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Rural NDPs Following Charlie Angus’ Lead?

You all remember  Gary Breitkreuz, right? That yahoo who, through the use of a sock puppet, who is now long gone (naturally), basically threatened to beat Iggy black and blue? Oh yes! Gary Breitkreuz, just a “Good ol’ Boy!” But, unlike Waylon Jennings’ theme to “The Dukes of Hazard”, he really does mean harm, just like the rest of those Harpercons. Well, he just got dumped by NDP MP Charlie Angus, who previously supported Mullet-head Hoeppner’s bill.

We all remember Breitkreuz, the brute sending an email ‘proposition’ to the NDP MP of Timmins-James Bay; that email that pretty well pushed Angus to change his mind. In an odd sort of way, the gun nut, who once advocated for  new regulations that would make it a-okay to carry restricted firearms like hand guns and semi-automatic assault weapons in cars in cities, may well be the one to sink Mullet head Hoeppner’s bill. What an idiotioc redneck!  Brute Breitkreuz probably couldn’t even shoot the broad side of a barn.

According to the Toronto Star, it seems that the other 11 rural NDP MPs have also a distaste for the behavior of the Harpercons as of late.  It seems that they will either change their vote or at the very least, be absent from the day of the vote.

“You’ve got the Conservatives turning off our rural guys,” said Brad Lavigne, national director of the NDP. He added that two “very real options” are available to rural members — stay away or reverse their earlier support for the Conservative bill.

Charlie Angus correctly points out that it’s the Harpercons, themselves, that are portraying rural Canadians as  uneducated hillbillies. Something Angus and his other rural colleagues, I’m sure, wish to dispell.

“The Conservatives are unfortunately creating an impression that rural Canadians are somehow nut jobs, but they are not. For me, at the end of the day, I just don’t want to be standing beside these guys,” Angus said.

“At this point I am going to vote against this bill because I think the Conservatives … are treating Canadians as if they are fools on this.’’

Will the rural NDP MPs take heat for this? Perhaps.  Could they lose their votes to Harpercons? Maybe not. If they can persuade their constituents with the reports from the RCMP showing that the gun registry is not only useful, but also cost efficient.

Also, there must be other things, besides the long gun registry,  these rural NDP MPs can sell to their consituents that would address their other concerns better than the Harpercons ever could. I mean, were they really voted in because they promised to help Stevie spiteful kill the gun registry?  Not likely.  I would think that they were voted in because they convinced their constituents that they were better trusted to look out for their interests than the Harpercons. These NDP MPs should stick with that.

Look at it this way, Jack’s stubbornness at not whipping his caucus to vote against Mullet-head Hoeppner was most certainly not winning him any appreciation from Stevie Spiteful in addition to not winning him and his party any favor with many Canadians, including much of his own base.

“In effect, rhetoric aside, both Coalition leaders intend to keep the wasteful and ineffective $2 billion long-gun registry,’ the Tories say. They conclude that neither the NDP nor the Liberals care about rural voters. “Rural Canada: either its voice is important, or it isn’t.”

Note that the above quote came from an article that was published one day before the little email exchange between Brute Breitkreuz and Charlie Angus was published. At that time, things still looked like those MPs were going along with Mullet-head Hoeppner.

No, Stevie, and the other rednecks, the NDP rural MPs did and still do want their constituents to have a voice in Canada. They just prefer that their constituents have all the correct information before them; the good, the bad and the ugly.   Facts, figures, evidence, truthiness, all inconvenient  pesky details that go against Stevie and his flunkies’ agendas.

Stay  classy, Harpercons! ,Jack Layton and his party were risking  losing urban seats to align himself with the mullet-head she redneck herself and this is the thanks you give him?

No matter, Jack, looks like your MPs are saving you in spite of yourself.  But really, those Harpercons and their own stupidity and redneck ways are what would kill the Mullet-head’s bill in the end. Talk about your ironies.

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4 comments to Rural NDPs Following Charlie Angus’ Lead?

  • JJ

    The rural NDP is not your inner-city granola-munching gun-hating NDP. I don’t think it’s likely that most of them will change their vote, but…

    If the NDP MPs go back on their word to their constituents after already promising them that they’d vote against the registry, the NDP will lose those seats in the next election, and they won’t lose them to Liberals. Out here, most ridings are 2 horse races with the NDP and Cons always neck-and-neck — my riding flips back and forth between them almost every election.

    The net result will be that the city folks will still have their much-beloved gun registry, but only for awhile because after the next election they’ll also have their much-feared Harpercon majority, at which point the registry will be toast. I for one would rather that happened without a Harper majority.

    ck Reply:

    As I”ve mentioned in my post, say those MPs came down with the flu and didn’t vote. Is it really a big deal? I mean, not like they campaigned on the single issue of ‘vote for me and I’ll help Steve kill the gun registry’–if that were the case, they would vote Harpercon for that matter. Surely these NDP MPs address other concerns of their’s that are more important that put them in office??

  • Kev

    I tend to agree with CK on this issue. After all the registry was an issue during the last election and the folks in those ridings voted NDP anyways. So it seems that they are more sophisticated than how they have been labeled, and like most of us decide who to vote for based on a plethora of issues.

  • JJ

    That’s true, we generally like our MPs in spite of this issue. Like my MP is voting against C-391, but that has always been her position and while I disagree, I don’t mind. She’s a good MP for other reasons.

    Then again, I’m not a one-issue voter, and you’d be amazed how many there are. And while the registry issue has always been white noise in the background in and out of campaign season, it’s never come to MPs actually getting the chance to scrap it, pledging to their constituents to do so, and then reneging. My MP has been consistent in her pro-registry stand, so she could win again in spite of this issue. Guys like Nathan Cullen, however, will be Toast. And out here there is only one other choice, and it isn’t Liberal.