Oh look. Partisan bickering. Noooooo!
Say it ain't so.
As you are scrolling down the pages of PB, it is pretty discouraging to see all the pies getting thrown.
Ya see, that is why there is more people like me out here in the vast hinterland. (albeit they do not have a cool bathrobe with sheep on it and good hair like I do)
Our thing is, we all hate, is these partisanship pissing contests. Yup.
We find some get a little fervant when they join a party. Like its a......cult or something.
Many of us find that politicians spend large amounts of time shooting their mouths off at each other and that it is what halts all business.
We feel, sold out by all of your little parties at some point.
We are the ones that refuse to join you in endorsing any platform in it's entirety.
Now, the voters will decide Mr Layton's fate. As well as the fate of Mr Ignatieff, and that pasty substance currently residing as the Pee-Em.
In the meanwhile......This is counterproductive, and a massive turnoff, contrary to the messaging that the party fundraisers and recruitment keeps producing.
But, ya all go ahead. This is not like.....important stuff right?
And Harper, the great pasty white one is not sitting in his den right now, quaffing a few Buds laughing his fucking ass off at the pointy finger war going on with the Liberals and the Dippers.
Right?
Suckas.
I had a commenter at my site
Might as well be called a troll...I guess...hates all the opposition leaders...fair enough...but doesn't want to vote...not good...helps keep Steve in office.
Basically, I will do and blog about whatever gets Steve out of office, like I think most of us does.
Not this one: NO: I'll just copy and paste the goody, cause I just have no words to describe this myself.
I truly believe that the Canadian electorate needs the wake-up call of a Harper majority to remind them to pay attention, participate and vote. It’s going to be a painful four year and it will likely take us 10 years to rebuild all that Harper destroys. Disaster wakes people from their slumber and from it, real leaders are born.
Unacceptable. With an aging baby boomer population needing that social safety net; most won't survive. And he's dreaming. No such thing as "greatness". Folks will never really wake up from their apathy sadly enough, they'll just be beaten into submission to the point they give up.
Not to mention, I can see a Dickensian thing beginning with those big-assed super prisons for unreported crime and new insipid laws. We've seen from the G20 a hint of what would be to come; dissent would be illegal. Anyone speaking against the King would be harshly punished to put it mildly.
With those new fighter bombers, we'd look forward to being at war, or at the very least, threatening to be at war, with pretty much any nation that doesn't suit the king's whims. Much destruction.
They talk of terrorist threats. Well, I'm convinced that if Chretien never brought us to Afghanistan, we wouldn't even be a target. Now, with Steve's tough talk and his defiance with international bodies, he's made us more of a target from pretty much any group, really.
No one would have the strength or the will to even get Steve out of office then, because we will be so beaten into submission. Even if he got tired of his games and left or croaked, folks would be too fatigued to rebuild and whoever takes over after that would be too hamstrung to do much rebuilding.
As for me, as mentioned above; the quickest exit route for Stevie to get out of office is the goal. I'm a realist. I'm not expecting a lot from any gov't post-Harper. Just want Canada the way it was before Stevie and his rein of dictatorship. Greatness doesn't exist.
For me, I think this is a problem with a lot of Prog bloggers; they're expecting greatness; that pie-in-the-sky pipe dream. Proportional representation, Canada getting nailed for torture and going completely green or perhaps going socialist.
All nice things to aspire to, but stopped being a deal breaker for me a long time ago as I watched steve's path to destruction continue and the concerns of the center majority are not the priorities I've mentioned above. It would be a stretch to convince them to leave their fixation from Steve and his corporate media cheerleaders and now with the Kory Klan in operation, even more difficult, let's not try to convert them completely. If they're basic concerns are survival, like pensions, health care, jobs, housing, then the thing to do would be to convince them that Steve would put those basic needs of survival of average Canadians at great risk.
If we wanted all those other things, baby steps. Get Steve out of office first. Not going to achieve any of that when he is office and not voting just keeps him there. Ask Jean Charest.
Our common goal should be to get Steve out of office by any means at our disposal and to work with what we have; with the opposition leaders we have, for better or worse. Wishing them away isn't helpful. Steve is terrifying to say the least, with a minority, just think with a majority what he would do.
Until Corporate media can sell the virtues of the left, of NDP values; values of the old order of Ed Broadbent and Tommy Douglas, that is, the way that same media is selling the virtues of Steve's far right agenda...you get the idea.
Oh yeah, and Steve is still playing the coalition card. Funny, even though both parties are further apart from each other and the Bloc is reviving sovereignty in Quebec and Gilles has basically said that he won't participate with anymore coalitions, how much do you want to bet the Timmy Horton's crowd is going to swallow the fear of coalition, hook, line and sinker?
So who is that?
I have seen some say that the cons need a majority to teach us a lesson.....
Man. Like we would still have a country after that eh?
It's a fact: 100% of all the people who ate carrots in 1850, are dead.
He calls himself
Hopeful Joe. Funny name for someone who would actually advocate disaster in delusional thinking.
A harpercon majority to get a great leader to rebuild. Ha! hamstrung is more like it!
This.
This, yes.
Totally agree.
"And Harper, the great pasty white one is not sitting in his den right now, quaffing a few Buds laughing his fucking ass off at the pointy finger war going on with the Liberals and the Dippers.
Right?
Suckas."
Heaven forbid that the opposition parties should work together while in Parliament so that voters actually get a sense of what they might actually stand for.
They agree to odious legislation for fear of calling an unwanted election because their polling numbers are so-so. Well that tactic is not working - the opposition just comes across as ineffectual at best and hypocritical at worst.
Teflon Steve will not get nailed by all his nasty moves because they will be buried by the media as the opposition parties fight to prove they are not a coalition. But Harper knows that the only way they can wrestle his Conservative minority away in the next election is by having to cooperate. By failing to cooperate and ignoring Harper's record, he will have free reign to campaign on the country needing a strong majority to steer us through difficult economic times.
If one of em
Just one. Showed some leadership, people would take notice.
Right now they just all look like puddles on the floor. Oozing spineless masses of goo. Sucking up tax dollars and oxygen.
It's a fact: 100% of all the people who ate carrots in 1850, are dead.
so-so polling numbers?
More like tanked down the toilet.
The Timmy Horton's crowd whines and shrieks about going to the polls, and for some Gawd foresaken reason, they'll forgive Steve for murdering his grandma and choking his cat faster than say Iggy for whatever scandal or Layton for some white lie, you get the idea. Simply mind boggling. These opposition parties are at their mercy, as they are the majority.
Let me ask this question: As undesirable as it was for the opposition to swallow Steve's packed poison pills, what alternative did they really have, when you think about it? If they hadn't, we'd be looking at a Harpercon majority now. Would that have all been worth it? The Liberals were polling in a mere mid-20s; Layton never deviates between that 15%-20% mark; Bloc and Greens remain the same all the time, so yeah, mathematically, Harper could well have gotten his majority. Chretien didn`t need 40% to get his.
The quote I copied and pasted from my commenter Hopeful Joe above, in italics, do any readers or posters here agree with it? Please say it ain't so.