Playing Nice ... Not Really
It is edifying, albeit hardly surprising to look at the visages of the Liberal leader and his minions as they triumphantly harrumph their disgust at the presumed wrong-doings of Conservatives whom they claim are responsible for the May 2011 election 'robocalls' instructing potential voters that their polling stations have been moved, harassing people with phone calls purporting to be from the Liberal camp, etc.
The point of all of this skulduggery which they and the NDP are pleased to lay at the nakedly splayed feet of the 'gotcha' governing party is that, had these illegal and truly dreadful anti-democratic manipulations not occurred it would be the Liberals, not the Conservatives, sitting pretty as the dominant party in the House of Commons.
They wish. They simply cannot get it through their Liberal-unenlightened heads that their days of easy entitlement have come to an inglorious end. It is the public being fed up with their weak policies and nasty sense of entitlement, allayed with the obvious stench of pork barrelling that led the public to vote them into a tiny, wee, minuscule presence in Parliament.
Well, oops, and dear me, a flaccid, dignified apology from Bob Rae. Not his fault that a "perfectly nice" Liberal staffer in the House was so fed up with the outrageous accusations levelled by Vic Toews of sympathy with child molesting-pornographers against those who balked at the provisions of Bill 30. Because of the assault on this decent Liberal apparatchik's sensibilities, Vikileaks 30 was born.
In his profoundly profuse apology Bob Rae described the crusading, ethics-lapsed Liberal staffer as a "perfectly nice, hardworking individual who showed a real error in judgement", but he was "upset" which led him to that dark place where he sought to reveal to the world Mr. Toews' socially, private, unpleasant side, dark like the far side of the moon.
"But we all agreed that was no excuse", Mr. Rae said prissily. "Nastiness begets other forms of nastiness, and at some point you have to stop", he sniffed. Was that a veiled message meant for Trudeau Junior, perchance, one wonders? Doubt it, however.
A rash of apologies ensued, from Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird, acknowledging that it was, alas, not the dastardly New Democrats after all who had planned and executed the embarrassment of the Justice Minister. And Minister Toews, while accepting the Liberal apology, has spoken to the Speaker to look into Trudeau's Twitter campaign.
To which the irrepressible Trudeau-in-a-box tweeted: "I'm sorry for my part in this, Vic. Now let's move on to real issues. Like electoral fraud."
The implication of which is....?
A Postmedia News and Ottawa Citizen investigation revealed evidence last week of a "systematic voter-suppression campaign" in highly contested ridings during the election. Liberal leader Bob Rae will ask for an emergency debate in the House of Commons on Monday. Photograph by: Handout , CNSPICS
The point of all of this skulduggery which they and the NDP are pleased to lay at the nakedly splayed feet of the 'gotcha' governing party is that, had these illegal and truly dreadful anti-democratic manipulations not occurred it would be the Liberals, not the Conservatives, sitting pretty as the dominant party in the House of Commons.
They wish. They simply cannot get it through their Liberal-unenlightened heads that their days of easy entitlement have come to an inglorious end. It is the public being fed up with their weak policies and nasty sense of entitlement, allayed with the obvious stench of pork barrelling that led the public to vote them into a tiny, wee, minuscule presence in Parliament.
Well, oops, and dear me, a flaccid, dignified apology from Bob Rae. Not his fault that a "perfectly nice" Liberal staffer in the House was so fed up with the outrageous accusations levelled by Vic Toews of sympathy with child molesting-pornographers against those who balked at the provisions of Bill 30. Because of the assault on this decent Liberal apparatchik's sensibilities, Vikileaks 30 was born.
In his profoundly profuse apology Bob Rae described the crusading, ethics-lapsed Liberal staffer as a "perfectly nice, hardworking individual who showed a real error in judgement", but he was "upset" which led him to that dark place where he sought to reveal to the world Mr. Toews' socially, private, unpleasant side, dark like the far side of the moon.
"But we all agreed that was no excuse", Mr. Rae said prissily. "Nastiness begets other forms of nastiness, and at some point you have to stop", he sniffed. Was that a veiled message meant for Trudeau Junior, perchance, one wonders? Doubt it, however.
A rash of apologies ensued, from Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird, acknowledging that it was, alas, not the dastardly New Democrats after all who had planned and executed the embarrassment of the Justice Minister. And Minister Toews, while accepting the Liberal apology, has spoken to the Speaker to look into Trudeau's Twitter campaign.
To which the irrepressible Trudeau-in-a-box tweeted: "I'm sorry for my part in this, Vic. Now let's move on to real issues. Like electoral fraud."
The implication of which is....?
Labels: Democracy, Government of Canada, Human Relations
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