believe Harper will try to prorogue Parliament now, when the country needs action on the economic front so desperately. That would be a cowardly and craven act that would only serve his party, nobody else.
Let's hope the GovGen will have what it takes to tell him to piss off and offer the Coalition a chance.
I hope the GG will not utter such a pejorative comment.
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