Sombody Must Be Worried About The Overnight Numbers

Either that or the power of Facebook can no longer be denied!(Just kidding). Stephen "I can take a punch" Harper is coming out of his bunker to have a chat with Peter Mansbridge. Of course, I am sure Dmitri will soon come out and say it is all routine and this was planned months ago.

Update: Yup.

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Clarification From My Betters

Let me get this straight. 30,000 people joining a Facebook page is a joke, worthy of derision, but a government elected by just 22% of the voters of a country is supposed to be taken seriously? Really? Take both seriously, or deride both, but don't pretend that one is a more valid expression of the will of the people than the other. Please.

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Hear, Hear

Murray Mandryk writes:

For example, Senate abolition seems to be one of the few sentiments in which virtually everyone agrees with the NDP. (Anyone remember Stephen Harper's commitment to elected senators?) But does anyone assume this unequivocally demonstrates a federal NDP government commitment to adhering to every democratic principle? Certainly, those of us from Saskatchewan have a working knowledge of NDP governments that increased sales taxes (after promising to repeal the harmonized sales tax increase), manipulated election days (after promising set elections) and abused patronage appointments (after criticizing the last Progressive Conservative government for the same thing).

That said, what we're witnessing from Stephen Harper takes contempt for democratic principles to a whole new level and it may be even worse than that. Harper is using public cynicism as a blunt hammer to pound in the detour sign that allows him to get around the last bastion of true accountability for his PM0.

And that truly does separate Harper from those who preceded him. (emphasis mine)

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When Conservatives Get Outraged

Shorter Jack Granatstein: Canadian politicians should not practice domestic politics abroad. For me, anything other than what Stephen Harper has done in the past, crosses the line into anti-Canadian behavior.

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You Either Laugh Or Curl Into A Ball And Scream

The latest session of Parliament, with its committees investigating the possible war crimes of the government and the government's reaction, as an interpretive dance.

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Recommended Reading

Norm Spector's column. Read it and pass it on to all of your relatives who don't follow politics. Let them see what drives our Conservative government.

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Friday Fusion

Cantaloop. One of my all-time faves.

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