Sister Sage's Musings

Hmmmm, Rahim Jaffer, a drunk driver and a cokehead and his princess wife who has a penchant for temper tantrums. Must a been the wedding of hell for ‘em. They are also the poster couple for  typical Harpercon instability.

Now ain’t they the cutest couple evuh!

Fern Hill’s post regarding taxation on sterilization particularly grabbed my attention this morning. She found this idiotic idea from yet another one of those unstable blogging neo-tards where she expresses idiotic ideas like hitting childless couples with heavy tax penalties and taxing contraception (500%) to the point of turning it into illegal contraband like cocaine and machine guns. Like most of those Romper roomies, those ideas didn’t just hit her. She was reading more convoluted causes of of the recession being caused by anything but the real cause which is, of course,  unregulated corporate greed, Bush’s deregulation of the banking system and everyday folks going bankrupt because they bought into those western ideals that measure a person’s value by how big their houses and cars are and how many material posessions they don’t use they can get their hands on simply for the sake of bragging rights to ooo-ing and aw-ing neighbours.

This time, this blogging neo-tard can get all relieved and even cum in their pants  now because the Vatican Economist is stating that the recession is not the fault of the banks, but rather, the fault of lower birth rates.

This of course, brings me back to a time when Lucien Bouchard enraged many folks when he stated in October of 1995:

“We’re one of the white races that has the fewest children.”

All Bouchard did was make a whole lot folks pissed.  Socon or bust honestly thinks that beating childless couples over the head with excessive “sterilization” taxes will turn these women into instant baby factories.  What about couples who are infertile who do want children but can’t afford fertility treatments? You want to tax them to death due to being baron, but you also stress that you don’t want our health care system to cover fertility treatments? How does that work?

A future workforce, after all, is essential to the growth and continued existence of the State.

Again, a problem with that;  even though many are retiring these days, most of their jobs are not being refilled either in the public or private sectors.  My current job is an example of that. Due to the retirement of the receptionist at the point of service where I work, my position and her’s merged. In addtion to doing my duties, I’ve also had this retired receptionist’s work load added. I don’t mind, I’m always up for to a challenge and it keeps me employed at a place I really enjoy working at.  I am merely providing an example of the current work trends.

 It’s been a long time since either Canada or the U.S.  has produced more than we consume. We keep outsourcing manufacturing and call-center jobs to China, India, Thailand and other Asian countries.

In a few years, due to either this recession or a raise in the retirement age, the flow of workers retiring will come to an eventual halt, thus not much new job growth, nor much opportunity to grow in any industry.

Also, as technology evolves, there is less of a need for manpower. In other words, even if we all get barefoot and pregnant, we would probably have a bunch more unemployed adults who would need to use government resources, much like the aging baby boomers.

Do I really have to touch on the utter stupidity on taxing contraception 500%??  That will really curb the spread of AIDS and other STDs.

Yes, yes,  While Bouchard, Socan or Bust, other neo-cons and theocrats and the Vatican Economist all twist themselves over no one in the western world is having babies to condemn them to indentured servitude, they seem to forget that there are many,  many babies born in the developping world.  Their own economies don’t help these families to help themselves or any economy of the future for that matter. This whole we’re not having enough babies thing kind of flies flat doesn’t it?

 I’m surprised they haven’t gone for the most offensive and insist that childless westerners adopt third world babies a la Madonna and Brangelina, thus having more future tax-payers, but then, that would bring us to our current “problem” here in Canada, according to many Canadians bigots: too many immigrants. This, of course, is no surprise, check out that CBC comments page today. Many of their comments go in so far as to really come off as white supremacists. 

Yes, they’re all scared they may have to make certain concessions and learn to be tolerant of these new tax payers. This too would make them blame us for not having white babies to endenture them to a life of servitude and to protect the lilly-white neo-con greedy bigots.

My question is to these neo-cons like Socon or Bust: Are you all barefoot and pregnant expecting minimum your 5th child. Hell neo-con evangelicals like St-Stevie and GW Bush only have two children each, for the most part.

Once again, this is a case of neo-cons shifting the blame in order to justify their own selfishness in order to hide from the real cause of the recession which was greed; pure unabashed capitalist greed and now they bitch and moan over the lack of births and can’t stand it when they have to learn to live in the same world as our new immigrant tax-payers. After all, unless you’re Native Indian,  you too are derived from immigrants.

No, it’s about time to swear off greed and materialism and start thinking about the communities in which we live.   Job creation is vital and we have to stop sending our jobs overseas at the expense of our workers. And yes, more regulation is definitely needed in the banking industry.

The blame game just doesn’t accomplish anything anymore, neither does greed nor bigotry.

I agree with Fern Hill on this one: I personally don’t care who is paying for our social programs.and such

Just when we think she can’t get anymore ridiculous, hypocritical and dumb, she sinks to whole new levels and so do her supporters it would seem.

This time, it comes so shortly after telling a captive Calgary audience willing to forgo grocery money or paying bills for the overpriced ticket, that her brother’s burnt ankle survived the Evul, Gulag-styled, ’socialized’, death panels of Whitehorse.  No, her ‘irony’ was not missed on folks with more than a grade 6 education. Neither was her hypocrisy after telling the character of Marg Delahunty of This Hour Has 22 Minutes that we should  basically scrap our single payer health care system in favor of the free markets so enterprises can turn a profit.

Well, she popped up at a Fetus-Fetishest rally to of course, open her mouth about the usual shit she spews like death panels, protecting the unborn and how she never would have aborted Trig, her down syndrome baby (she always does like to make a point of that don’t she?) and how her unwed knocked-up teen-aged daughter, Bristol didn’t have an abortion. Wow! Hot yippety dog!! Remember folks, people actually pay for this drivel!!

Well, anyhow, See Sawah run has a whole new excuse now for writing cheat notes on her hand, “God did it”. No shit! One of her bible thumping supporters sent her this passage from
Isaiah 49:16L:

¹⁶ See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands;
       your walls are ever before me.

Oh boy, I wonder if that supporter was part of the Andy Schlafly crowd, feverishly attempting to ‘de-librulize’ the bible?

Pretty much every story and every passage in the bible is open to interpretation. Even one of the priests at church when he gives the homily reminds us of this. In fact, he too, doesn’t believe many of the stories verbatim, but he’s very good at giving us his interpretation as to their meaning.

Using Isaiah 49:16 the way See Sawah Run did goes beyond an interpretation. It even defies logic, especially to one who studied pre-history.  To state the most obvious, they didn’t have pens or pencils or any tools for writing back in those days.

Furthermore, to believers, God is an entity; a spirit,  a supreme being, not some kind of being like a human or even an animal. God wouldn’t have hands.

Here is one possible interpretation of  Isaiah 49:16: and here’s another.  There are many other interpretations of Isaiah 49:16, as with any biblical passage, but, it most certainly would not mean God wrote on his hand, as See Sawah Run and her inbred bible-thumping fan club seem to strongly believe.

“Hey, if it was good enough for God, scribbling on the palm of his hand, it’s good enough for me, for us. In that passage, he says, ‘I wrote your name on the palm of my hand to remember you.’ And I’m like ok, I’m in good company,” she told cheering supporters.

As I’ve said, just when she can’t get any more ridiculous, self-contradictory or just plain dumb, she comes back with more…

The next time, she’ll stick in foot in it will more than likely be that debate started in the U.S. about backing out of NAFTA. Just think how she’ll find some way of exploiting her children for that one.

However, humour aside,  Sawah’s statement implies that typically fundamental Christian extremist that she, herself is.  It’s as if she is comparing herself to God, which is always a dangerous assertion for anyone to make, largely in part, it’s a symptom of schizophrenia and many other mental illnesses.  But then, I always did wonder about her stability as I would with any other religious extremist.

And remember, folks!! She could well be the next president of the U.S. of A. in 2012!

One thing Stevie Harper has been extremely successful at over his political career is controlling the agenda. He has so many angles to accomplish this that he doesn’t walk down stairs, he flows like semi-set gelatin.

Whether it is calling early elections in defiance of his own fixed election date law, attempting to bribe sick MP’s to win a Confidence vote, Proroguing Parliament to avoid embarrassing questions, or painting a perfectly legitimate coalition as a coup d’etat, Our Steve manages to control the agenda.

Except…

His last proroguation blew up in his face, and the questions he sought to avoid, about the transfer to torture of Afghan detainees, are simply not going away. Indeed, with each passing day, the smell of cordite grows stronger, and we all know the smoking gun can’t be far away.

So how can those of us who love democracy help the process along?

Join the push to force the release of unredacted documents on the Afghan detainee scandal. Or as an alternative, to declare Harper and his Ministers in contempt of Parliament for refusing to do so.

Our old friends from C.A.P.P. seem to be refocusing their efforts, now that Parliament is back in session. If you haven’t visited the Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament Facebook page for a while, I suggest you do so now.

CAPP successfully foiled Harpers attempt to control the agenda by signing up hundreds of thousands of Canadians, and mobilizing 25,000 of them to attend rallies in opposition to the Harper Prorogument. Thousands of letters were sent to MPs and the MSM. Flash rallies dogged the steps of Ministers.

Now C.A.P.P is changing their name to Canadians Advocating Political Participation (Same acronym) and setting it’s sights to forcing the PM to respect the wishes of Parliament and to release the documents.

Many CAPPers feel this issue is a much greater threat to democracy than the prorogument, and I tend to agree.

Time for Canadians to sieze the agenda once more!

I just learned that the United States Congress is backing President Obama in backing out of NAFTA in about six months time. This proposal came from Missisippi Representative, Gene Taylor-D. It is getting the support of more and more, from the left Dems to Blue Dogs to GOP to Libertarians like Ron Paul from 16 states. It is being said that NAFTA has been hurting the American economy and American jobs since 1994.

“At a time when 10 to 12 percent of the American people are unemployed, I think Congress has an obligation to put people back to work,” Taylor said.

“You’ll see the American people rally behind this, in my humble opinion,” said Rep. Walter Jones, a North Carolina Republican who is one of about 28 co-sponsors of the bill.

It would seem that even the Tea-bagger hit parade is behind this. The biggest and most obvious reason for Obama and Congress timing of this would more than likely be because it’s election time this year for many senators, unemployment is at an all time high in the U.S. and American voters would definitely favor more an American-first kind of deal.

Republicans and Democrats coming together? American voters more than likely to go along with a pull-out of NAFTA?? A fait-accompli then? Not quite. There is a large hurtle to cross. Remember them pesky lobbyists and their powers state side.

Business groups like the National Association of Manufacturers and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce strongly support NAFTA, which they say has spurred U.S. economic growth by tearing down trade barriers between the three countries.

That is, unfortunately, the sad reality. The U.S. is ruled by lobbying from Business groups. With all those elections coming up this year, many would no doubt rely upon such groups to get re elected. Perhaps this idea will get shelved at least until afterwards. I would hope so.

These free trade deals with the U.S. haven’t really been great for Canada neither: Hello Softwood Lumber and Ethyl Corp. v Gov’t of Canada. Currently, Melvin J Howard, Centurion and Howard Family Trust v Gov’t of Canada (If anyone can tell where that suit is at these days, please drop a comment or email; last I heard was over the summer, it was before NAFTA arbitrators).

Then there is St-Stevie, yes, he does have his hands full at the moment, running away from the truth and contorting himself like a pretzel to sell his B.S. to a lot of gullible Canadians only too eager to swallow his kool-aid, making threats to the opposition and such. However, make no mistake; how much time will it take him to race (on once again, private jet plane) to the White House to catch Obama during one of his smoke breaks to get on his knees and beg him to keep NAFTA in place while offering more of  Canada on a silver platter? Or scrap NAFTA entirely for a whole new agreement, that would make Canada a step short of being the 51st state of the union.

Any bets on how long it will take St-Stevie to stop everything he’s doing to rush off to suck up to President Obama?

Yes, Romper Roomies (Blogging Tories), I do mean you! Good Gawd, just how desperate are ya to not only keep the megalomaniac St-Stevie and his evangelical Harpercons in power, but to actually get him his majority?  How low are y’all willing to sink to achieve this end. I mean you all laughed at our ‘weak’ opposition and about Iffy and so on, but they must be really strong if you’re all not only encouraging the Harpercons to cheat, which they have already proven quite proficient at, but you all have new ways of accomplishing that end.

Nowadays, they are all pissing all over each other, really showing their true colours, little by little. It seems that they’re bursting at the seems and they can no longer hide their true contemptable feelings that even contradict neo-con values.

The Romper Roomies like BC Blue, Adrian MacNair, Iceman have all been tripping all over themselves, turning themselves into pretzels even linking to Steve Ejankulator’s page (Thanks CC, I do like the name) as if it had the gospel truth as they have all oo-ing and aw-ing, and for what??  A three year old posting with links that either don’t work or are just commercial sites.  One of those links I clicked on, my anti-virus popped up with warnings and froze my computer for a few minutes! Then again, maybe that is  one of Ejankulator’s tactics? After everything I’ve been seeing and reading as of late, I really have to wonder. I’m not linking it, not worth it, given the links don’t work and such. If you must see it, go to BC Blue or to MacNair’s where links are all over the place. Just before you click one of those old links out of morbid curiosity, do make sure your anti-virus is up to date.

They’re all jumping on some bandwagon that we must ignore Professor Attaran because he “owes Iggy a  favor” or that “Iggy saved his job”. I did quite a bit of research (outside of Blogging Tory posts) trying to find the Iggy / Attaran connection. After many searches, there was not much available: they did indeed cross paths and yes, they’ve even worked together at Harvard.  So? Like any other sector, Academia is a small world, why wouldn’t university professors cross path?

Yes, Attaran had some kind of trouble or mishap about some funding for one of his programs at Harvard University’s Carr Center. However, as Dr Dawg of Dawg’s Blawg pointed out to me (thanks you for your assistance, Dawg!), this whole incident appears to be nothing more than some university bureaucratic snaffoo that pretty much anyone can run into. Hardly career ruining. Whether or not Iggy helped him through that is inmaterial. The professor has far better reasons to talk than about some little funding snaffoo that happened years ago.  That whole so-called Iggy-saving-Professor Attaran’s-job thing is nothing more than a frenzied red-herring.

He’s not the only one talking torturegate, neither. Little by little, more and more are coming out talking that torturegate talk. My my, Stevie is really going to have no place to run. Whether or not Iacobucci tells St-Stevie what he and his Harpercons and cheerleaders over at Corporate media and yes, the ever increasingly  Liberal and Islam Deranged Blogging Tories want to hear, it seems that it is not legally binding or viable, due to the fact that Mr Iaccobucci is no longer a sitting judge for any court.

That whole “National Security” thing simply doesn’t hold water anymore. If it were just one detainee or one minor indiscretion, as the Harpercon media and the Romper Roomies seem to insist,  how does it relate to national security. If nothing happened, then the question becomes, “what national security”? What is there to hide?

In a previous post, I asked some questions of the Blogging tories and the other Harpercon cheerleaders.  I asked for the real reason for all this pissing all over themselves, twisting themselves into pretzels as to why they are sooooo desperate to be soooo protective of St-Stevie and their desperation to keep the truth about torturegate buried? 

Well? Which is it?

While I’m more inclined to believe that what Wendy “Girl on the Wrong” Sullivan said to be truthful and a fairly accurate representation of how these neo-con bigots really feel, there is another reason behind it.

After reading that idiotic comment of Mary T yesterday pretty much wishing for a St-Stevie totalitarian regime, Shrieking fools like Hunter who don’t like strong veteran reporters who ask tough questions (yes, Hunter, perhaps we prefer Brian Lilley who reports the news with such a blatantly obvious bias,  folks like Kathy Shaidle  who blatantly come out to say they hate poor people or that poor people are stupid and make bad choices, as well as other goodies Canadian Cynic blogged  about today. One good good thing about the increasing instability of the Romper Roomies and other neo-cons, the truth invariably pops out; they can no longer help themselves.

For torturegate,  Harpercon cheerleaders of all stripes, for the most part anyway,  feel the exact same way Wendy Sullivan does. 

In addition, as is with so many other issues of the day with St-Stevie and the Harpercons, they have this sick fixation, a dependence really on St-Stevie. How else do we explain their desperation to not only make sure St-Stevie stays PM, but that he does get his precious majority and save the day so to speak. They will do anything and yes, take dirty trick pages from the St-Stevie playbook in a manic attempt to make sure they achieve this end, no matter who gets hurt or what laws are broken.

It is obvious they’re not interested in gov’t transparency or accountibility for St-Stevie: that should only be reserved for Libruls, and the other opposition parties. Maybe the opposition is a little stronger than many would give them credit for these days? That would be the only viable explanation here.

If they were interested in an accountible and transparent government, they would be alongside everyone else, demanding all the torturegate documentation, unredacted documents.  Regardless of whatever bigotry and hate they may have for Muslims, torturing or knowingly sending these detainees goes against the Geneva Convention.  I thought neo-cons were a law and order type of folk; well, that should include their neo-con PM and international law.

If they’re sooooo sure there is nothing, all the more  they should demand the unredacted Afghan detainee documents, if for no other reason than to prove those “looney lefties” wrong.

No, they have proven to not want the truth out and frankly, I think it’s time to lock up the knives and other sharp and flammable objects they can hurt themselves (and others) with. Yes, it must suck to live in paranoia, hate and mental illness indeed as the Romper Roomies, Harpercon Cheerleaders and other Neo-cons seem to be afflicted with these days.

Whatever happened to those Right of Center; those old Progressive Conservative supporters who follow a conservative ideology of government with transparency and accountability; a government that wouldn’t prorogue as a means to run away from their demons? A government that was fiscally responsible. A right of center fiscally responsible type of person who would be appalled at the idea of a finance minister spending thousands of their tax payer dollars to pay for a private plane on a flight that is probably not even an hour long.  What happened to that Tory supporter who would generally applaud at a government that would lead by example?

It would seem that they still  exist, but their voices are drowned out by the Fox News-y, Sarah Palin-esque tea-bagger types.

Romper Roomies, Harpercon cheerleaders:  it must really suck to be you  with all that hatred, paranoia and dilusision: how ever in the world do you do it?

Mary T is a commenter over at Unambiguously Ambidextrous. Usually, her comments at Romper Roomie pages are quite amusing. This latest one is of course, no exception.

We need an election to get rid of most of the opposition, non party status for the libs would be nice.

Writing about an insignificant shrieking commenter who doesn’t seem to have the intelligence to blog, would not even be on my to do list, except  like the video below, was it just a dumb comment without thinking? Or did she know exactly what she commented on? Without opposition parties or any opposition of significance, we would have a totalitarian regime. What’s worse is I think she expresses the views of a lot of folks who have been yanked on St-Stevie’s sharp right turn: they don’t want to see a strong opposition. Remember how Iggy got lambasted last fall for dropping the gauntlet when he said he would not support the gov’t any further? Or the coalition in 2008? And of course, torturegate….

Scary times! What’s even scarier are folks like Mary T who go all Sarah Palin-Fox News in the blogosphere. Boys and girls, she’s a Canuck! Are Canadians thinking more and more like the tea-bagger hit parade.

They whine for the nanny state to back off but they have no problem with the idea of a totalitarian regime.  Anyone care to tackle this one?

I wonder if Mary T will stop by?

I'm going to hold my breath until we can separate from the east coast...

I’m goin’ to hold my breath until __________________!! I just provided one suggestion in the photo caption.  If you have other ideas on how to fill that blank, please fill it in….Ya know, kinda like “Match Game”;  a tv game show for those who are old enough to remember.

I realize this picture  is somewhat dated. It’s been awhile since I played with photoshop and illustrator due to migraines. I saw that pic in a facebook group and have been wanting to turn it blue for some time now.

Happy Sunday Evening!

Folks are tweeting about this this fine evening. According to World wingnut Daily, the reincarnated Gabor is indeed considering running for Secretary of State in California. Well, I guess no one should be surprised. After all, if See Sawah run can be President of the U.S., why shouldn’t Orly become Secretary of State of California? In fact, she’s not aiming high enough: she should be Secretary of state in the U.S.!! Kissinger did it.

Oh yeah! Imagine: President See Sawah run; VP Michelle Bachman and Secretary of State Taitz (whaddyano!! It rhymes! Wow! Who knew!); the sexist wingnut sistahs!! Les also add Ann Coulter as…well…I’ll leave that to your imagination

Apparently, Orly has trouble even filling out the simplest of forms!

The pic of the form is courtesy of  Ms Daisy of Crazy Internet People

It seems that See Sawah run can now add Stand-up comedy to her resume after appearing on the Jay Leno show. Man! She is that renaissance woman, ain’t she?  Mayor of Wasilla, Failed vice-presidential candidate, failed governor, motivational speaker, ‘Author’,Fox News Starlet, comedienne, potential presidential candidate and of course, Sistah tea-bagger extraordinaire.

Remember Ann Coulter saying how she wanted Jews to be “perfected”? Well, how’s about perfecting Ann Coulter? The image below from maxim.com has some good ideas on how that can be accomplished.

Ann Coulter Suggested Improvements --from Maxim.com

The Sistah-hood needs some help, me thinks.

Happy Saturday Nite all!

After hearing about that miserable budget and the latest developments on investigation torturegate, and of course, the ongoing blunders of Jason Kenney and other of St-Stevie’s Harpercon flunkies.  I have rethought my position since I posted To Call or Not To Call an Election This Spring. The more I read and hear about lately, the more I agree with Frank Graves, that an election must be called this spring and not in the fall, but I have somewhat different reasons for it. I realize many have expressed that a spring election would only yield the exact same results as the last time. They would more than likely be right, barring any other surprises between now and say sometime in April or May if an election were called. However, some new action would be occurring; the face of parliament would eventually change. Not having an election now doesn’t motivate any true action.

Waiting til the Fall would be another disaster: a Harpercon majority. St-Stevie does have a talent for resilience. Many are of the belief that the economy will be recovered by then. I don’t think so; especially not when there are pundits and economists who cry fear at the aging baby boomers seaking government resources ‘in droves’.  I am also skeptical because, the U.S. keeps digging themselves deeper and deeper and like it or not, they are our neighbours and if they sink any deeper, they could well take us down with them, but I digress.  It doesn’t really matter what I think of the economy. In fact, as we have learned, it doesn’t matter if the economy has recovered or not and by how much: it all depends how well the Harpercon media serves up that Economic recovery kool-aid.  Given the speculation of economic recovery by the fall, I will guess that the Harpercon media will sell this.  It also tells me that, as Jean Lapierre speculated to Ricky P right after the budget, this budget is going to set the stage for a fall election. This is, once again, St-Stevie controlling the agenda. Result of that?  St-Stevie comes out the hero, yet again, this time for having ’saved’ the economy, whether it’s true or not.

As for Iggy, well, I agree with Frank Graves, he just isn’t going to get any better. He gave it the college try during prorogation. So much he could have capitalized on and in all honesty, with the anger toward St-Stevie’s prorogation; for stripping our democratic rights away and the hard backhanded way he did this in, Liberals’ numbers should have gone up even more; they should have soared far above the Harpercons, and they could well have under a different leader. No, Iggy had his chance to shine during prorogation and to keep it going throughout the olympics, even. After all, if one reads their history, the Liberals were the ones who bid for those ‘gold medal winning’ olympics in Vancouver. Also, ‘Own the Podium’ was started in 2005; when the Liberals were still in power. This info isn’t  really important, except for many Canadians giving St-Stevie credit for the record breaking medal wins at the 2010 Olympics. No, Iggy just isn’t going to get any better. However, the Liberals don’t have anyone else and they can’t really justify a new leadership campaign right now, due largely in part to Iggy not having gone through the ultimate test: a federal election. We can pretty much predict that outcome without money spent, but perhaps it needs to be formalized.

The Bloc Quebecois and the N.D.P. really have nothing to lose or gain. Neither will ever govern, unless, of course, they join a coalition. The raison d’etre for the Bloc Quebecois is very much alive and well; will for Quebec sovereignty or not. For them, it doesn’t really matter when they go to an election, give or take a few seats, they’re not big game changers.

It would appear that St-Stevie’s olympic lustre is dulling and that now the heat is turned up on torturegate and his MPs continue to make total asses of themselves from Jason Kenney’s bigotted and idiotic immigration guides to  MP temper tantrums in public places to the village idiot of parliament giving insane speeches. For those reasons, the best St-Stevie can hope for in a spring election is another minority government; same as 2008, right? Pointless excercise?  I think not. For openers, after a third minority, his party will have read the writing on that reformatory bathroom wall; St-Stevie will never yield a majority for them if he hasn’t done it by now. I can see them pressuring him on out that door. I suspect there are plenty of cons of varying degrees; inside and outside the Reformatories who would love to take his place. I already mentioned Jean Charest, but there are others. In fact, I’m sure there is no shortage of Conservative leadership hopefuls to throw their hats into the ring.

As for the Liberals, no doubt, Iggy would lose now.  He may well be right in saying ‘Canadians don’ t want an election’ and I think one of the Liberals’  problems is that they’re still gun shy from reactions when Iggy threw the gauntlet last September; he was lambasted from being oppositional. Guess what? Canadians will get over it. In fact, the Liberals’ reaction to the latest Harpercon budget is simply giving them the image as whimps. Yes, they could offer alternatives and yes, it should happen sooner rather than later. However, more importantly, if the Liberals go all out and join the NDP and the Bloc and vote against this budget, they may well garner more respect than even Peter Donolo could imagine. Like it or not, this is the perfect political crisis for Iggy and the Liberals to throw down the gauntlet.  That said, St-Stevie would still, more than likely, win another minority government, but probably a smaller minority. Clearly, that result would justify the ousting of Iggy.

A new leader would have to be selected.  The only thing that would worry me about a new liberal leader selection would be yet another coronation. Bob Rae, simply because he’s itching for it and he’s part of that old boys’ network. Bob Rae as leader would be suicide.  Neither Quebec, nor Ontario would support him. As for Gerard Kennedy, I don’t see it neither; not in Quebec anyway. No, I think what’s best is no more leaders from Toronto for the time being, especially after that whole Denis Coderre fiasco.  Another reason is that the Liberals are now wearing the brand o the ‘Toronto party’.

Then, there is the minority government itself.  Right now, as things stand, all St-Stevie needs to swim through confidence motions is just one party to keep him afloat. It’s also what keeps St-Stevie’s games of Divide and Conquer so successful.  No one in the opposition is motivated to attempt to work with one another; to find common ground and work together. I believe that a spring election could well yield a  smaller minority for St-Stevie, so instead of needing only one party to keep him swimming, he would need two or all three of them to keep confidence motions afloat. Opposition parties would probably be even more motivated to work together and St-Stevie’s little Divide and Conquer games would be even less successful. Especially, since St-Stevie’s days as PM and leader of the Reformatories would be numbered and a new leader chosen. The opposition parties would also be more motivated to find common ground and perhaps even form a coalition or, take a page from the St-Stevie playbook and merge.

Now, since Iggy doesn’t want that spring election as he knows that will be the end of his tenure and more than likely, his political career, I wonder if  the Liberals will have back bone and show up in droves to vote against that budget? Peter Donolo, show us you still have that midas touch everyone keeps talking about and advise the MPs to vote in droves against the budget. After all, when it comes right down to it, you were hired to help the whole Liberal party; not Iggy, alone.

What say you all?