Change the Liberal leader but nothing else will change
December 8, 2008 · By Charles Anthony
Unless the Liberals succeed at creating more than just a cosmetic change, my suspicion is that nothing is going to be different in the House of Commons even AFTER a 2009 election. Finally sacking Dion and replacing him with Ignatieff seems like a good start — better late than never — but the Left-wing vote will still be split.
All I see is style, image and a desire for power coming from the Liberal Party. I have not encountered any substantial policy recommendations. When are politicians going to actually discuss policy? Not even John Manley has anything to offer on the policy front. By the way our politicians are acting, I am starting to doubt that there is an economic crisis. It is not enough to simply say: “It is the economy, stupid!” without any recommendations for handling the economy.
Could it be that there exists no policy recommendations to debate? Just a thought.
Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said he has received input from the separatist Bloc Quebecois about the budget he is developing, but has not received proposals from the Liberals or the New Democratic Party, the two other opposition parties.
The Libs will put Iggy at the helm of the party because he looks good and all the liberal idiots will vote for him…….because he looks good. They will not give two hoots about his damaging policies of taxing us to death. Those on the left will happily sit at home on their butts collecting the government handouts they “feel” they deserve while the rest of us work our butts off to pay, pay, pay.
I agree with you Charles! Can you believe it? I just fell off my chair!
The “economic crisis” which the media loves to flaunt and cheer has largely been manufactured by the media. They just love to sensationalize a time of economic weakness with words like “crisis” and “meltdown”.
The Liberal leadership revolving door.
2004 out Chretien, in Martin
2006 out Martin in Dion,
2008 Layton & Duceppe join Dion for one spin
2009 out Layton, Duceppe & Dion in Iggy.
How long will Iggy last?
2003 in Harper
2004 Harper
2006 Harper
2008 Harper
2009 Harper
This country is a fiscal mess, and a real horror for anyone who actually wants to work for a living, rather than sitting back and collecting welfare payments (like one well-known blogger out in Ontario who runs a blog and an aggregator but refuses to work).
It is mainly for this reason that we cannot allow the Liberals to get back into power. This country needs to lower its income taxes substantially (it’s against human rights for households to spend 45% of their annual income on taxes, but this is the current situation in Canada).
I agree: most of the crisis stuff is exaggerated by the media and the radical left (like global warming). They use it to push their radical leftwing agenda (as they do with global warming).
Wilson! Good point! There is something to say about stability in leadership and Harper has stayed the course.
Werner! I agree totally. The global whiners do nothing but cost us even more money with their stupid programs: programs that do zilch in the grand scheme of things because THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGE.
Suzuki, Gwynne Dyer and the Toronto Red Star are constantly screeching at us about the big lie that is climate change and between them and Al Fatty Gore, they are laughing at us all the way to the bank for being so stupid to believe such a hoax. Tell everyone you know: global warming, climate change, whatever they call it (they have to keep changing its name because their theories are constantly proven wrong) is a lie.
wilson on December 8th, 2008 10:17 am [#]
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Hmmm Wilson,
Harper, once Liberal, then PC, then Reeeeform, then Alliance then Conservative.
Haprer’s political party revolving door.
Where are all the dipper trolls coming from?
Instead of hi-jacking the thread and bringing up prefab posts like that global warming one, we could probably talk about Ignatief as Liberal leader and what the implications are.
For the Liberals, I think it’s going to be more of the same. Ignatief is both a gaffe machine and an elitist. I don’t think he stands a chance debating any of the major party leaders.
However, as stated, based on image alone and style points, if the budget fails and an election were called, the Liberals might win back some seats.
If Harper doesn’t take a step or two closer to the center, he’ll never get that majority. You can’t change the country you live in. You need to be in tune with your voting public and not everyone is far to the right. I guess Dion learned not everyone was far left:)