Let’s see if I have this straight. The U.S. government is trying to borrow $700 billion from China, Saudi Arabia and other saintly benefactors to buy up bad Wall Street debt, a goodly sum of which will go to reward Wall Street CEOs for their visionary and prudent fiscal management. Sooner rather than later, they’ll be able to worm their way out of hock by speculating on carbon. I guess that’s the logical evolution of the bubble concept, one literally made of air. The possibility a carbon market coming onstream at the same time as a privatization of Social Security — with Sarah Palin waiting in the wings of the presidency behind a 72-year old, four-time cancer survivor — is very, very real. Plus we’ve got a three-month orgy of “Get it while you can!” from El Presidente before he returns to the military/petroleum/narcotics complex from whence he came. These sounds like long odds for even God to take care of, don’t they?
Canada, tell me you’re smarter than to re-elect a Prime Minister who’s in cahoots with these people. Call me a northeast progressive snob (or worse), but in light of this, ahem, empirical evidence voting for Harper is a reflection of either a moral or genetic failure.
blogoffanddie said,
September 28, 2008 at 3:53 pm
From Peacekeepers to Ass-Kissers – thanks, Stephen Harper
Stephen Harper does not deserve to be Canada’s Prime Minister.
“Whether Canada ends up as one national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion…” Stephen Harper speech to the Colin Brown Memorial Dinner, National Citizens Coalition, 1994
“I don’t know all the facts on Iraq, but I think we should work closely with the Americans.” – Stephen Harper, Report Newsmagazine, March 25 2002
Stephen Harper has his head so far up George Bush’s back passage that George could get a gig as the two-headed freak at a traveling sideshow.
These days, to get elected, you need only to appeal to America’s or, in our case, Canada’s largest voting block, stupid people.
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…the Conservative Party is a lot like a box of chocolates, you’re never sure where the nuts are, sadly, the Liberal Party has no nuts…