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More advice for Michael Ignatieff on his ‘Sink or Swim’ Tour

Posted by Joanne on 2 July 2010, 7:50 am

Shorter Tom Kent:  Shut up and listen!

Of course Mr. Ziffy did that not too long ago.  Oh, but the roles were reversed. Right.

Pssst.  Here’s a little tip for my Liberal friends :  Next time try electing your leader.

Appointments are better served when it comes to Governors General and Senators – and even then we balk at the process.

As Monte Solberg so wisely quipped, “The [next] election may well end up being about whether Iggy has the royal jelly to be the prime minister or if he is just toast with no jam.”

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Related

The WFP tells us that the Queen is going to meet with His Iggyness this morning and then will take a ‘breather’. Yeah, she’ll need it. All that hot air can take its toll.

Some dry humour here from Scott Stinson – When Michael met Nick. [Warning: The photo is very scary.]


Michael Ignatieff appreciates Canadians that don’t vote:

“I’m getting a lot of Conservatives saying, ‘These guys aren’t conservative enough,’ ” he said. “Now, whether or not they’re going to vote for me? I don’t know. They just may not vote, which obviously also helps me.”

Filed under Harper best PM ever, Iffy, Iggo Waffles, Iggy, Iggyssiah, LPC, Liberal Party of Donolo, Liberal Party of Toronto, Liberal arrogance, Liberal entitlement, Liberal machine, Michael Ignatieff, The LPC is dysfunctional, democracy, grassroots power.
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Grits unite behind ‘politically brain-dead’ Iffy

Posted by Joanne on 21 June 2010, 8:02 am

The Liberal Party is finally united behind Michael Ignatieff – as the lesser of any other evil (Hill Times):

...According to one insider, however, the current Grit solidarity is more about lack of better options, and a bad reaction among the rank-and-file to the possibility of uniting the left. The source noted there is little room for growth in the Atlantic region, Quebec and the West are dead zones for the Liberal Party, and there is no indication they could get the number of seats they need in Ontario to form a minority government.

“Merger should be expunged from people’s vocabulary, and coalition maybe if the ducks lined up after an election it would be something to look at. But that’s all, that’s as far as anyone was willing to go with it. There’s no lining up behind Ignatieff as a show of support, it’s that the alternatives are just not palatable,” said the source...

(H/T Sammy)

Now that’s what I call confidence in your leader!

Please spare us from a ‘politically brain-dead’ Prime Minister.

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Update

The Liberals will never be the same – Andrew Coyne (H/T Sammy):

…Consider first the implications of a simple coalition—a coalition struck not in the chaotic aftermath of an indecisive election, but anticipated well in advance. For left-leaning voters tempted to stray into the NDP camp, there is no longer any reason to stick with the Liberals, as they have been traditionally admonished, just to keep the Conservatives out: the coalition can see to that now. Indeed, as Chantal Hébert has pointed out, all the more reason to vote NDP, to strengthen its hand in coalition talks. Meanwhile, right-leaning voters will consider the spectacle of a cabinet filled with the likes of Libby Davies and Pat Martin, and recoil…

NDP rallies the troops for a fall election – Jane Taber

Mr. Iffy tells Liberals to ‘shut up’: Ignatieff Tells Members, If You’re Going To Speak Out, Shut Up! – Scott Ross (via Warren Kinsella)

Liberals support HST in B.C. Unless someone objects – Kelly McParland, Full Comment

And now for real leadership – Bloomberg Interview with PM Stephen Harper (H/T Jad)

Filed under CPC majority solution, Coalition of the swilling, Election fever, Harper best PM ever, Iffy, Iggo Waffles, Iggy, Iggyssiah, LPC, Liberal Party of Donolo, Liberal Party of Toronto, Michael Ignatieff, The LPC is dysfunctional.
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Pro-life Liberals must take up the cause

Posted by Joanne on 20 May 2010, 7:47 pm

Dear Pro-Life Liberal MPs :  It’s now all up to you.

And how ironic would that be if the social conservative support moved to the Liberals?

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Friday Update

Joyce Arthur’s Peculiar View on Human Rights – Patrick Ross

Harper Steers Clear Of Troubled Abortion Waters – Adrian MacNair

Charest’s deplorable abortion stunt – National Post Editorial:

...Mr. Charest is also wrong when he says that the debate is settled in Quebec. In an Angus Reid poll conducted in January, 31% of Quebec respondents thought abortion should remain legal but subject to greater restrictions than currently exist; 17% thought abortion should only be permitted in the case of rape or incest, or to save a woman’s life; while 3% thought abortion should be outlawed completely.

Harper to oppose any attempt to create new abortion law- CTV

However, Liberal MP Paul Szabo believes in baby steps:

“Is (a vote) inevitable? I would say yes,” says Mississauga South’s Paul Szabo, among a handful of anti-abortion Liberal MPs in a sea of Conservatives. A veteran member of the secretive Parliamentary Pro-Life Caucus, Szabo joined a crowd estimated at up to 15,000 campaigners at Thursday’s “March of Life” on Parliament Hill.

“We will be back to reconsidering the question in the House . . . We’re taking incremental steps, small steps. It’s just a question of knowing when it’s the right time.”

Oh is that a hidden agenda?

Just kidding!!!  I hate that you’re a Liberal Paul, but I admire your tenacity.

Filed under Abortion, Adoption is an option, LPC, fetal rights.
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Weak media, weak Ziffy

Posted by Joanne on 19 May 2010, 7:30 am

So we have a sitting Canadian MP charged with refusing to obey a police officer following a car accident last month.  Great role model.

Apparently Michael Ignatieff doesn’t think that this is a big enough issue to have Pablo Rodriguez step down from his critic’s role as Liberal critic for Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, until the matter is resolved.

Perhaps the reason is that there was apparently only ‘damage to property’, rather than any personal injuries.  Would that be the tipping point Mr. Ziffy?

This morning the National Post asks why Pablo Rodriguez has been given such a soft ride by Canadian media compared to Rahimelena.  Tasha Kheiriddin posed similar questions yesterday, as have several Blogging Tories.

Yes, there has been spotty coverage by MSM but nothing even approaching the spectacle of slimy vultures mercilessly pursuing  Rahim Jaffer and Helena Guergis day after day. Weren’t we all told then that MPs have to be held to a higher standard? Especially cabinet ministers?

If the Liberals were in power right now and Rodriguez were a Minister, would Mr. Ziffy ask him to step down until the case had been resolved?  What kind of leadership we could expect from Michael Ignatieff?

And would the Canadian media continue to be an accessory to the crime of double standards?

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Thursday Update

The pressure is on Ignatieff to stop Liberal freefall – John Ivision, Post

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Monday Update

Ignatieff prepared to form a coalition? – Norman Spector (May 17)

Liberals ‘in chaos from a leadership point of view’ – Hill Times

Filed under Accountability, Coalition of the swilling, Iffy, Iggo Waffles, Iggy, Iggyssiah, LPC, Liberal Party of Donolo, Liberal arrogance, Liberal entitlement, Liberal machine, MSM bias, Media Issues, Media Watch, Michael Ignatieff, The LPC is dysfunctional.
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The McGuinty Nightmare

Posted by Joanne on 16 May 2010, 11:52 am

I was thoroughly enjoying Angelo Persichilli’s column this morning (Michael Ignatieff’s 25 per cent problem),  until my eyes became riveted on two paragraphs that caused me to freeze with fear:

…In talking to Liberals these days, four names keep coming up as potential younger candidates: Dominic LeBlanc (42), Martin Cauchon (48), David McGuinty (50) and Justin Trudeau (36), whose activities are being followed very closely by many Liberals, garnering him both respect and jealousy.

Some say that Martha Hall Findlay will also be around again, while Siobhan Coady, a Member of Parliament from Newfoundland, is also gaining a lot of respect lately among her colleagues. Some Liberals, however, still hope to convince Frank McKenna, who is always the best candidate they will never have, or Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty, who is by far preferred to his brother David…

This caused me to fret over all kinds of different horrific scenarios, such as the words Prime Minister Dalton McGuinty and is that scarier than Prime Minister David McGuinty?

Or how about a Canada with a Prime Minister David McGuinty in Ottawa and brother Dalton still firmly in charge of Ontario? Would there immediately be an exodus of Conservative voters from Ontario? I mean, how could we stand it?

And would the remaining Ontarians be so burdened  with Nanny State red tape and oppressive taxes that they’d suffocate in their bubble-wrapped homes?

Let’s hope Michael Ignatieff continues to be leader of the Liberal Party for a long, long time.

Filed under Dalton McGuinty, Iffy, Iggo Waffles, Iggy, Iggyssiah, Just trust Dalton, LPC, Liberal Party of Donolo, Liberal Party of Toronto, Liberal arrogance, Liberal entitlement, Liberal machine, Michael Ignatieff, Nanny State, Ontario Politics, Too many pigs at the trough, Your tax-dollars.
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You snooze you lose – literally

Posted by Joanne on 19 April 2010, 3:52 pm

The Liberal Party surely is a pathetic lot.  They blame their own ineptitude on a conspiracy.

Yes it must surely be a diabolical Conservative conspiracy that the Tories book through an agent who keeps them apprised of special nocturnal flights so that they can be to work on time.

The Liberal MPs must have have been waiting for the Big Nanny State Fairy to wake them up and deliver them safely to Ottawa.

Something tells me these guys wouldn’t do too well on the Amazing Race.

Filed under Incompetence, LPC, Liberal Party of Donolo, Liberal Party of Toronto, Liberal arrogance, Liberal entitlement, Nanny State, The LPC is dysfunctional, Your tax-dollars.
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So was it a whipped vote or not?

Posted by Joanne on 24 March 2010, 3:58 pm

Nobody seems to know for sure:

“We look like fools,” one Liberal MP said privately.

(Or not so privately.)

Ah, that’s the first step though.

Acknowledge that you have a problem.

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Personal note:

Unfortunately I have a problem myself with wrist issues again so I’ll have to give it a rest for a while.

I’ll keep an eye on things here though.

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Sunday Update

Here’s an inside baseball look at the vote that will probably define Michael Ignatieff’s leadership foray before he retreats to the safety of Harvard: Liberal amateurs play the politics of emptiness – Angelo Persichilli

Filed under Iffy, Iggo Waffles, LPC, Liberal Party of Donolo, Liberal Party of Toronto, Liberal arrogance, Liberal entitlement, Liberal machine, Michael Ignatieff, Puffin Stuff, The LPC is dysfunctional, Too many Fools on the Hill.
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