So, Ignatieff is going to hold his nose, or swallow hard, or whatever and allow harpo to govern.
I kinda expected this. I thought at the beginning of the prorogation that harpo would take this idiotic "do-over" and put together a compromise budget and that either the Liberals or the Liberals AND the NDP would cave.
It's too bad really. Now we've got a third-rate "stimulus" program, crafted by a monkey-brained doofus with no understanding of the role of government in any year after 1914.
I hope Liberal supporters take heed of Layton's admonition. If you want more of the same spinelessness, vote for the party that hides from parliament during confidence votes, the party that has been terrified for the past half-decade of facing the electorate due to its lack of any coherent platform. The reason it doesn't have a platform is because what it really believes in is the same unpalatable neoliberalism it pretends to decry. After Paul Martin's reign of austerity followed by listless incoherence, Canadian voters are pretty unenthusiastic for more of the same. But that's all the Liberals have got.
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Now we've got a third-rate "stimulus" program, crafted by a monkey-brained doofus
It wasn't only crafted by him; certain other parties were also involved.
Oh yeah, yet another independent blue-ribbon panel of wisemen.
I really wish the GG had let us give the harpocons that spanking!
I hope Liberal supporters take heed of Layton's admonition.
Silly thwap. Nobody ever listens to the NDP until it's too late. It's a rule.
Further to the pork barreling pointed out in that Ottawa Citizen article, I wonder if the $175 million to buy and maintain new Coast Guard vessels will go to Irving Shipbuilding Inc. (Another corp represented on that independent blue-ribbon panel.) Or what of the whopping low interest loans totaling $125 billion to the financial sector re: purchases of insured mortgages? How much of it will go to financial giant Power Corporation (also on the advisory panel)?
http://www.powercorporation.com/index.php?lang=eng
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