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Today seems to be the day for bad accidents.  First, there was the tragic motorcycle accident with Mario Lague, Iggy’s communications director earlier this morning. Again, deepest condolences to his family, friends and colleagues.

Then, just out from the Barrie Examiner, Helena Guergis who seems to be trapped under a dark cloud since last fall was in a car accident on her way to a funding announcement at the base, where Defence Minister Peter MacKay announced $219 million in upgrades.  Ms Guergis, who is five months pregnant,  is under observation in hospital.  She was driven by one of her assistants, Valerie Knight who is also under observation in hospital.

No matter what I may think of Helena Guergis, she doesn’t deserve the treatment she’s been getting from Stevie spiteful and she certainly didn’t deserve this to have happen to her.  I would like to wish Ms Guergis and Ms Knight a speedy recovery and that Guergis’ unborn baby survive this and come into the world healthy.

What the hell is it about the women of the Blogging SupposiTories?  Is it just me, or are they even more sexist than their male counterparts?

I wonder if Ex-Lax Max likes girls who look like  Tammy-Faye Baker? Her crush on him is really shameless. I wonder what her hubby who is overseas thinks of this?  She pulls the double standard and hence, the target of some verbal bitch-slapping from your’s truly! She actually makes the anti-feminist slam against Guergis at the end of her miserable post.

Should be somewhat amusing to watch although really, go home Helena.  Resign your seat and take care of your baby.  Leave this stress behind, we all know it’s not good for the new one.

Nice.

Is Tammee suggesting that Helena Guergis stay home barefoot and pregnant? Or all women?

She is claiming to hear the rumours some of us have been hearing that perhaps the Liberals may be courting her, but Guergis is holding fast to her Con roots; either she runs as a Harpercon or an independent.  It seems, though, that Tammeee Rightchik and her commenters are just outraged; just outraged, I tell you, at the idea of her crossing over to the Liberals. What are you scared of? Why should you care? If Steve is running that star candidate, Dr Kellie Leitch (assuming the rumours are true, of course), why should you worry?

And that is the mystery. We know why Steve won’t take Guergis back, as that would mean Stevie Spiteful would actually have to humble himself and publicly eat crow. It may be possible that she may have cause for legal action, not that Steve would allow it to go anywhere. But, I want to know why anti-feminists like Rightchik Tammeee are so afraid of her? From what it looks like, they don’t even want her sitting as an independent or even a Liberal.  Although, the latter, I’m not inclined to believe will happen and I wouldn’t recommend that for the Liberals. Another post for another time, though. But why does she really want her gone?  We know it ain’t because she cares about the health of Ms Guergis or her baby. Caring isn’t in the repertoire of materialist ice-princesses like Rightchik Tammeee.

I also don’t hear a peep of outrage from Rightchik Tammee & the usual suspects regarding Jean-Pierre Blackburn’s little Tequila tantrum at an airport awhile back. In fact, I don’t think they even remember it.

As far as Rightchik Tammee’s faux concern for Guergis regarding her pregnancy,  it’s probably a helluva lot less stressful to work, many pregnant women have worked and will continue to do so, than the stress Stevie spiteful has caused her, not to mention that toad of a husband of her’s. Yes, he too may have been cleared of wrong doing by the RCMP, but he still strikes me as a toad.

To be perfectly clear,  I was highly critical of Helena Guergis’ behavior at the PEI airport, her use of sock puppetry (staffers writing to newspapers) and a few other transgressions.  Many of us were. But Steve never threw her out of cabinet, nor caucus for those sins.  Lord knows, we drew a lot of entertainment from the future revelations regarding her hubby when PI, Derrick Snowdy and all his sleaziness crawled out of the woodwork; remember #bustyhookers? I made a cartoon of  she and Jaffer in his and her straight jackets. I even had a visit from the PI Derrick Snowdy hisself at my comments section from a previous post, basically trying to put a muzzle on me.

We have heard that she was not a great minister of state for the status of women. Neither is farm girl Rona Ambrose. As a matter of fact, I don’t think Stevie spiteful would allow anybody to make any kind of effort with that portfolio.  Given his coveted majority, I daresay he would scrap the status of women portfolio altogether.  That outta to make our shoe princess happy.

Here’s more from earlier in her post:

Unlike Bernier, Guergis showed no remorse in the potential scandal, she proclaimed loudly her innocence and became quite – well – insistent that she did nothing wrong.  And while she may have done nothing wrong criminally by allowing her husband to use her office showed poor, very poor judgement.

No remorse, no repentance and without those she will find no redemption.

If Guergis had good grace (and good sense) she should have immediately resigned, apologized and moved into the background – quietly!  She didn’t and consequently is now out of caucus, out of the party and out of time.

She apologized for the airport incident. Whether or not she was sincere is another story, wouldn’t be the first time a politician was insincere with an apology,  but she did it.  Apologize for what?  Oh yeah! Silly me! It’s a no no to defend one’s self, apparently. Not to the Messiah Steve. Steve is always right (pun intended!).   Why would Ms Guergis need redemption?

Perhaps Ex-Lax Max should apologize for attempting to defend hisself back when he fucked up too? Oh right, he’s a dreamy male and can do no wrong. Yes, Tammee, Ex-Lax Max blamed Ms Couillard for his problems after much denial. Selective memory?  Gawd, she’s shameless.

I was also highly critical of the double standard between she and Ex-Lax Max; the fact that she was kicked out of caucus for unknown reasons and Ex-Lax Max was not and he made the big boo boo.  The double standard by Steve and his cheerleaders. Julie Couillard was publicly blamed & humiliated in the corporate  media for the sins of Ex-Lax Max. Guergis was blamed for the sins of her toad of a husband.

Now, it has come out that both Guergis and Jaffer have been cleared of any wrong doing by the RCMP.

She still believes Ex-Lax Max is still accountable to the people. Tell me, dear princess, if he’s soooo accountable, how come I, a Canadian voter, is banned from commenting at his blog?  It’s his right to ban me, but don’t dare come out and call him accountable because banning me or anyone else from commenting at his site is anything but. Hell, I even excercised great restraint and laid off the profanity and nick names. I really did!

Once again, I also know, that you don’t give a rat’s ass about the health of Ms Guergis or her baby. Because, simply put, you’re a shallow, cold, heartless bitch who only cares about shoe shopping and make up, because, there’s nothing else. Nothing even remotely resembling substance to your pathetic life except to be the trophy wife of some Canadian Forces major.  I wonder if he knows how she fantacizes over Ex-Lax Max?

Indeed. You and your people claim the good folks of Simcoe-Grey want you to continue representing their interests in Ottawa.  Andy Beaudoin, the riding association’s riding secretary appears to be confidant of that. Ok, then, how  does CTV (Remember, the C stands for Conservative) get all kinds of video footage showing folks wanting to run you and your hubby out of town? I had read articles from your riding saying that folks were tired of you and your hubby’s antics.

Plus, your not wanted in Harpercon caucus; clearly.

Didn’t your mother teach you not to go where you’re not wanted? The question is, who doesn’t want you? The good folks of Simcoe-Gray? Conservative Caucus? Or both?

It’s clear to this day, Master Stevie and his Harpercons no longer want you around. My next question is, with the horrible way he treats even his female MPs in Caucus; why would you even want to subject yourself to that?

Maybe it’s just Master Stevie contolling his agenda yet again. Ooops! What do you know? Free speech from Harpercon detractors appears to be obstructed yet again. Oh dear.  Folks, you sure you don’t believe Master Stevie is not attempting to be a totalitarian; perhaps even a facist dictator? But I digress.

But riding officials also accused the Conservative Party of using heavy-handed tactics to replace Guergis with well-known Conservative activist Kellie Leitch, an orthopedic surgeon at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and director of the Health Sector MBA program at the University of Western Ontario’s Richard Ivey School of Business.

In a lengthy letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the Conservative electoral district association in Simcoe-Grey complained of repeated interference, obstruction and gag orders by Conservative headquarters.

“We don’t want to lose this seat in the next election. But head office personnel have deliberately interfered with, obstructed and circumvented our autonomy as an association, and our right to freely express our opinions,” the executive members wrote.

Some seem to argue that you were a fighter for women’s organizations. I personally don’t believe it, but I will give you the benefit of the doubt for the sake of the challenge I am about to launch.

Question is, are you up for it? Perhaps it’s time to put your political career to the ultimate test.

You have your own contacts in the riding of Simcoe-Grey who seem to be ready to support you.  Raising money is difficult, but again, if the riding still thinks you’re best suited to represent their interests in parliament, then it shouldn’t be too much of a problem.  If Folks working for   Conservative electoral district association in Simcoe-Grey, perhaps they can send some folks your way.   Run as an independent. Yes indeed that would be the ultimate test of the Harpercons, their new doctor star, Kellie Leitch and of course, yourself.

Simcoe-Grey isn’t Calgary West. It’s not what one could consider a ‘safe’ Harpercon riding. Liberals had it before you did.

What’s the worst that can happen? You lose? Well, if you didn’t run as an independent, you’re out of parliament anyway. In the words of Janis Joplin, my idol, “freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose”.  If you were to win, well,  I see it this way, with Steve’s numbers on the rise yet again,  one less seat for Harpercons is always a good thing. Plus, you can vote  against all of his confidence motions.  Yes, they say success is the bet revenge.  Well, for those who take the high road anyway. If you’re like me, revenge is a bitch best served cold.  If you  were to beat out the good doctor, Perhaps you should warn the good doctor exactly how Master Steve deals with his female MPs and support staff, particularly if they don’t behave like  good little girls.

A prominent doctor who looks after kids. Hmmm! Pediatric orthopedics (or any specialty) joining Harpercons as ‘star’ candidate = (no, not health minister; remember health not important enough for Steve to waste a star candidate on; it’s ditzs like Agluquack with not post-secondary education) Furthering the agenda to further Americanize Canadian health care. Oh Lawdy!

As for you Helena, my dear, the smartest thing you can do toward any end for your career is to dump Rahim. He just ain’t worth the trouble.

Update: Apparently the latest over at BCL is that it looks more and more like Helena Guergis will indeed run as an independent. More about that here. Notice that she still really wants to come back to the Harpercons. I’m not getting that. Why would anyone want to rejoin a party whose leader threw under the bus so publicly?

Anyhow, as I commented over at BCL,  I think the Liberals have a shot of taking Simcoe-Grey whether or not Guergis runs as an independent, depending what you hear and read.  Remember, as mentioned above, the riding association may claim Guergis’ constituents really want her back, but I remember CTV Question Period ‘randomly’ questioning folks on the streets of Simcoe-Grey, all claiming they were fed up of her scandals and the antics of Rahim Jaffer.

There is, of course, another factor at play here. It all depends on who Steve the master tactician plans to nominate for Simcoe-Grey. Rumour has it that he wants to run prominent Harpercon activist,  Dr Kellie Leitch as their ‘star’ candidate.  From all that I’ve read about her, she’s a very well respected doctor and academic. She could well take the riding back for the Harpercons with more than Guergis’ 2008 vote.

Thus far, Leitch has denied the rumour, although, as time goes on, she doesn’t seem to deny that it’s a possibility neither. We all know that sometimes rumours of this kind do have a way of coming out true.

After watching Question Period on Sunday and keeping up with the latest news, would the Liberals be trying to pave the way for Guergis to join them with that change in attitude regarding her?

More and more Liberal supporters feel sorry for her and fewer and fewer Harpercon cheerleaders are behind her.

Depending on what you read, it seems that the riding association of Simcoe-Grey is behind her as well as many of her constituents. I thought that she would run as an independent. But now, if the Liberals see how popular she may still be in Simcoe-Grey, would they have her run in the riding in their camp?

If so, sounds like an awesome opportunity for her to really stick it Stevie Spiteful.

However, as an independent, she can vote which ever way she likes on any given motion. She said she wanted to stay in politics; Steve won’t even let her run as a Harpercon. If the Liberals are offering her a place, maybe she should attempt it.

Oh and Helena, if you wish to remain with the big boys and girls of Canadian Politics, stop defending Steve or any higher ups in Harpercon party. You also can’t go crying the blues on the big tv screen, if you want to be taken seriously.

I believe she is guilty of nothing more than being married to a dud. Yes, there was the airport incident and other incidents, which is why the Liberals if they take her and should win any semblence of an election, please make sure she doesn’t get a cabinet position, as she has proven to be incompetent where that’s concerned.

If you really want to stay in politics, run as an independent. Either way,  you can’t go all Tammy Wynette here. Dump that deadbeat! What has he ever brought you besides shame, scandals that end careers and if he’s partying with busty hookers, he’s not even faithful to you.  You’re no longer a dreamy teen-ager, you’ve hit middle-age grouchdom; he ain’t worth draggin’ ya down!

Helena speaks out for the first time since being kicked out of Harpercon caucus.

Well,here’s a new take on the Mr & Mrs Disfunctional melodrama that I don’t think anyone quite thought of…Yes, Dodo! That’s gotta be it! We lefties secretly hate Muslims and we especially despise bi-racial couples…

However,  since it was Brother Steve who threw her out of caucus based on  what is now perceived to be unreliable information the Liberals turned down before Brother Steve caught wind of it from a less than honorable PI who is in debt up to his eye-balls; please, Maria S Nunes, be sure to put Brother Steve at the top of that list of racist Muslim- bi-racial -couple -hating- lefties.

Well, I did the nostalgic music thing last nite and haven’t done funnies in awhile. So, sticking to the theme at hand (I know, I’m shameless…).  How’s about some videos of the ‘finer’ moments of Hurricane Helena’s career??

Helena “the Bong girl” takes skiing lessons from Rick Mercer

Here’s a Good from A Creative Revolution: Math ain’t the only thing that’s hard for her it seems…

Oh, Helena, maybe you better breath now!

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

Happy Saturday Nite All!

Well, Iggy had been all over this Mr & Mrs Disfunctional thing from day 1 and now he seems to have a one track mind these days when it comes to Steve and the happy couple. He goes on about Steve’s breaking yet another promise about accountibility. I think Iggy needs to back off of that somewhat. Hint: The NDP nor the Bloc Quebecois seem to nowhere commenting about Canada’s new soap opera, The Middle-aged  and the Useless, which is exactly what this couple was; middle-aged and useless.

Yes, Canadians should know more as to why Steve is  sending the RCMP after Guergis (according to CJAD news this morning, this investigation would seem to have to do with Guergis alone and nothing to do with Mr Guergis)  and yes, this new acquisition of her’s, a swanky 800 000$ house  in Ottawa with what appears to be no down payment, that would otherwise have passed without an afterthought if not for the timing of said purchase.  Fact is, this is just another brick in the wall of Steve’s “transparent and accountable government”.  There is plenty more, but it’s looking more and more like forget the made for tv movie; I think we’re talking mini-series. This is a scandal; a rather entertaining scandal for some. Nothing more. Like everything else in Steve’s world, this too shall pass as it is relatively benign compared to other problems he’s been having as of late. If anything, keeping Hurricane Helena around had and more than likely, still will be the perfect deflection from more important matters like torturegate, climate change, the debate about covering safe abortions with G8 regarding  funding for women and & children in developping countries and probably even his potential choice of Governor General.

As for you Iggy, this will all unfold in the media within the next few days, weeks and perhaps even months to come. It will certainly be one of the most trending subjects in the blogosphere for a little while.  Just, let that unfold and only come up once in a while to let them know you’re still paying attention. As I pointed out earlier, the Bloc and the NDP appear to be leaving this alone for the time being anyway.

The Bloc won’t touch it because they’re busy resurrecting Quebec Sovereignty and besides, most Quebecers; particularly those who are unilingual French in the rural areas, haven’t a clue as to who Mr. & Mrs. Guergis are. It would be a waste of time for Duceppe to harp on that.

The N.D.P., who basically have nothing to lose or gain, seem to realize that there is nothing really to pounce on. Although, there were bigger issues of late for the N.D.P. to rail on (Quebec’s new health care plan in the Quebec budget and enforcing the Canada Health act is a major concer), but they didn’t…where are the N.D.P. these days, anyway?  Granted, Layton may be MIA because of his cancer and treatments, but where is Mulcair the mouth these days? I digress, but I will revist this one soon.

No, Iggy, all those items I mentioned above that seem to be on the back burner as the happy couple’s affairs exploded, should and must be brought back to the front burner. Show everyone you haven’t forgotten about more important issues like whether or not we broke international laws, why so many Canadians are still out of work, pension plans from former Nortel employees (and other such companies that went bankrupt), mismanagement of the books, the pettiness and non-necessity for these ‘tough on crime’ bills, his hypocrisy over senate reform and oh so much more.

Furthermore, like health care, Steve illustrated quite well that ministry of state for the status of women is not an important ministry: I’m sure that someone else who made this many or even less gaffs in another more important portfolio for Steve such as say…ministry of  foreign affairs would have been sent packing for less, surely.

Belinda Stronach more than likely knew how Harpercon women would be treated when she crossed the floor to the Liberals in 2005.

How much does anyone want to bet that Guergis was more severely spanked by the master for her temper tantrum at the airport in P.E.I. than Con MP Jean-Pierre B Blackburn for his tequila tantrum at the Ottawa International Airport?

Here’s something else  Iggy and the Liberals should chew on and go after brother Steve with, and yes, it partially has to do with the scandal at hand. Susan Delacourt’s column paints a portrait of a very woman-unfriendly Harpercon caucus.  Read it here. Delacourt basically illustrates how female MPs don’t generally go any higher than junior ministries (notable exception: Diane Finley, minister of human resources)  and they seem to be far more subject to demotions than their male counterparts. We may not like the beleaguered women Harpercon MPs Delacourt talks about but, she has a point.

In particular, Ex-lax committed an equally, if not more grave sin than Guergis when he was forced to resign from cabinet when Julie Couillard, his ex, decided to stick it to him. Yet, unlike Guergis, Ex-Lax Max was not kicked out of caucus. I would even venture to say that he is all but forgiven, even in the right winged media. In fact, I would go so far as to say that he would eventually come back to cabinet if he weren’t a potential threat to Steve’s continued leadership.

The fact is, many Canadians after drinking the kool-aid of the right winged media don’t care about accountable and transparent government. If they were, Steve wouldn’t be forgiven this easily for transgressions since prorogation.  In fact, many are viewing this as simply the Liberals’ manipulation to distract from adscam. Now here’s a dead horse that seams to continue coming back from the dead, in spite of the fact Gomery already reported his findings, the cops from operation Carnegie are out of the country or doing other things these days, players have either been prosecuted and properly disgraced or are dead, thus taking whatever secrets, if any, they had to the grave.

In fact, it is strange that Adscam is crawling back front and center these days in light of the growing scandals with the Disfunctionals  at Harpercon HQ.  Except for a few on and off grumblings, it is only coming back to life now.  Iggy (or any other subsequent Liberal leader for that matter)  is going to have to bury this issue once and for all. No, not with an investigation; for the reasons I mentioned above, it would  be pointless. Fact is, Iggy was still teaching in the U.S. when Adscam came along. With the exception of  whatever Canadian news was available to him at the time, I suspect Iggy probably never gave it a second glance. He doesn’t own it. Nor should he take ownership. He should make that known somehow. But Iggy, for the love of Gawd, don’t pull a Steve and throw Jean Chretien under the bus; something tells me you (and subsequent leaders of the liberals) will need his help in some shape or form in the not so distant future.

So, Iggy, there you have it.  Canada Health Act, the poor treatment of Harpercon women MPs, the books and mismanagement thereof,  insipid crime bills, their hypocrisy regarding senate reform and putting adscam to bed once and for all. Keep an eye on the ‘investigation’ of the happy couple, but don’t pounce on every little thing. Believe me, the media will surely even let  us know when the happy couple breaks a toenail.

At least, in part anyway?

Another conspiracy theory perhaps, but is it so far-fetched? I mean, after getting such a public boot and Steve obviously, dutifully putting square pegs into round holes in an effort to justify keeping her around only to give her such a public boot out of conservative caucus that should have sent her running as far away as she can from Ottawa.  Surely, there is more to come.  Why on earth would she stay on as an independant? Why would anyone with half her troubles?

Could it be that this whole debacle of yesterday’s was planned by Steve or at least, senior Harpercons in advance?  I mean, do Bob Fife and Iggy have a point when they find this house purchase of  Guergis suspect?

My guess is that  she won the riding of Simcoe-Grey by a thin margin, indicating that the riding would be far from being considered a ‘safe’ Harpercon seat.  The folks in her riding basically want her gone, they have expressed that much.

Steve, on the hand, while his numbers are higher than those of the Liberals, they still reflect that if an election were held today, he would only yield another minority, even a reduced minority. He can ill afford to lose any seats now. If  Guergis were to go, the seat would be empty and thus, a nomination would have to take place for the cons, and the inevitable by-election. Something tells me that no matter who the Harpercons would nominate to run in Simcoe-Grey; he or she would lose, thus, surely giving an extra seat to the liberals.

Yes Bob Fife, Iggy and others who are suspicious of this mortgage deal may well have reason to be. But, for Iggy, it would be a bad idea to devote his time sticking to that issue.  What Iggy should do is keep an eye on that without pouncing at every little thing. If he continues on that path, he too, could alienate the voters of Simcoe-Grey and they perhaps vote in an NDP candidate or even vote in the new Harpercon by simply staying home and not voting.

I would ordinarily do nostalgia on Saturdays and who knows? I just may do another one tomorrow as I had planned another Janis Joplin evening with some more stories and songs about the Pearl, herself.

Funny how best laid plans go to pot. I was going to post as to why Iggy’s screaming at Harpercons persistently over Mr and Mrs Disfunctional is getting overkill, to the point where this bad tactic will backfire miserably on him… stay tuned for that one. I will give a hint,  certain just seem to be hell bent on beating that 10 year old adscam dead horse. Points out the hypocrisy of not only Brother Steve who campaigned in 2006 that he would clean up Ottawa.  Since Steve is less than candid and Harpercon cheerleaders not only defend him through thick and thin, they have proven that they don’t really care about accountable government. More later, I promise, in a separate post.

Had to put it off, due to the fact  the site was down for awhile and after frustrating chats with tech support from my hosting provider, I just don’t feel like further research right now.

Pale put on some very apropos tunes. However, I have different ideas for music to commemorate the occasion.

Enjoy!

The first describes the happy couple to tee

Those who were in high school in the 80s would surely remember this goody.  The opening lyrics definitely describe Helena horrible; the rest of the song,well, describes the trashiness of it all. This song also works quite well for Ann Coulter and Dr Jabba the Roy when posing together for pictures.

Carol Pope certainly was before her time. The anti-diva after our hearts…

The next title is self-explanatory

Then, of course, the theme song of Mr and Mrs Guergis… If I knew how to do videos, I would create a video with my pic of the happy couple in a straight jacket and stuff. Oh well, the lyrics certainly suit them.