I’m not sure if Jim Coyle was trying curry favour for Dalton McGuinty in today’s column, McGuinty is still The Unknown Premier, but this anecdote does nothing to improve my opinion of the Liberal leader:
Once, a few years ago, there was a mix-up in the McGuinty household timetable. No one got home to free the family dog from his sleeping crate. An unholy mess was made.
Rather than summoning the help, as many in his station might have, the premier cleaned it up himself.
This could well be a metaphor for Premier McPoo’s strange priorities over the last few years, as he has had to scurry around tidying up after various ‘accidents’ in his administration (think ehealth, lottogate, ecotax, sex-ed, Supercorp, *solar-price waffling, LHIN mismanagement, and so many others.)
Perhaps it’s time for Ontario to elect a Premier who has the foresight to prevent those missteps, rather than having to constantly apologize and admit that he and buddies messed up.
[*must-read link]
Voters are responsible for returning him to serve seven years. Voters must have an option to remove the policies of the Liberals.
A meltdown took place when John Tory declared his intent to extend a similar tax treatment similar to the deal of Catholics in Ontario.
It was incredible how the MSM joined in and played the religion card against John Tory who wanted to level the playing field.
Why did the MSM not ask if leveling the tax treatment was a equitable solution to the NDP or Liberals?
The progressives went after John Tory and many Conservatives did not like the increased tax bill this tax treatment would impose.
I believe this was first raised by Bill Davis and than Mike Harris. (John Tory was involved in the back office during the Harris government?)
It would be easier to clean a poopy dog crate than the mess McPoopy has made of this province.
Who the Hell is telling this story, his mother, his wife or his children?
Frankly I don’t care how much doggy doo he cleans up, it’s not going to endear him to anyone struggling to pay taxes he’s imposed on us, neither is the pittance he’s sending out in three installments.
An expert dog poo cleaner does not necessarily make a good Premier.
The Conservatives are trying to fund raise but McPoo has us all taxed beyond reason making it very difficult to donate. Is this all part of his grand scheme?
Thankfully voting is free so there’s no excuse to complain about the results if McPoo gets another chance to pile on more taxes, make more rules and finish off the province for decades.
Here is an article by MPP Jim Wilson that goes more to the original intent of Jim Coyle’s column – namely that McGuinty is the Premier in the bubble; not letting average Ontarians near him:
What Coyne’s column says to me is that Hudak has been successful so far in defining Dalton McGuinty because he (McGuinty) hasn’t done so himself. Not well enough according to polling numbers.
I see this column as being a good balance of both Hudak and McGuinty and accurate.
The line that you chose to highlight works in context with the rest of Coyne’s column – Making fun of someone’s name like that isn’t smart – it actually demeans the message you’re conveying in your post which is blurred.
One could argue that in putting that line in there that rhetorically whoever is the next Premier of Ontario will have McGuinty’s poop to clean up – lots of it.
I believe Coyne used that line to try to make McGuinty appear like any other pet-owner who has to clean up after pets. That an everyday Ontarian would consider calling for assistance.
The column works to Hudak’s advantage, but it also in the end works for McGuinty.
If balance is what you crave then I think Coyne offers it here.
I think that Dalton McGuinty just doesn’t understand the average Ontario family. He lives in a bubble that is protected by an OPP security detail that guards him from average people 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. He lives in the tony Toronto neighborhood of Rosedale, in a home owned by the Liberal Party and funded by taxpayers
I think you need to be a little careful here. I can think of another guy who lives in a bubble protected by a security detail that guards him 24/7, and who lives in a tony part of town in a home he doesn’t own that is funded by the taxpayers.
Some of this stuff just goes with the job. There are plenty of other things both these guys can get criticized for.
Some of this stuff just goes with the job
Jad @ 11:09 am – Yes that is a good point.
Da Green Librano$ eco-Mafia & Ontario’s Corleone McGuinty.
“windmills now dot the horizon in Mafia strongholds like Corleone, the town better known as the setting for the Godfather films.”
First commenter, Baa Humbug, at JoNova** said:
“(Probably not. Too much money and resources already sunk into this scam.)”
Da Proof is da proof*:
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“McGuinty Signs $ 7 Billion Green Energy Deal
Samsung-led Consortium Given Preferential Treatment’
“Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty signed a green energy deal with a group led by Samsung. The group will get access to the electric grid, and fund wind and solar projects.”
http://www.suite101.com/content/mcguinty-signs-7-billion-green-energy-deal-a193146
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“Mafia cash in on lucrative EU wind farm handouts – especially in Sicily
An ill wind is blowing over Italy’s green revolution, as the Mafia seek to capitalise on generous grants for renewable energy.”
“They rise up high above the sun-scorched countryside, looking out over hilltop villages, palm trees, neatly-tended vineyards and olive groves.
But for all their promises of a clean, green future, Italy’s windfarms have now acquired a somewhat dirtier whiff – as the latest industry to be infiltrated by the country’s mobsters.
Attracted by the prospect of generous grants designed to boost the use of alternative energies, the so-called “eco Mafia” has begun fraudulently creaming off millions of euros from both the Italian government and the European Union.
And nowhere has the industry’s reputation become more tarnished than Sicily, where windmills now dot the horizon in Mafia strongholds like Corleone, the town better known as the setting for the Godfather films.
“Nothing earns more than a wind farm,” said Edoardo Zanchini, an environmental campaigner who has investigated Mafia infiltration of the industry. “Anything that creates wealth interests the Mafia.”
It is not just Italian criminals, however, who have spotted the potential for corruption. Recent research by Kroll, the international corporate security firm, has discovered examples all over Europe of so-called “clean energy” schemes being used to to line criminals’ pockets rather than save the planet. Some involve windmills that stand derelict or are simply never built, while others are used to launder profits from other crime enterprises.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/renewableenergy/7981737/Mafia-cash-in-on-lucrative-EU-wind-farm-handouts-especially-in-Sicily.html
(*H/T Librano$ Liberal Ad$Cam Chretien)
JoNova**:
http://joannenova.com.au/2010/09/pachauri-admits-the-ipcc-just-guesses-the-numbers/comment-page-1/#comment-83344
jad, the other guy, however, is out and about all the time, it’s just that the MSM doesn’t bother to cover his activities, UNLIKE McGuilty who’s NEVER out and about and rarely, if ever, answers e-mails.
Every time I send an e-mail to the other guy, I get a reply.
It’s about accountability.
McGuilty’s AWOL whenever you need him, and has run up Ontario’s debt and encouraged irresponsibility in Ontario citizens (sic, what’s being a citizen, anymore?).He’s run this once-prosperous, once-proud province into the ground and promoted lawlessness and squalor — hey, he gets to go home to his pile in Rosedale while the poor citizens of Caledonia get to deal with thugs and ne’er do wells who’ve hijacked respectability and the justice system and lowered their homes’ real estate value with impunity.
The other guy, OTOH, is fiscally responsible (remember, however, that he’s running a minority government, so spending is de rigeur while holding his nose) and has steered Canada through a brutal recession which has been far less damaging in Canada than in most other countries because of his governing acumen.
Sorry, jad, there just ain’t no comparison: One guy is a total nincomPOOP while the other guy is ably captaining his ship of state through rough waters and dangerous shoals without wrecking the boat or drowning his sailors.
Jeeze, we can’t even relieve our frustration with a bit of humour?
I happen to think the mess McGuinty has made of this province stinks and calling him McPoo is more than appropriate, given he and/or his family were trying to portray him as ever so humble he even scoops and cleans doggy doo.
We aren’t the ones who told of the McGuinty dog neglect, it’s a bit of information no one needed to know about, but he just had to get it out that he can clean the crap. Now if he can just get to work and clean the crappy mess he made of this province with two majority governments.
jad – your comments resonate with me because I too see definite similarities between the two leaders you elude to. I’ve believed for a long while that McGuinty’s riding Harper’s coat-tails and THAT has deflected much attention and criticism away from his(McGuinty’s) sinking of the great ship Ontario. So far it’s worked.
However when Hudak and Horwath start ramping up their games I expect that the truth of just how McGuinty’s plunged Ontario into a nice mess will only too clear.
I also suspect that if Ignatieff’s Liberals force an election before Ontario’s provincial one next year that Ignatieff will feel the blowback from McGuinty via voters big time…if only by them both being Liberals. I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if those within the Liberal party looking to take over Iffy’s job to push Iggy to force an election before the provincial Ontario one to throw Iggy to Ontario wolves.
Liz J. – call him names to your hearts content but it still isn’t necessary if you’re communicating and/or spinning one line of a very good column. If it’s a shot at being funny then count me as one blog commenter who thinks it’s added to ramp up more of the same type of bashing that’s criticized when others do it to us.
“McGuinty’s dog neglect” – Now you’re stretching it. Coyne’s column drew no such conclusion.
Rest assured that it will not be McGuinty cleaning up his own mess. Actually, if internal polling continues to show that he’s going down, count on Dalton to ingrain his “mess” even further than it is now.
Liz J. – call him names to your hearts content but it still isn’t necessary if you’re communicating and/or spinning one line of a very good column. If it’s a shot at being funny then count me as one blog commenter who thinks it’s added to ramp up more of the same type of bashing that’s criticized when others do it to us.
Well the purpose of this blog isn’t necessarily to be setting the gold standard for objective journalism.
I use it as a rant outlet and I suspect many others do here too.
(Of course if Suns media wants to hire me, I could change …)
We also know the Liberals have criticized our PM for being behind fences, not out among the people, implying that Iggy was able to get out among “the Canadians” and PM Harper just didn’t
They know very well any PM is guarded everywhere he goes, it’s true for all Leaders, a fact of life in the world we live in today.
I wonder when he cleaned up the ‘poo’ if he gagged as badly as the middle class voters in Ontario are gagging with his TAX and destroy mentality?
A rather disturbing metaphor but one that may make him think about what he has done to a once proud and stand alone province.
Having said that, the voters of Ontario have been suckered by this man and his government. If they choose to wear the hats of apathy and resignation, they deserve what they get,
Dalton and his merry team of dimwits.
I too agree that protecting and providing accommodation for this PM is not a fair comparison to a provincial Premier. In this case, Dalton.
It is a very well know fact that the current PM is as thrifty as it gets and his position is at the top of the pecking order, period.
The leader of a ‘have not’ (HE put Ontario there) Province should be leading by EXAMPLE.
Just think Charest as another silver spoon example!
Well Richo, forgive me me for being more than a little fed up and blowing off steam.
If I get out of hand I’m sure Joanne will deal with it!
Calling it dog neglect has nothing to do with Coyne’s column,just what I call it, but anyone leaving a dog caged up for hours deserves to clean up. Whatever the reason it’s all the same problem for the poor dog.
Hey, objective journalism, now that’s a novel idea, if only we could have a little of that in the MSM we’d have less reason to blow off steam. I’ll bet we’d have a Conservative Majority sitting in the HOC right now.
If I get out of hand I’m sure Joanne will deal with it!
I will indeed.
” Whatever the reason it’s all the same problem for the poor dog.”
Indeed, Liz J!!
A poor dog caged or an entire Province of tax payers caged, the parallel is spooky!
Sorry, jad, there just ain’t no comparison: One guy is a total nincomPOOP while the other guy is ably captaining his ship of state through rough waters and dangerous shoals without wrecking the boat or drowning his sailors
BatB, that’s exactly my point, there is no comparison in how they handle their office and what they have achieved. That’s why we should not be focussing on trivia like security details, which as someone else pointed out is a fact of life for leaders today. When we try to score cheap points like Mr.Coyle does here, it weakens his whole argument. Much better to stick to the important facts like what has the guy done.
OT, but wonder how Poo Man’s genius on the E-Health file, (not the one who was forced to resign), is doing? Any new polls out? Rossi catching up with WK in his camp?
Corleone Liberal McGuinty.
“*Corleone, the town better known as the setting for the Godfather films.””
Our Enemy, The State.
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“OLG eyes online gambling
The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. is planning to launch online gaming sites to capture some of the $400-million Ontarians spend annually on off-shore Internet gaming.
The OLG, which runs Ontario’s lotteries and casinos, wants legitimize online gambling in Ontario by 2012.
Ontarians do have access to online gambling websites, which are not regulated or licensed to operate in Ontario.”
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Lotteries/LotteryNews/2010/09/06/15259951.html
(*see above)
Liz, Joanne – hey venting is one thing but just as long as it’s clear, and you’ve indicated so that your choice of monikers has nothing to do with Coyne’s column. Thanks for the clarification.
Richco @ 7:29 am – I feel so relieved that we have met your standards of approval.
as I am that you still recognize free speech when you see it but just can’t help yourself taking parting shot.
Makes Sandy’s line in her latest post “is speech only free when the listener happens to agree with what you are saying?” and your agreement to it ring true, no?
Richco, we’ve had this conversation before. It is about respect for other points of view – not just your own. I’m getting really tired of this.
Rich, I think the point is why should we have to ask YOUR forgiveness re our opinions on any subject? I don’t worry if someone disagrees with my point of view, I can handle that.
We are Conservatives sharing things that concern us, the good and the bad that’s out there in media land which is not exactly a friendly place for Conservatism.
So, let’s not beat each other up over petty stuff eh.
The above comment is for “Richo”, not Rich.