Speaking of Whiny Bitches
Sheila Copps replacement as biggest idiot is profiled in the Winnipeg Sun.
Call her a liberated Liberal. After spending a quiet decade in Ottawa as a relative unknown, Carolyn Parrish has emerged on the national scene as a mouthy maverick MP who shoots from the lip.
Oh no...How long before they call her "spunky."
Love her or hate her, but don't expect her to shut up any time soon.
No, no it can't be...The author seems to !gasp! like her!
"All he did was harden my attitude. I'm not bullied easily and he was attempting to bully me," she said. "The next day I had firm resolve that I was not going to back down from any of it."
Oh that's rich! The day she made the comment she first denied that she made the comment, then, when confronted with the fact that reporters had it on tape, she whined begged and pleaded with the reporters to not use it so she could stay out of trouble.
Such firm resolve! Such incredible bravery!
Bitch
It wasn't too long ago that I was lamenting the loss of Sheila Copps, because her insane leftist rantings and willingness to spend public money on her vanity projects was always good for a rant or two.
But for every idiot that stumbles and falls, another will arise to take his or her place...
"I offer no apology for passion or moral indignation," Parrish states
How 'bout an apology for idiocy?
"It's very easy for people to dismiss me as some kind of overreactive lunatic,"
It surely is, Miss Fruit-Loop. Guess somebody told you to take a hard line, rather than the pathetic backpedalling you did last time.
"But it really did cause the media across the country to look at the issue."
The issue, of course being that the bleating sheep of Mississauga-Erindale keep giving you a soapbox from which you spew your vile anti-U.S. venom, without punishment or hindrance, and that your party hasn't seen fit to toss your sorry ass to the curb.
AND THEN: Jon at Blogulaciousness posts the full text of Carolyn's email response, in which she shows the world her incredible superiority, vanquishing all her opponents and declaring herself the all-knowing expert on all things idiotic and missle-y...
A Good Question
Rue's asked a question. A good one, that I think deserves an answer. C'mon Lefties! Justify the hate-on you have for W:
What brought this on you wonder? I'm sick of reading blog entries by people who are by no stretch of the imagination even the least bit knowledgeable about politics pontificating upon the evils of President Bush, a.k.a. The Devil.
So here's your chance to stand out from the masses. Make your argument. Please be succinct.
Name a specific Bush policy that effects you personally. That takes away your rights or imposes suffering upon you as a private citizen.
So here's your chance to stand out from the masses. Make your argument. Please be succinct.
Name a specific Bush policy that effects you personally. That takes away your rights or imposes suffering upon you as a private citizen.
Why is W hated so much more than Bush Sr. or even Ronald Reagan?
Martin's in town
Cabinet Arrives Today
I guess this shows how much I'm paying attention to the local scene here in the beautiful Okanagan Valley. The PM and his accomplices were able to sneak into town without me having enough over-ripened tomatoes at hand.
At least the choice is clear
Mark Steyn
I remember a couple of days after Sept. 11 writing that weepy candlelight vigils were a cop-out: the issue wasn't whether you were sad about the dead people but whether you wanted to do something about it. Three years on, the two conventions drew the same distinction. If you want passivity and wallowing in victim culture, the Dems will do. If you want to win this thing, Bush is the only guy running.
More Useful Idiots
Canadians join anti-Bush rallies in New York
Do these poor deluded fools really think that if Bush goes, America will leave Iraq? The one thing that Kerry's not flip-flopped on is the fact that America has made a commitment to Iraq to see things through to the end. Their appearance will mean nothing to the war in Iraq.
Scores of Canadian activists...
Oh my. How does CTV define "scores?"
About 140 protesters...
Ah, I see. "Scores."
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CONSERVATIVES 'ON VACATION' AS SUPPORT SLIDES
THE SUMMER disappearing act of Conservative Leader Stephen Harper and his party has some members grumbling as a new poll shows the party's popularity dropping in every region but Western Canada. The SES/Sun Media poll of 1,000 Canadians taken earlier this month has the Conservatives' national support dipping by four points to 26% from the party's 30% showing in the June 28 election.
Funny how the collective unconciousness works. I was just thinking about this. Just as my political juices got flowing, the Canadian election was over, done, finito. I've been relegated to watching the U.S. election from the sidelines (honestly, fellow Canadians, which election has been more entertaining?) wondering when the hell Stephen Harper was going to go on the attack...I'm still waiting. I want to see political blood in the streets.
The poll shows Martin's Grits with the support of 38% of committed voters. The party has made post-election gains in every region of the country except Quebec. The New Democrats are also up slightly since the election, with 17% of committed voter support.
Anyone want to make a bet that if that Liberal number continues to climb that we may go back to the polls sooner rather than later.
SES pollster Nik Nanos says he isn't surprised by the party's downward slide, noting the Conservatives haven't been pro-active since the election, allowing Paul Martin's minority Liberal government to keep the Commons dark for three months, with hardly a whimper of protest.
The problem seems to be that the Conservatives have ceded the initiative: the government can hunch down and weather storms - the job of an opposition party is to attack attack attack. They should be making as much noise as possible about anything and everything.
It's not as if there's nothing to criticize, is there?
UPDATE 7:22PM Pacific Time - Damian Penny, a much more popular commentator than I am is thinking along the same lines...
Familiarity Breeds Contempt
The more I know about John Kerry, the greater my disbelief that this was the best the Democrats could do - will the fact that he's not Bush be enough to deliver the White House into his hands?
But with Kerry, even before any gaffes or scandals, the official narrative makes no sense. He's publicly opposed to the Vietnam War. But he volunteers for it. Then he comes back disgusted with his experience in war, publicly hurls his medals away (or someone else's: that story keeps changing), denounces his fellow veterans as war criminals, torturers and rapists, and claims that he personally committed atrocities.
But let's all forget that - He's NOT Bush.
But then he decides to run for president and suddenly Jane Fonda morphs into John Wayne and all those war criminals are war heroes he wants at every rally and he's got his medals back and his disgust at his wartime experience has mysteriously turned into pride in his wartime experience to the exclusion of all else.
He's - tee hee - "reporting for duty!" And he's not Bush.
For decades, John Kerry has told anyone who'd listen that at Christmas 1968 he was on an illegal mission inside Cambodia. On the floor of the Senate in 1986, while attacking President Reagan for turning Central America into another Vietnam quagmire (wrong as usual), Kerry said: "I remember Christmas of 1968 sitting on a gunboat in Cambodia. I remember what it was like to be shot at by the Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge and Cambodians, and have the President of the United States telling the American people that I was not there; the troops were not in Cambodia. I have that memory which is seared – seared – in me."
Just one problem. It never happened. Every living officer up his chain of command says Kerry was never ordered to Cambodia. At least three of his five crewmen say their boat was never in Cambodia. And if you don't believe any of his fellow veterans, read the excerpt from Kerry's own journal published in Tour Of Duty, the recent hagiography by Douglas Brinkley.
On December 24 1968, Kerry was at Sa Dec – that's well inside Vietnam, 55 miles from the Cambodian border – and waxing wistful to his diary about a quiet Christmas far from home: "Visions of sugarplums really do dance through your head and you think of stockings and snow and roast chestnuts and fires with birch logs and all that is good and warm and real. It's Christmas Eve."
Just one problem. It never happened. Every living officer up his chain of command says Kerry was never ordered to Cambodia. At least three of his five crewmen say their boat was never in Cambodia. And if you don't believe any of his fellow veterans, read the excerpt from Kerry's own journal published in Tour Of Duty, the recent hagiography by Douglas Brinkley.
On December 24 1968, Kerry was at Sa Dec – that's well inside Vietnam, 55 miles from the Cambodian border – and waxing wistful to his diary about a quiet Christmas far from home: "Visions of sugarplums really do dance through your head and you think of stockings and snow and roast chestnuts and fires with birch logs and all that is good and warm and real. It's Christmas Eve."
Brought down by his own journal entries!! Well that's one difference between Bush and Kerry, if the worst (leftist view) about Bush is to be believed: At least Bush can lie effectively. That alone would make me side with Bush, if I were American.
I still can't believe that this was the best they could do. But the Democrats could've put Pee-Wee Herman up as their nominee, scream "He ain't Bush!" and still get the same number of votes...
I still smell Slick Willie and Hillary behind all this for 2008. Kerry's the sacrificial lamb. It's the only thing that makes sense.
Michael Coren
When I left Ontario I knew I would miss certain things, but one thing I was determined not to to miss was Michael Coren Live, the best Canadian political roundtable discussion show on the air. Why? Because it has something so many similar shows do not: balance and time to actually discuss the issues beyond a 30-second sound bite. That's the reason I went satellite rather than digital cable when we moved to BC.
An excerpt from his latest Toronto Sun column, this time talking about one of my pet peeves: smug, superior Canadians (and others) who "know" everything better.
...frankly, I am sick of the smugness, the hypocrisy and the sheer hatred evinced by so many people towards the United States.
I've had enough of certain risible Canadians inflating themselves by claiming superiority over their southern neighbours.
I'm tired of the America-bashing from mediocrities the world over, and the blaming of every conceivable problem on Washington.
The last straw was, in itself, not particularly significant. It was when cyclist Lance Armstrong was spat at during the Tour de France. Spat at because he is an American.
I've had enough of certain risible Canadians inflating themselves by claiming superiority over their southern neighbours.
I'm tired of the America-bashing from mediocrities the world over, and the blaming of every conceivable problem on Washington.
The last straw was, in itself, not particularly significant. It was when cyclist Lance Armstrong was spat at during the Tour de France. Spat at because he is an American.
That kind of contradicts that "we don't hate you, we hate your government/George Bush" line that's popular when bashing the U.S.
We do not know his politics, but his girlfriend, Sheryl Crow, is an opponent of George Bush. That didn't matter. The man was American and thus worthy of disdain.
Betcha Sheryl's telling him that he "deserved" it because look at what America has done to the world.
Look indeed.
For leaving half a million men on the battlefields of Africa, Asia and Europe during the Second World War, a conflict the United States could easily have sat out. For effectively forcing Japan to declare war and thus joining the alliance of light against the gang of darkness. God bless America.
For that farm boy from Nebraska who had never even heard of Normandy or Sicily, who wanted so much to walk back from the hill but continued on, the bullets flying over and around him. For his not turning back. For his determination to do his duty and for his dedication to freedom. God bless America.
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For the billions in foreign aid, greater per capita than any other country in the world. For the food, clean water, medicine, machinery given to every continent on Earth. For the Marshall Plan and Marshall Dillon, for Tom Sawyer and Tom Hanks, for New York and for the New Deal. God bless America.
For that farm boy from Nebraska who had never even heard of Normandy or Sicily, who wanted so much to walk back from the hill but continued on, the bullets flying over and around him. For his not turning back. For his determination to do his duty and for his dedication to freedom. God bless America.
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For the billions in foreign aid, greater per capita than any other country in the world. For the food, clean water, medicine, machinery given to every continent on Earth. For the Marshall Plan and Marshall Dillon, for Tom Sawyer and Tom Hanks, for New York and for the New Deal. God bless America.
But, of course, in Canada we're better than all this, aren't we? Aren't we?
Do the Eurocrats our politicians suck up to really know how much better we are because we're trying to be so like those losers in Paris: morally ambivalent, intellectually smug, and righteously bankrupt of any ability to show true leadership?
Whither the Heckler
Is there any form of political animal lower on the totem pole than the heckler?
Especially when it's soon-to-lose Liberal Cabinet Ministers:
Immigration Minister Judy Sgro of York West and Veterans Affairs Minister John McCallum of Markham Unionville showed up at separate events to protest the Conservatives' positions on abortion and defence spending. The Markham event turned into a pushing and shouting match that had several dozen members of the new Conservative party, former Progressive Conservatives and Liberals all shouting at each other, jostling signs and chanting.
And that idiot John Nunziata (former Liberal MP and moonbat Mayoralty candidate) said on a local talk show this week that voter apathy would be a critical factor this time around. Sorry that was the last election. Nice to see you keeping up, John.
"When you have senior cabinet ministers at street protests, I think they're pretty worried. If the Liberals keep acting this worried, they'll keep building our momentum for us," said Mr. Harper.
"They've been out of practice. Usually when you do a protest, you get other people to pretend they're ordinary people, you don't send out your own front bench to do the protesting. I think they're running short of shock troops. They look pretty desperate."
"They've been out of practice. Usually when you do a protest, you get other people to pretend they're ordinary people, you don't send out your own front bench to do the protesting. I think they're running short of shock troops. They look pretty desperate."
Regime change begins at home.
When Ms. Sgro attempted to confront Mr. Harper over Conservative MP Rob Merrifield's comment that women considering an abortion should be required to be counselled by a third party, Mr. Harper brushed past her and scoffed: "You better go door knocking Judy, you're falling behind in your riding."
Ha Ha. Nice one.
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