Wednesday, November 07, 2007

A Conservative majority: definitely not worth the risk. Their propaganda says that the Liberals have no priorities, that they aren't worth the risk, that their leader is anything but; and yet, the Tories' priority is to flood the airwaves with attack ads when there isn't an election and the prime minister and chief bully, himself, says he doesn't want one. If this is how a sitting Conservative government behaves, how it leads, when it has a minority...no, I don't want to finish that nightmarish thought. I've said it before: when it comes to arrogance and hypocrisy, the Tories make the Liberals looks like dilettantes; now I need to add belligerence to the list. Yes, when it comes to being shameless pricks, red doesn't hold a candle to blue. (For any Americans reading this, it's reversed in your country.) Suffice it to say, Stephen Harper has brought his "A" game to Canadian politics -- "A" for "asshole." Speaking of the hypocrite in charge, he's notoriously standoffish with, if not downright hostile to, the press, but has no qualms about bribing the media, including news networks -- shame on you, CTV -- to run his party's attack ads. Funny thing, that.

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