Mid-Week Musings
1. Stephen Harper has his first casualty as Maurice Vellacott resigns. It may not be as exciting a way to go as over Romanian strippers, but I'm sure it still hurts.
2. If anyone can find a picture of Diane Finley with the horrifying glasses she keeps wearing to QP, I'll be forever grateful. (UPDATE: Apparently Diane has a medical condition requiring them which I wasn't aware of. Now, as for Stockwell Day's rainbow coloured tie he wore on Monday, I wonder what message he's trying to get across)
3. Not only does Bob Rae's site avoid the use of the word "Rae", the main banner seems to be devoid of Bob himself. Or maybe it's pictures of people named Bob. Or people who like "What About Bob?". I'm a little confused.
4. In fairness, I'm finding the unexpected attack of the pdfs on Gerard's site a little annoying.
5. Paul Wells is back blogging and his post saying thatJean Chretien Tony Blair should sack Paul Martin Gordon Brown has spawned a few comments among Libloggers. For the record, I think Chretien was in the right to fire/quit Martin - no Prime Minister should be expected to tolerate someone actively campaigning against him. That said, it's very much debatable if that was the right strategic move since it allowed Martin to be even more overt in his plotting.
6. Anyone want to take bets on when Andrew Coyne ends his hiatus?
7. The race for the right to complain about the Green Party's exclusion from the leader's debates is on.
2. If anyone can find a picture of Diane Finley with the horrifying glasses she keeps wearing to QP, I'll be forever grateful. (UPDATE: Apparently Diane has a medical condition requiring them which I wasn't aware of. Now, as for Stockwell Day's rainbow coloured tie he wore on Monday, I wonder what message he's trying to get across)
3. Not only does Bob Rae's site avoid the use of the word "Rae", the main banner seems to be devoid of Bob himself. Or maybe it's pictures of people named Bob. Or people who like "What About Bob?". I'm a little confused.
4. In fairness, I'm finding the unexpected attack of the pdfs on Gerard's site a little annoying.
5. Paul Wells is back blogging and his post saying that
6. Anyone want to take bets on when Andrew Coyne ends his hiatus?
7. The race for the right to complain about the Green Party's exclusion from the leader's debates is on.
posted by calgarygrit at
4:31 p.m.
20 Comments:
I thought I'd died and gone to heaven when I saw Finley sporting shades in the HOC. However, they are as result of a health problem she is having so that one should be left alone.
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SteelCityGrit, at 5:16 p.m.
CG, you forgot to mention Bob Rae's Munich comparison. Comparing Bush/Harper to Hitler/Chamberlain.
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Eric, at 5:30 p.m.
bye bye Vellacott....he shouldn't have been chair of the Aboriginal committee in the first place....
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Sean S., at 6:08 p.m.
Mr. Chretien firing Mr. Martin was absolutely correct.
The Finance Minister of a country cannot publicly muse about whether he wants to keep his job. The negative impact of such musings on the country's finacial markets is incalculable. No self respecting PM would allow that to happen.
The musings by Mr. Martin were calculated to have himself fired to create outrage amongst his followers and amongst those who might have been thinking it was time for Mr. Chretien to go and to free himself for the leadership wars endgame.
It worked.
To Mr. Chretien's credit he did not take the politically expedient route he actually took the best decision for Canada and Canadians.
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ottlib, at 6:27 p.m.
And I am sure Diane Finley will be grateful if you can find her a cure for Grave's.
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Peter Loewen, at 6:27 p.m.
If Rae apologizes for the Munich Pact statement or fudges on it the CPC and Kinsella and right wing blogs will never let him forget.
It will never appease them. He should forget these guys...they are not his supporters anyway. Once they blog surge you and you twist...they own you.
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riley dog, at 6:48 p.m.
I'm surprised Rae would slip up like that - he's usually a fairly well spoken politician. There was media there Friday so someone in the media must have heard it, right?
I wasn't aware of Finley's medical condition...I guess that explains it.
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calgarygrit, at 7:17 p.m.
Hmm, you can apologize for trying to make fun of a medical condition, or you can make a thinly-veiled reference about someone's tie.
I would have gone with the first.
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Peter Loewen, at 7:33 p.m.
CG--One would assume that there were in fact reporters present. Hmmmm.... I wonder why they let Bob's foray into the land of ill concieved analogies slide???
Oh well just one of those mysteries of life. Although I am going to include his effort in the 2006 LPC Leadership Race Award for Hysterical Hyperbole.
Syncro
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syncrodox, at 8:03 p.m.
The medical shades still makes Finley look cool, but in a more like roy orbison wore shades kinda cool.
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bza, at 9:31 p.m.
"Apparently Diane has a medical condition requiring them which I wasn't aware of."
I thought she was trying to be one of the Blues Brothers.
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daveberta, at 12:16 a.m.
In his statement, Count Chocula look-alike Vellacott said, "I submit to a sovereign God to provide me that opportunity at some point in the future."
If he's religious that's fine, but I don’t understand why this nutter needs to yammering on and on about God all the freaking time. That's like Harper’s God Bless Canada, recitals. Someone needs to remind this crowd of fundamentalists that Canada is not the southern U.S.
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Dale Kirby, at 8:36 a.m.
not the southern U.S. yet...I'm just saying that some of the Denny's are starting to carry grits, so the Cons are probably ahead of the curve on this one. I for one welcome the day when a NASCAR event is all I need to take my mind off the damage the last tornado did to my trailer...ahh sterotypes...good times
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Leny Vilekoskytch, at 9:00 a.m.
You're right. Gerard's site needs a little technical work.
PS - I really hope you guys pick Bob Rae. :)
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Michael Fox, at 10:52 a.m.
CG -
when does Kennedy's personal blog get started? I'm very excited by the promise of said blog, but wonder why its taking so long to put it together. Surely, he must be bursting with insights to share with us.
Do you know?
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Tarkwell Robotico, at 11:59 a.m.
dog: The Greens have a fairly strong opportunity to present a serious threat to the NDP. Harris' policies were incoherent compared to his European and American counterparts, and the simple fact that "fiscally conservative and socially liberal" is a joke wasn't much help.
(Social programs cost money, and environmentalism generates the kind of red tape that "fiscal conservatives" abhor. You can't have your cake and eat it too.)
The Greens stand a chance of exploiting the NDP's dwindling popularity with Labour to steal away the eco-conscious, non-union left voters that both the NDP and Liberals are attempting to court, and the NDP is just as vulnerable a target as the Liberals.
(It will also harm the conservatives, because a weaker NDP means likelihood that the NDP will drain away Liberal support, as an NDP fighting on its own left can't effectively challenge the Liberals on theirs.)
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Demosthenes, at 1:03 p.m.
If the Green Party couldn't do better than fourth place even in its "strongest" ridings, it will not win a single seat. Elizabeth May and her Sierra Club pals are irrational extremists, nothing more, who are, at best, somewhat effective lobbyists.
The Greens stand a chance of exploiting the NDP's dwindling popularity with Labour to steal away the eco-conscious, non-union left voters that both the NDP and Liberals are attempting to court, and the NDP is just as vulnerable a target as the Liberals.
What "dwindling popularity" are you talking about? The two last elections have seen the NDP recover its traditional support base, while attracting new supporters as well.
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JG, at 1:32 p.m.
Not to put any damper on the fun to be had by bashing Rae, but for the record and what it's worth, he did not compare either Bush or Harper to Hitler or the Nazis.
He was comparing the statement made by Chamberlain "peace in our time" to the supposed softwood lumber peace. Hitler stole Czechoslovakia from the Czechs and the Munich Pact gave it a rubber stamp. The US stole $5B from us and we said here's $1B for your troubles. And everyone knows very well that the fight isn't over for the US lumber lobbyists. So in a sense there is a comparison between the two deals and not every reference to Germany from 1933 to 1945 is a making someone out to be a Nazi or to Hitler.
BUT (in all capital letters)....
... it was still a very inappropriate analogy.
It wasn't so bad as to merit the kind of screeching from the conservative blogosphere and certain conservative-supporting bloggers and Rae should be smart enought to recognize he can't control how people interpret his statements, but there are a million better ways to make the point.
I should also note that I'm glad to have seen a rather negative response from Liberals at the convention itself since many conservatives seem to want to portray this as a typical Liberal/liberal approach to argument.
Ted
Cerberus
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Ted Betts, at 2:48 p.m.
_I "royally stepped in it" as well in regards to Ms. Finley's medical condition. It was diagnosed and publicly revealed about a month ago.
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CQ, at 3:19 p.m.
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