California, Here We Come?

Is California a "successful" outcome for the Republican/CPC "starve the beast" strategy, and is this what Psycho Steve has in store for Canada when it comes time to pay down our deficit?

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Economic Forecaster Fail

Globe and Mail headline: PM delivers rosy economic report. What else is new?

Here we have Steve giving stock tips just as the Stock Market was tanking.



So, are we supposed to believe Steve now?

Update: It really doesn't matter if anyone believes Harper or not. Our pundit class, the official opposition, and the other opposition parties have no stomach to call Harper a liar and dump his sorry ass. The Liberals are waiting for their numbers to go over 40% (think of it as sort of like a road company production of Waiting For Godot) and the other parties are waiting for Jesus to return.

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Please, Please. Please

Under the headline: Replace Raitt With Gallant:

Minister of Human Resources Lisa Raitt shouldn't have the option of voluntarily stepping down, she should be fired. By allowing her to continue at her Cabinet position, PM Harper has shown us once again who, in his Conservative caucus, he will back at any cost and which ones he will snub at the least bit of controversy.

Prior to the campaign leading up to Harper's first minority government, Cheryl Gallant had been an all-star MP under the old Canadian Alliance Party, and, after the merger with the PC's, the Conservative Party of Canada. She was one of only two Alliance candidates to be elected in the Liberal stronghold of Ontario at the turn of the millenium and had held several portfolios for her hard work.

Then, in the summer election of 2004, the media created a smear campaign against Cheryl for her strong pro-life and anti-abortion views. Rather than back up his own MP for expressing her personal views, Harper muzzled her and denied her a cabinet post after the election.

Cheryl would have been a suitable Minister of Defense as she has an important Military base within her riding and some experience with the military herself. Even after Gordon O'Connor messed up in 2007 as Minister of Defense, Harper didn't bring in Cheryl during his cabinet shuffle.

Now we have Lisa Raitt, someone who we can't even take seriously after her arrogant words on the subject of Chalk River, getting full backing by the PM. Why not replace her with someone who has a more vested interest in the future of AECL? The uncertain future of the Plant not only affects those lives who depend on medical isotopes for cancer treatments, but the employer of the largest number of jobs in the Upper Ottawa Valley. With the stakes this high, the job should fall on the Member for Renfew-Nipissing-Pembroke - the riding that AECL Chalk River and its employees reside.

If there is a God, please make this happen.

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Congratulations Mr. Dexter

On winning a "majority" government. I suppose asking you to fix the electoral system is a waste of time?

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When The Isotopes Run Out

Is when the shit is really going to hit the fan. I bet the Tories are just counting the hours until summer recess.

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Do You Think Baird Has Read The Polls?

Transport Minister, John Baird, to Toronto. "They should fuck off."

Update:One of the more bizarre elements of this story is the idea that Toronto does not qualify for the grant because the manufacturing jobs created as a result, are in Thunder Bay, rather than Toronto. Perhaps Mr. Baird can explain what is wrong with Thunder Bay? Aren't they Canadians too?

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Say What?

If I told you that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the follow:

"I am not a citizen of the world, I am a citizen of the Iran because only in the Iran does citizenship start with our creator."

Would you be surprised? Or, how about this line:

"The notion that we are just one of many among equals is nonsense, Iran is a "blessed" nation, he said, calling Iranian revolutionaries' defeat of the Shah "a miracle from God's hand."

What if I told you it was, Newt Gingrich (substituting United States for Iran) and Mike Huckabee (substituting the United States for Iran and the Shah for the British). Truly, they have more in common with the theocrats running Iran than they would likely admit. Behold the Republican Party. The party of choice for Mullahs everywhere.

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