Funny

[cottonpicken]

No matter how you land on the political spectrum.

Isnt it spooky funny how during the greatest finicial crisis in the history of the world our parliment gets shut down for two months?

And nobody has really mentioned it?

I could think of a few non-partisan projects those goof balls could be working on.

Its like a bunch of firefighters taking a coffe break while a five alarm blaze is going on.

[mustardman]

Yea
but the time out is for a good cause. Another $300 million election or should I say Canada's idea of a stimulus package.

There is no way that Steve should have to govern with a minority he deserves to have a majority and he'll keep having elections till he gets one -unless someone reign him in-

[mustardman]

Not only is the fire deparment having coffee while the place burn down they are starting fires as well.

[bucket]

300 million for an election is still cheaper and more democratic than allowing Layton(and his union buddies), dion and ducceppe to spend 30 billion or more on a mandate they do not have.

[dfarms11]

My only question about having another election is, is it just us westerners that are angry with the thought of the 3 morons taking power? Are there enough angry people from out east to switch from voting liberal/NDP/BQ to PC?

[mustardman]

Here's a novel idea how about trying to "govern" with a minority instead of being the bull in the china shop.

Remember our flag , our system of medicare the pension plan was all put through cabinet with a Minority gov't under Pearson.

The trick is don't have a leader who is a dink

[agstar77]

Let's keep having elections till Steve get's the result he wants. Why did he call the election in the first place, Parliament was dysfunctional and now it's a whole lot better? Let's face he is a control freak and can't stand consulting with others. They better all learn to get along. Dion, Harper and Layton should take a 1 yr holiday, we would all be better off.

[Fransisco]

This is the kind of leadership mustard is looking for.

http://thechronicleherald.ca/Canada/1094499.html

Liberals to fire videographer

OTTAWA — Stephane Dion’s chief of staff is firing an underling to cover her own mistakes in preparing a poor-quality video for national broadcast Wednesday, Liberal sources say.

The video, which was out of focus and oddly framed, was delivered late to the networks after Prime Minister Stephen Harper addressed the country.

Johanne Senecal, Mr. Dion’s chief of staff, emailed CTV on Wednesday night saying she was "livid" over the error and promising to investigate how it happened.

"I apologize for the poor quality and the lateness," she said in the email.

On Friday, Liberal sources said, she moved to fire Mick Gzowski, the party’s veteran videographer.

She did that although he didn’t have enough time to professionally produce the video because Mr. Dion’s inner circle did not finish the text of his speech in time, Liberal staffers say.

"They gave the video guys 25 minutes to shoot 20 minutes worth of video," a veteran Liberal staffer said.

An investigation will show the video crew isn’t to blame, the staffer said.

"Email traffic will show they were screwing around with text hours later than they should have been."

Ms. Senecal could not be reached for comment Friday. She was motivated to fire Mr. Gzowski, one staffer said, because the Liberal caucus was looking for blood.

A staffer said Mr. Dion and his team have lost the confidence not only of the Liberal caucus but also of Liberal staff.

"I am a f---ing Liberal and I don’t think they’re competent enough to run the government," the staffer said.

[bucket]

Perfect example of what's wrong with having liberals run the country.

There was a blunder made by someone and they have to study the f****** mess. Worse yet is the fact they use taxpayers money to study why they could not produce a video on time and in focus.

You liberal supporters have to give your head a shake and ask if you really hate Harper that much.

[silverback]

I'm just kinda guessing that when Jack and Gilles were having breakfast the night after the election they maybe weren't too interested in hearing what Prime Minister Harper was planning for the next few weeks.

Plotting a coup will do that to a couple.

The trick is don't get into bed with socialists, communists, or separatists.

[Fransisco]

I'm betting Dion doesn't last another week. After running one of the worst elections in Liberal history, his bungled coup has now made the party a laughing stock in Canada.

Liberals don't like to think of themselves as hard left wingers let alone separatist sympathizers. With Bob Rae running around the country now reinforcing both of these negatives it's going to be a long time before the damage done to the brand will be forgotten.

[parsley]

Manley put the kiss of death on him. No turning back from that. Pars

[bucket]

You really have to wonder if good ole Saskatchewan is the leader of all that is good in this country. A few years ago some liberal mellonhead (I can't remember his name he was a doctor) went to bed with an NDPer and formed a coalition to govern sask. They did so for a few years but the liberal party is now defunct/extinct in Sask.

Here's hoping the same thing happens nationally. Maybe the ndp are good for something.Its certainly shows the liberals can't or will not learn from their mistakes.

Well played Harper.

[Jay-mo]

CP, back to your original point on the irony of parliment taking an extended holiday during this challenging time.

I know some people are trying to pin this on PMSH for trying to pass some controversial bills. However, even in a minority government do we really want the ruling party calling their plays out of the oppositions playbook??
For the so-called coalition, can they really look in a mirror and say that their attempted coup has or has the possibility of improving Canada's economic outlook?
I know Dion really believes this but the fact that he managed to get enough support to even bring this to the table shows how completely blinded by the hunger for power and just plain stupid alot of these mps really are.

I know we just had an election but I really believe the next two months are up to us as Canadians to make it very clear what we think of this whole mess.
Public pressure is what will cause this entire coalition to slither back into whatever cess pool it crawled out of.

[Fransisco]

Also back to the original point, are the boys and girls in Parliament really the firefighters or are they just adding more fuel?

I tend to think the later these days, so maybe its not such a bad thing that they're on the sidelines.

Having said that I heard Tony Clement the other day talking about how they still have money left from the previous budget to bail out the auto sector if they decided to do so.