CINOs sell out

Liberals and NDP, too.

“That this House, while recognizing the importance of vigorous debate on subjects of public interest, expresses its profound sadness at the prejudice displayed and the stereotypes employed by Maclean’s Magazine to denigrate the Quebec nation, its history and its institutions.”

The “Quebec nation?” Are you kidding me? And still nobody in the Big-3 voted against the motion after hearing that phrase? No, not one. In a delicious irony, the only MP to object, independent Quebec MP Andre Arthur.

What’s that, Jane? A “separatist trap,” they say. Oh, it was a trap alright, but here’s what this lowly peasant doesn’t understand….

How is it that career politicians and alleged “smart people” could not figure out that there was no way out of what the Bloc had planned? How is it that the lot of them, like a pack of fools, thought there would be any good come from pandering to the Bloc and Quebec just one mo’ time? How is it that not a single Big-3 MP possesses the balls to kick the Bloc in the crotch when they introduce asinine motions?

Instead, now, in addition to selling out on free speech and freedom of the press, we have the Big-3 on record endorsing the “history” and “institutions” of the “Quebec nation.” Nice. Real nice. Can’t wait to see how THAT plays out. Morons.

And you wonder, dear CINO party phone worker, why I won’t take out membership or give another dollar to the party?!?!

Answer: my money is going to Andre Arthur, the only MP in the House who didn’t sell out to appease the Separatists.

NDP House Leader Libby Davies, how do you respond?

In the not too distant past (March 13th of this year actually), Libby Davies spoke to Parliament regarding the decorum of the House:

When is this going to stop? Things are really bad around here. People who watch us from the gallery or on CPAC are appalled at the kind of behaviour that takes place. To somehow characterize this as we are shutting down criticism or legitimate debate, that is not what this is about. This place is about debate, analysis and criticism and we do that every day, but this is about the kind of personal attacks that are being made.

We should be calling on the Speaker to stand by his ruling and to say to the majority of members of the House, I would dare say from all parties and maybe some people do not feel comfortable saying it, to support the Speaker’s ruling. I believe that things have gone too far. We should be upholding our Speaker. How many times have we called on the Speaker to intervene and to bring back decorum? He is trying to do that, and we should support what he is trying to do. You did it today, Mr. Speaker.

In light of recent events, I wonder just how self-righteous the House Leader for the NDP is feeling about her party’s commitment to restoring order and decorum to the House of Commons when her Leader, Jack Layton, is being implicated in orchestrating a virtually unheard of disruption in the House of Commons himself?

“…somehow the NDP organized the protest in the House is ludicrous. There is no conspiracy except in the mind of the Government House leader. The fact is we knew nothing about the protest.”

And Jack Layton’s press secretary Karl Belanger?

“Ya, that’s right. We organized a protest to interrupt our Leader during his question. Clearly, it was a socialist plot from the NDP.”

‘ll admit, it’s a weak suspicion with no proof, but hey, since they opened the door to conspiracy, does having a protest take place during one of their own speeches give some grounds for plausible deniability? Hey, it’s a weak argument, but that’s what you get with a weak defense.

So ultimately, if the NDP are in fact to blame for this ruckus, can Ms. Davies truly stand up in the House of Commons any longer and preach about NDP desires for decorum with any credibility?

Harper’s Options on the Coalition Government

Andrew Steele provides ten different options he feels are available to the Prime Minister.

He missed another option – proceed with the vote as scheduled next week.  After losing the vote visit the Governor General and request the dissolution of parliament and an election call.  If the GG rejects that request and hands the opposition parties the key’s to the government, Harper and his caucus could resign – effectively forcing the GG to dissolve parliament and hold a general election to fill the 70+ (mostly safe Conservative seats in western Canada) vacant seats.

If you think we’re in a crisis now, just imagine if that option was exercised

Update: Bourque has a poll up on this last option: 54% say yes to the mass resignation.