Harper’s credibility has snapped like a dry twig.
May 21, 2013
With yesterday’s insufferable speech to the Conservative caucus Stephen Harper’s credibility has snapped like a dry twig. But can anyone imagine him stepping down for the good of the party?
I watched a bit of Question Period on CPAC. John Baird seemed to have a lot of fun deflecting Opposition attacks on the clearly indefensible subject of Duffygate. Likely he was reciting the Kipling poem If to himself while smiling his way through the single talking point.
After Harper’s weak response to the senate scandal and absence from the House on a critical day, Baird may see his opening.*
How did they dump Margaret Thatcher, anyway?
It just looks as though John Baird, Justin Trudeau and Thomas Mulcair might make for an interesting race in 2015.
UPDATE, May 24, 2013
Maybe Baird isn’t the one. His hilarious slip of tongue has gone viral on You Tube, carrying with it a miasma of other clips which make the guy out to be a bully and a cad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=isxADTDdRBY
Mike Duffy
May 17, 2013
Quite a few comments in the many articles on National Newswatch today are calling for an RCMP investigation of Duffy’s corruption and the Senate and the PMO in general. But we have to remember that the RCMP is hardly a neutral observer of the Harper Government. Commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli set the tone for the relationship with Harper in a raid on the offices of Paul Martin’s Minister of Finance during the closing days of the election campaign in 2006. The raid produced nothing, but the electoral tide was turned when, fearing another sponsorship scandal, Canadian voters turned en masse away from Martin’s Liberals.
Duffy’s tactical contribution to the 2008 campaign was in picking deleted tape of an interview with Stephane Dion off the cutting room floor and showing it on CTV. The interviewer had promised Dion the out-takes would not be shown, but Duffy saw his opportunity to destroy Dion’s credibility, and he took it. A grateful Harper rewarded Duffy with a senate seat for the betrayal.
This CBC panel is too good to miss. Jennifer Ditchburn, one of the finest of the new generation of Ottawa investigative journalists, gets her chance.
http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/TV+Shows/The+National/At+Issue/ID/2385688013/
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