Iffy waffles again! (As Ardvark says at Biff’s, this is probably a new record.)
His handlers had originally put out a trial balloon that he wanted to have an ‘adult conversation’ about how to rein in the deficit (H/T Bec and Maz2):
Senior party insiders told The Canadian Press that the Liberal leader is about to launch a blunt discussion of the realistic options available for staunching the flow of red ink.
That includes tax increases, major spending cuts, remaining mired in deficit for years longer than anticipated, or some combination of the three.
Now suddenly the message changes:
Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff insists he has no plans to raise taxes.
Ignatieff issued a statement after senior party insiders told The Canadian Press that Ignatieff is about to conduct an “adult conversation” with Canadians about the painful measures necessary to eliminate the deficit.
O.K. So there are only two possible explanations here. Either Iffy changed his mind yet again, or else he has about as much control over his communications staff as he does over his Liberal Senators.
Far from being able to deal in the adult world, Michael Ignatieff reminds me of Dr. Dolittle’s Pushmi-pullyu – which Wikipedia defines as an “antelope/unicorn which has two heads at opposite ends of the body. When it tries to move, both heads try to go in opposite directions.”
If the Liberal Party of Toronto thinks that their Pushmi-pullyu is going to get them into power at 24 Sussex, then they’re living in a child’s fantasy world as well.
Or perhaps the adults are already quietly taking care of the problem.
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Update: Check out Kady’s analysis of the EKOS poll! (H/T National Newswatch)
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Friday Update: Hunter’s post is not to be missed!! A woman’s sixth sense. (H/T Alberta Ardvark)
That is the reaction of a petulant child.
cbc says they will have Iggy on live at another one of his boring speeches at 9AM East….Coffee up kids,so you can stay awake!cbc host says Iggy likely to face lots of questions re the new poll following speech.
He is done. Iffy is dead man walking. Not a chance he will recover. Iffy’s biggest challenge now is to get to hell out of the country carrying a thimble full of self-esteem. No one is going to let him do that. The liberal party will hobble him before they let him go. They eat their own.
will be interesting to watch the ass-kickers, trolls and hangers-on, making distance between what they have created and themselves – must be some other way to get back to their “entitlements”
wow, you wrote a good one this morning Joanne!
Being a Grandma hasn’t slowed you down.
Heh. Thanks Ruth. I’m away from the computer several times each day, but always checking in on news and comments as time allows.
But #1 priority is the new little ‘man’ in my life.
Go outside today kids. Last nice sunny day for a while in Ontario….calling for snow on Thanksgiving Monday north of Toronto.
The country’s in good hands. Be thankful…..start now.
Oh, and let’s all thank the LPOC for Michael Ignatieff because every time he opens his mouth it’s Christmas for Stephen Harper.
I say keep Ignatieff flapping his gums because it’s becoming clear that the more Canada see of Count Iffy the more they like and appreciate Harper.
Go outside….or for you guys in the west freezing this morning bake a cake.
“Adult conversation” eh!!
I guess that makes all us “Real Canadians” as irresponsible teenagers.
Do these fools even listen to themselves? Only a half wit imbecile like the type you’ll find in abundance over at Glibblogs would buy into such ridiculousness.
I have to wonder if all the insane comments the trolls have left on various blogs have educated non political readers on how much better our PM and his caucus and his supporters are. Do they ever think of the impression they leave tells us the mindset of liberal supporters. What will they do when we get our majority and they have at least 4 years to watch the country progress.
Medical emergencies can really keep one out of the loop. We had one Tuesday night. But they can make us appreciate our health care system also. Son had a heart attack (not overweight, obese, but a smoker) and rushed to hospital, sent to a larger city, then sent to Calgary and by 5.00p.m. yesterday had all the tests and operations necessary. No waiting and is resting well.
But, the comments and new posts kept me up trying to catch up. And, in all the restaurants, hallways, waiting areas we were in during this time, people are ridiculing Iffy. People are talking and paying attention. Hurrah for our side.
Latest Sympatico poll as of 1017hrs EST:
Do you see the federal Liberals as a party that is fit to lead, or one that is destined to sit in second place?
Fit to lead 14%
Stuck in second place 80%
Not sure 6%
15637 responses, not scientifically valid, results updated every minute.
There was no provision to vote them into third or fourth place.
http://www.nationalpost.com/scripts/story.html?id=2081144
Joanne, please place on your blog it looks an apology is in order from the opposition parties.
Reserve ordered 100 body bags
Health Canada cleared in report on flu controversy
Kathryn Blaze Carlson, National Post
Published: Thursday, October 08, 2009
‘Health Canada previously admitted it had “erred” in sending the body bags, but the report said it was Wasagamack’s nurse-in-charge who ordered 100 body bags on Aug. 12.’
Something else I’ve been wondering about..remember how we were constantly being reminded how contributions to the lib party were just flooding in? Why haven’t we heard about that stat lately?I’m thinkin’ this has slowed to a trickle,and no one wants to talk about it.As for our party…keep the money flowing kids! We need to be ready to fight the good fight.
Thanks Richo, from out in Manitoba. Too late, have already baked apple pies! Unbelievably nothing has frozen here yet, maybe tonight.
I am very Thankful Stephen Harper is the prime minister of Canada.
WILL THE LIBERALS APOLOGIZE?
http://www.nationalpost.com/opin…html? id=2079538
Bob Rae, meet Paul Jamieson
A vigilant Canadian civil servant in Kenya is smeared by the Liberals
National Post
Published: Thursday, October 08, 2008
Mr. I, ME, ME, ME, Ignatieff used the WE word this morning!
He said “WE have been getting some criticism”….
But then I I I I I want Canadians to see who IIIIII really am (as if that will change our impression of him?)
Oh,and if you have a negative impression of Me, Me, Me it is because of the evil Conservzatives “framing” Me, Me, Me so once I remove that big old ugly frame you will LOVE Me, ME, Me.
Do you think once we see more of this pugnacious blowhard egotistical lip licking vacuous girly man our impression will get better? Sheeesh.
“…no plans to raise taxes.” If Micheal had not been gone and missed it, he might know that this statement would be met with some disbelief especially in Ontario.
The Ekos poll results are interesting. They show a strong Conservative lead in Vancouver. This is very good news for the coming by-election. We are well ahead in the Liberal stronghold of Toronto. Yes you read that correctly, we are ahead in TO. The most encouraging thing though, is that the Bloc support is under 40%. This may not result in too many lost seats as the Libs and Tories are in a tie. But the drop is a good sign that Quebec may be backing away from the seperatists.
Is there a rumbly in Iffy’s tummy? Wabbit wants to know.
Iffy you go down in the woods today, you are sure to find another analysis:
Iffy Liberals may be suffering from a political bipolar disorder.
Symptoms as noted by experts include:
“Impulsive and potentially reckless behaviour”,
“Feelings of euphoria, extreme optimism, exaggerated self-esteem”; and,
>>> “Rapid speech, racing thoughts”*.
There is a consensus, even amongst libloggers, to wit,
“… what does it say about the state of our political system when party leaders have to deny reports that they’re going to treat the voters like adults?”
CGrit broadens the case to: “party leaders”; CGrit is in denial as only Iffy and his Liberals have imploded.
http://calgarygrit.blogspot.com/2009/10/warning-following-subject-matter-may.html
*urlm.in/ddyz
NeilD says:,
Hey you beat me to that posting on sympatico.
And your correct, no place for cellar dwellers, too bad.
All the best Mary T@ 10:08am and I’m sending buckets of ‘positivity’!!
MaryT, hope your son has a speedy recovery and is back on the road to good health!
:The Liberals said today they have uncovered even more federal spending on the promotion of the Conservative government’s economic action plan, taking the advertising budget into the realm of illegality.”
The Liberals voted for the Action Plan therefore it is the Canadian government’s action plan. But to Liberals any communication with taxpayer’s is “Conservative” advertising.
How stupid do they think we are????
Is it wrong to tell us about the Home Reno Tax credit, to alert us to the Action Plan and the website and how we can take advantage, to lift up the consumer confidence that good things are happening, to recruit for the military, to intercede for Elder Abuse, to promote the Canadian mint’s olympic coins, to any government communications of how our own money is being spent?
Would Liberals be happier crying that government programs failed because nobody knew about them?
Yes. I send best wishes for a speedy recovery to your son too, Mary T.
What it seems to boil down to is this, when Canadians think of Prime Minister Stephen Harper they think positive, they think of how he acts on the world stage, how he has dealt with the economic down turn, and of course his extremely uplifting performance last weekend that gave all Canadians a reason to smile and feel good about our future.
Contrary to the PM is Ignatieffs constant outpouring of negatives, pushing for an election when Canadians clearly do not want one, doing nothing in regards to Liberal senators inaction, the negativity in Quebec, add on the flip flopping and you have a man,and a party,that Canadians do not want any part of.
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Mary T, Hope all goes well
Rusty Shackleford said:
“”Adult coversation” sounds kinda like “Adult films” or “Adult content”
Hey! Maybe Iggy’s gonna go on TV and talk dirty to us!”
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“Ignatieff’s game changing tax hike talk is replaced with policy vacuum”
http://stevejanke.com/archives/293377.php
Thanks for the good wishes. Just checed with ICU in Calgary and he is being transferred back to the local hospital to finish his recovery. All went well, he was caught in the Golden Hour. But, my problems are just starting, he has to quit smoking and I don’t know if I can handle the withdrawal. LOL.
He never started smoking till he joined the army, can he sue the PPCLI or DND for a few millions. Seems to be the rage now.
[...] h/t Jen on Blue like You comments [...]
Iggy = Suck & Blow at the same time.
Robins, I suppose we could try to take that remark in a non-vulgar manner.
It was supposed to be non-vulgar.
Sort of a sit down and jump thingee
All best wishes to the ‘boy’ Mary T. from here in freezing Manitoba.No matter how old they are..they are still our kids,aren’t they?
Just watching a pundit on cbc (John Robson-Ottawa Citizen)..and did he blister Iggy and the libs! Said their main problem..both the party and especially Iggy is ARROGANCE..no policy,nothing to offer.made my day…and hope that makes you feel better too Mary!
BTW Mary,was your son ever in CFB Shilo,or Wpg?
sending prayers to your family MaryT for a speedy recovery
it is a reminder to us all how important our family is in the big game of life
One of the most appealing things about the Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper
is that he is a good father and husband he shows genuine concern for families
fh
Sort of a sit down and jump thingee
That’s what I thought.
What’s he going to do about senator Baker?
Baker is something else, isn’t he? Wow! I can’t figure out that guy’s game. Is he trying to prove the importance of the Senate? Or is he trying to torpedo Iffy? Or both?
Baker, has always been like that imo. Very caught up in his own self importance and that whole…sober second thought prayer that he so pompously preaches.
Baker gives both the Liberals and Newfoundland a black eye!!
Ignatieff waffles because he doesn’t know what he’s doing. He doesn’t listen to anyone, and those EKOS results are indicative of that. http://kendrosm.blogspot.com/2009/10/amazing-what-difference-few-months-make.html
Just caught the At Issue Panel,and of course Rex. Coyne isn’t that enthralled with the piano playing PM. The pollster thought iffy could have gained points if he had said something like, good on the PM, it proves politicians are human instead of what he did say.
Best line of Rex, IMHO, was referring to iffy, crashing like cymbols —-.
NO, he was never in Shilo or Wpg, (except for some training) but spent time in the east, Calgary and Edmonton.
He was in for 10 years. He and many others that joined when he did retired at the same time, when it became obvious that is you didn’t speak french you were going nowhere. And those that spoke french refused to speak english to the anglophones, both in Calgary and Edmonton.
McGiffy Liberal says: Fire those expert economists.
“far more than economists had expected,”.
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“Jobless rate unexpectedly falls
Employers create 31,000 jobs last month, far more positions than expected, sending the jobless rate to 8.4%”
Canadian employers created 30,600 jobs last month, far more than economists had expected, sending the jobless rate down three notches to 8.4 per cent.”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/crash-and-recovery/jobless-rate-unexpectedly-falls/article1318143/
Did any of you happen to catch Fife on Can.AM today? He must be in panic mode to save Iggy’s A**,he went on at length about Iggy not being written off too soon..he could turn this all around..blah blah blah..what a joke!
Iffy’s epitaph contains these words:
“wisdom is not just an ivory-tower phenomenon but the collective insights of a culture deeply committed to the life-and-death project of defending itself and producing the artifacts that make up its own civilized life.”
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“Athena’s Surprising Portfolio
By Charlotte Allen”
[...]
“The story of Athena’s birth is an allegory of the birth of wisdom: springing from the head, seat of the mind, after being nurtured by thought.
Through Athena/Minerva the Greeks and Romans personified wisdom as a female figure in contrast to their male gods of war (Ares/Mars) and the literary and musical arts (Apollo).
By imagining wisdom as a woman, they seemed to recognize that the acquisition of wisdom entails the reflection and calm associated with women, in contrast to the agonistic aggression that characterizes the male psyche.
The history of Athena’s cult, in which she was worshipped as a goddess of wartime strategy and the practical arts as well as of intellectual brilliance, might be viewed as another kind of allegory of wisdom: that wisdom is not just an ivory-tower phenomenon but the collective insights of a culture deeply committed to the life-and-death project of defending itself and producing the artifacts that make up its own civilized life.”
http://www.incharacter.org/article.php?article=176
Announcement from the PET Cemetery’s Liberal Arrogance-Fuddle-Duddle Committee.
Liberal Senator Baker’s epitaph has been received, recorded, and filed for future hanging on the PET Cemetery Wall of Shame.
Zap! You are frozen forever, Liberal Senator Baker. Iffy weeps.
The epitaph reads:
““It doesn’t help in the public view, I must admit,” Liberal Senator George Baker said in an interview. “However, if we didn’t do this, then it wouldn’t help in the justification of the Senate being in existence.””
Date of unveiling: TBA.
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“Liberal senators break with Ignatieff on law-and-order bill
Upper chamber grits amend legislation that the Liberal Leader had championed”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/liberal-senators-break-with-ignatieff-on-law-and-order-bill/article1317860/
anyone notice the words of the song sung by the Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper
“what would YOU do if I sang out of tune”
Ignatieff’s version from the leader of Ignatieff’s Liberals opposition party
“what would I do if I sang out of tune”
more I I I I me me me
priceless
fh
Further to Fh’s comment:
I think I missed this one first time around – Narcissieff.
Heh.
Liberal Iffy stalks crows with a long-gun shotgun; Iffy says, eating crow is my hobby, anonymouse sources say.
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“Bank of Canada Poll Shows Record Sales Optimism, Credit Easing
Canadian businesses reported record optimism about their future sales and said credit conditions were easing for the first time since 2007, according to a survey by the central bank.
Sixty-nine percent of executives said sales growth will quicken over the next year, while another 16 percent expect it to slow, the Bank of Canada said today in a quarterly Business Outlook Survey. The gap is the biggest since the question was first asked in 1998.
“Responses to the autumn survey suggests that the Canadian economy is recovering, as all indicators of business activity have increased,” today’s survey said.
The report is another sign Canada is emerging from its first recession since 1992, coming the same day that Statistics Canada said employers added 30,600 jobs in September. The central bank’s senior deputy governor said yesterday that Canada’s recovery may be slowed by a strong currency.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=av1Cq6Kzu.lM
Positive news stimulates consumer and investor confidence and continues the positive cycle.
Then you have Don Drummond, Paul Martin’s former DM during the slash and burn cutback years spreading doom and gloom.
He is on a speaking circuit telling business crowds and media how BAD things are going to be – don’t be fooled by those silly little green shoots. Was in Edmonton yesterday.
Isn’t Drummond also in Ignatieff’s policy kitchen cabinet announced a few months ago? Do you think it would be more honest if he was introduced as Liberal party financial advisor than his day job as a TD bank fellow.
And, how do you think TD bank is liking one of their own dashing ice water on consumer and investor confidence?
I just got my brand new copy of this week’s Macleans, and boy is it a keeper!! PM Harper & family on the front page. I don’t want to spoil the surprise, but it is a really clever cover!
Liberal Iffy is unemployable, identified* sources confirm.
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*”There was more good news – actual hours worked increased by 1.6 per cent.
More impressive, the agency said 91,600 full-time jobs were added in September, more than offsetting the 61,000 loss in part-time employment.
This reverses the pattern observed most of the past year as employers cut back by first reducing full-time workers to part-time status.
“This is the sound an economy makes when an economy recovers,” said Douglas Porter, deputy chief economist at BMO Capital Markets.
Economists consider employment a lagging indicator because employers usually will wait until they see clear signs that a recovery is underway and will be sustained before beginning to re-hire.”
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“Unemployment falls for first time since recession”
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2009/10/09/11354231-cp.html
Expert say, surveys show, economists assert, anonymous sources explain, “But critics say”:
MSM is not a liberal-left biassed org. Not at all.
This* quote is the second paragraph of the piece; it is one sentence:
*”"But critics say he can’t be trusted to keep his word, and the NDP says he’s already broken it.”
The first** paragraph is also one sentence:
**”Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he won’t hike taxes or cut spending to deal with the country’s ballooning debt.”
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Here is the link to the MSM’s Opinion Editorial on behalf of Liberal Iffy:
“Harper says he won’t hike taxes to slay deficit”
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20091009/harper_deficit_091009/20091009?hub=TopStoriesV2
P.S. “Many experts say”. Meet The MSM’s VOA, aka Voice of Authority; think liberal-left icon Uncle Walter Cronkite.
Latest blither with faux outrage,
Possible partisan media releases.
You know that Matty Hall/Finley is just about as weird and Dion
Liberal Iffy’s Liberal Party is a socialist party.
Socialism: the religion of the stomach*.
More: Iffy eats the crow-apple of discord.
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“Ignatieff lends pre-Thanksgiving hand at food bank
Liberal leader dismisses party discord”
urlm.in/deed
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*GUSTAVE LE BON and the Crowd
I believe. …. Socialism is in fact nothing but the religion of the Stomach.” …
http://www.fulltable.com/crowd/07.htm
maz2 says:
October 9, 2009 at 4:26 pm
*GUSTAVE LE BON and the Crowd
I believe. …. Socialism is in fact nothing but the religion of the Stomach.” …
http://www.fulltable.com/crowd/07.htm
Wow, maz2, great read!!
Thanks for the link Joanne! I don’t think there is any saving Ignegative now, the dye has been cast, not by the Conservative ads, but by Iffy himself.
He could have congratulated the PM’s performance, but chose to ridicule him instead, and succeeded in making himself look petty, and it’s all caught on tape.
My pleasure, Hunter! Yes Iffy is an albatross around the neck of the Liberal party. His weighs heavier on them than Stephane Dion.
Their dilemma is trying to figure out how to dump him.
“Ig” & O: The Harvard Curse.
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*The wild tumble of Michael Ignatieff
“Ignatieff could win the Nobel Peace Prize for doing nothing, as Barack Obama just has, and his numbers would still keep falling.”*
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“The Twelve Days of the Peace Prize
On the first day of the Peace Prize
The Committee sent to me
A Nobel without the prefix “Ig”
On the second day of the Peace Prize
The Committee sent to me
Two ignored wars
And a Nobel without the prefix “Ig”
On the third day of the Peace Prize
The Committee sent to me
Three tax evaders
Two ignored wars
And a Nobel without the prefix “Ig”” [...]
“On the twelfth day of the Peace Prize
The Committee sent to me
Twelve per cent unemployment
Eleven more banks failing
Ten Acorns falling
Nine Reids ascowling
Eight Pelosis strutting
Seven Rangels scamming
Six Derrion Alberts
Five abandoned Poles
Four martyred Nedas
Three tax evaders and
Two ignored wars
And a Nobel without the prefix “Ig””
H/T # 179 Brooks:
http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/10/09/exit-stage-left-exeunt-stage-right/#comments
*http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/wild+tumble+Michael+Ignatieff/2089371/story.html
Ig-Nobel, er Ig-Noble Headlines.
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“Ignatieff appears to soften tone against Tories”*
“Liberal senators break with Ignatieff on law-and-order bill
Upper chamber grits amend legislation that the Liberal Leader had championed”
urlm.in/deco
*urlm.in/degv
“Ig” & O: The Harvard Curse. (cont’d)
“This is his sole legacy: a massive post-traumatic stress disorder.”*
>>> “Iggy Broke The Deal & Must Go
The Deal was: You The Membership Accept the Anti-Democratic Installation of Iggy As Leader And Iggy Will Lead Us Back To Power. Iggy has broken his part of the deal. He must resign.”
http://eugeneforseyliberal.blogspot.com/2009/10/iggy-broke-deal-must-go.html
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*>>> Written before the US election:
8/13/2008:
“Barack Obama – Narcissist or Merely Narcissistic?”
“The “small people”, the “rank and file”, the “loyal soldiers” of the narcissist – his flock, his nation, his employees – they pay the price. The disillusionment and disenchantment are agonizing. The process of reconstruction, of rising from the ashes, of overcoming the trauma of having been deceived, exploited and manipulated – is drawn-out. It is difficult to trust again, to have faith, to love, to be led, to collaborate. Feelings of shame and guilt engulf the erstwhile followers of the narcissist. This is his sole legacy: a massive post-traumatic stress disorder.”
http://www.globalpolitician.com/25109-barack-obama-elections