Friday, June 11, 2010

It's Over

The parties met yesterday about the Afghan detainee documents. The media didn't even bother to write about it. The government has won -- again. It must be lovely negotiating with people without backbones. It makes things so easy. We now officially live in an absolutist republican state, in everything but name. L'etat, c'est Steve.



Update: Shorter opposition parties: If you don't stop screwing around we are telling on you! This time we really mean it! To which I reply, why is this Monday's deadline any more sacred than the one from two weeks ago? Deadlines only work if they are, you know, final.

Instant Update: And when I read a sentence like "A spokesman for the Liberals said the talks are still proceeding in good faith.", I know that the fix is in.
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4 comments:

  1. *pats Greg on the back*
    *promises to buy drink, if there's a meet-up*

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  2. Thanks Ben. I need one today (although the futbol is cheering me up).

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  3. It was always about whether the opposition was willing to threaten credibly to vote down this government and fight an election on the issue. Seems not, just now.

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    Will there ever be a grand TO-KW blogger meet-up?

    I missed the other ones when I was living Stateside, and I still haven't managed to meet the trending-to-former Dippers on my blogroll. (You and Alan.)

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  4. Will there ever be a grand TO-KW blogger meet-up?

    Eventually. We usually coincide it with the grand arrival of Idealistic Pragmatist, on her yearly pilgrimage to U of Waterloo. This year however she went to Europe. James Bow, who is also a mover and shaker, is really busy these days. He and his wife are writers and they are being invited all over the place this year. I am headed to England and France in a few weeks myself. So, it may be a while before we call pull it off. Stay tuned because of course you are invited when it does all go down. ;)

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