Black Monday

This has an October 1929 feel to it. (Begin sarcasm)It sure a good thing that we have two major parties running the country who know that spending billions of dollars to run around the countryside in Afghanistan, while cutting taxes at home (and bringing our treasury to its knees as a result), is a proven plan to help Canadians weather the economic storm on the horizon (end sarcasm) .

Update: The fact that the oil states are even talking about decoupling their currencies from the U.S. dollar, sends a chill up my spine.

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If You Want To Know What The Conservative Plan Is....

Just look south, where the combination of a ruinous war and tax cuts have combined to cripple the government's ability to maintain national services.

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Mission Accomplished

The vote to extend the "mission" has had one success. It has liberal pundits writing "serious" pieces about how the "mission" is moving away from a combat focus. The fact that that is complete nonsense is secondary. The victory is in the propaganda value of such pieces. Inertia will guarantee the Tories (and their little Liberal poodles) at least two to three years of such glowing treatment, until reality, finally reasserts itself. So kudos to the Tories for at least one victory in the Afghan war.

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For God's Sake Don't Talk About The War!

Other than Militant Liberal, there is a deathly silence over at Liblogs about last nights Afghanistan vote travesty. In their silence lives shame, I guess.

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2011? Did We Say 2011?

Cuz, we meant 2013 and that's at the earliest. Hands up, those of you who think that if Bush NATO asks Canada to sign on, Harper will refuse? And what will the Liberals do? Rub their chins, look serious, complain about how cruel fate is and then vote to extend, again.

Update: Don Martin at least, does not play the fool (unlike the Liberal Party):

Yet thanks to the unification of the governing Conservatives and the opposition Liberals yesterday, Chief of Defence Staff Rick Hillier can claim to have received a parliamentary morale boost for the troops.

Far from pulling out of combat and leaving Canadian troops armed with shovels and good intentions, the decision essentially endorses the status quo with a preferred emphasis on training and humanitarian work. (emphasis mine)

In other words, the decision means whatever the government and the military want it to mean. It is a blank cheque and believe me, the Tories will cash it. Our troops and the the taxpayers of this country will pay the price. Thanks Liberal Party.

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Everybody Say It Together

DO YOU THINK IT IS EASY VOTING FOR A BILL PUT FORWARD BY A MEMBER OF YOUR OWN PARTY? Weiner, thy name is Dion.

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Warning, Liberals! Danger! Danger!

The government won't give accurate figures for the cost of the war in Afghanistan and it won't cooperate with the body tasked with the investigation of abuse of detainees. Still, that won't stop the Liberals from handing them a blank cheque today when the votes are counted on the extension of this travesty. You can almost hear the excuses coming down the pipe from the Liberal Party. "But we didn't know!" Well here, I am warning you. Liberals you are voting to support a disastrous war being prosecuted by a thug government. Don't you dare come back two years from now claiming to be victims. When you vote with the government today, you will be willing, complicit partners.

Update: The deed is done. Now the watch begins for the first Liberal to claim that the party was stabbed in the back, when the Conservatives act like nothing has changed and ignore the Liberals for the next three years. P.T. Barnum was right, there is a sucker born every minute, but the Liberals aren't suckers. They wanted to be fooled.

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