tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31415271.post6235187434027112873..comments2023-09-22T06:22:50.820-06:00Comments on Ken Chapman: Harper, Layton, Duceppe - the New Coalition of Political Hypocrisykenchapmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11384045981190810115noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31415271.post-72095294781193829822009-09-20T10:05:14.314-06:002009-09-20T10:05:14.314-06:00Layton has said he will continue to support Harper...Layton has said he will continue to support Harper for as long as it takes to get EI through. Harper will now do everything in his considerable power to delay any EI reform bill being actually passed. Layton will be the victime on intemittendt reinforcement and be sucked into supporting all kinds of dangerous and destructive ultra conservative political proposals. <br /><br />What will it take to break a sustained support of Harper's government by Layton? Layton by declaring this kind of support is as good as any formal coalition. <br /><br />He has painted himself into a political corner that neuters him and his party. It also hurts the people he says he is trying to help, the unemployed. <br /><br />Again self-perpetuating political pragmatism trumps good government and sound public policy principles. This time it is Layton who copying the Harper approach to politics. <br /><br />Sustain power at all cost is the goal of the political gamesmanship being played by both Harper and Layton while good people continue to suffer all over this country through no fault of their own.kenchapmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11384045981190810115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31415271.post-55170269286453509092009-09-20T09:50:22.355-06:002009-09-20T09:50:22.355-06:00Propping up is not a coalition!Propping up is not a coalition!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31415271.post-12479206901241999282009-09-18T15:54:59.386-06:002009-09-18T15:54:59.386-06:00I think people should learn from the 2006 PC Alber...I think people should learn from the 2006 PC Alberta Leadership Contest.<br /><br />If the provincial PC's, ND's and Libs were smart they would all be buying Wildrose Alliance Party memberships and voting for the person who is NOT the perceived front runner. <br /><br />Why is it only Libs can play that game? LOLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31415271.post-3488909514381806722009-09-18T09:07:58.515-06:002009-09-18T09:07:58.515-06:00Well, it's right that the federal Liberals are...Well, it's right that the federal Liberals are finally acting like the official opposition, forcing the Tories to rely on smaller parties to remain in office. The political situation is inherently unstable and will remain so until (yet another)federal election is called to clarify it. If the NDP and/or the Bloc choose to prop up the Tories for the short term, that is not an inherently bad thing, even if they have to eat merde to do so.Glen Argannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31415271.post-43714687982054703942009-09-17T19:24:48.775-06:002009-09-17T19:24:48.775-06:00Harper is able to argue all of sides of an issue. ...Harper is able to argue all of sides of an issue. He's against the coalition...unless it supports him. I am amazed that voters are so disinterested in politics that they don't see the hyopcrisy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31415271.post-59758325347402575572009-09-17T17:07:19.861-06:002009-09-17T17:07:19.861-06:00Another expected appointment by "Top Soil&quo...Another expected appointment by "Top Soil" Eddie. Calgary is making poor Eddie quake in his rubber boots. What a useless tit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31415271.post-30852011729816638822009-09-17T10:58:40.523-06:002009-09-17T10:58:40.523-06:00What's interesting is that ultraconservative M...What's interesting is that ultraconservative MLA Jonathan Dennis has been appointed Parliamentary Assistant for Energy. Watch royalties be abolished - we'll never get our fair share.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31415271.post-7278534292720817992009-09-17T10:41:55.128-06:002009-09-17T10:41:55.128-06:00Ken,
Not that I am the full-time blog-pro you are...Ken,<br /><br />Not that I am the full-time blog-pro you are, I posted something similar on my own little blog (newsarepta.blogspot.com).<br /><br />Being the Green candidate for Vegreville-Wainwright (call me Sysyphis), I'm torn between wanting the election so Canada could potentially send someone serious to the Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change in December, personally I don't want another election because I know the toll it takes on my family, farm and (real) job.<br /><br />The hypocrisy flying around this potential call to the polls is stunning. The only real thing that will come of another election is more voter disgust and apathy. Canadians simply aren't stupid enough to forget the stands each of these parties had a few short months ago and who sided with whom.<br /><br />This whole scene reminds me of the bits of Orwell's 1984 when history kept changing, each time being erased from record to create the impression the current situation had always been so.<br /><br />As for Mr. Jaffer, you are right; we have to wait to see if he is convicted of drunk driving and possession of cocaine. If he is, I will be pretty tough on him. I remember his radio ads at the end of the last campaign telling voters that his party opposed the de-criminalisation of marijuana because it opposed getting young people hooked on drugs. It was a direct attack on the ND and Green policies. More hypocrisy. <br /><br />If the charges are valid, it will be interesting how the Conservatives distance themselves from Rahim (and you know they will).Berry Farmerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03447299342398591508noreply@blogger.com