For now. Wait a few hours, it'll change again.
Watching the PM-for-now on TV last night, I was struck by how meek he sounded. Things have spiralled up and out of his control so quickly. This is a man, remember, who relishes control, who craves it, who can never have enough of it. Every moment of the last election campaign was elaborately scripted. Every statement by the least member of the CPC must meet with Harper's approval before it's allowed to be uttered.
But now--whodathunkit?--a Liberal Party that can't agree on anything meaningful, with a leader so spineless he makes amoebas look rigid, somehow cobbled together a coalition with a whole other party in the space of a week...and is making it stick. So what does Harper do? Back down? Hell, no! He's out there telling Dion, buddy, I can outpiss you without unzipping. Dion's saying dis way to the pissoir, ami. And a pair of grown leaders are engaging in a giant pissing match, when last I looked, there's governing that needs doing.
Piss off.
Make no mistake, and characterize this as a socialist-separatist power grab if you have to: whatever you call it, it's entirely Harper's fault. Had he been the slightest bit willing to work with the other parties, rather than, oh, I don't know, trying to eliminate them, we wouldn't be here now. Even after he's recognized the corner he's back himself into, Harper's still unwilling to acknowledge the legitimacy of the other parties, saying that what they're doing is unconstitutional and undemocratic.
Bzzzt. Steve-O, have you read our Constitution? What the Opposition is doing is not only legal, it was put in there by design, just in case some boob came along, got himself elected PM in a minority House, and then decided to clap his hands over his ears, say "nah-nah-na-na-nah!" and ignore all the other parties.
So now it's off to the Governor General to ask her to prorogue Parliament. If I can't govern, nobody can, so there. And if she refuses to do so? If she instead takes little Steve by the arm, bends him over and gives him a few on the behind and tells him to act his age? Well, the rumour is then Stevie and his posse will take their balls and slink home quit en masse.
Meanwhile, down south, we see Obama appointing a bitter rival to a prominent post, keeping a Republican in another, and generally seeming to remember there's more than one side to any story. I never thought I'd be looking to America for better governance than what we've got up here--but then I never thought we'd go and elect a schoolyard bully to the highest post in the land.
3 comments:
Ken, you can't just blame Harper. How about the nearly 50% of eligible voters that DID NOT VOTE (citation needed), or the nearly 10% of people who did voted, wasted theirs and voted Green.
Factor those two in, someone would have had a majority and this mess would have been avoided.
10% of people who did voted? Did I just say that???
You know what I mean.
Wasted their vote by going green? Excuse me?? I look at the political climate as little as possible because I can't stand to see grown men and women whining about how they could do better. All sandboxes contain fleas and catshit, so they need to knock off the 'us against them' bullshit and do thier freaking job. Kill the fleas, get rid of the shit, and wow... a nice sandbox everyone can play in...
While I don't agree with everything the green party speaks on, I don't consider my vote wasted. How about we look at it this way - everyone who voted in this past election wasted thier vote. Clearly no one can agree on who should have this so called power over us. Do I agree with Mr. Breadbin - I don't know to be honest, but do I think that Stephen Harper is doing a piss poor job with what he has been given? Yup.
Thank God I voted Green. Maybe next time those other 50% will do the same. I say way to go Harper and all you other politicians. Keep showing the country what you are made of. Let's see how green we'll get next election...
Oh, wait a minute - doesn't the green party want to 'clean up'? Maybe a sandbox or two?
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