In today’s always good Toronto Sun editorial, they touch on a couple of items hot on the heels of a couple of recent blog entries of mine: one about the video flick I made starring Mike Duffy and Liberal Carolyn Bennet featuring her brilliant remarks about our nations’ kids going to jail if they don’t get the Liberal Party’s socialist daycare (and “early learning” —wink!) program; and the other about our friend Gerry Nicholls’ discovery of the “Harper Eats Babies” message. (Hat tip: conservativegal)
Harper eats babies and jails them?
First they said Stephen Harper eats babies. Now they’re saying he wants to throw them in prison.
Sheesh! Talk about harsh!
But at least the “Harper eats babies” crack was meant as a weird joke by a computer prankster, who was able to hack into GO Transit’s digital sign system and temporarily post the over-the-top smear.
But the second charge, that Harper and the Conservatives are maliciously condemning children to a life of crime by refusing to fund the Liberals’ national daycare program, was actually made Tuesday by Grit MP and would-be party leader Carolyn Bennett. And she delivers babies for a living!
Here’s what Bennett said on CTV’s Mike Duffy Live about Harper’s child care plan, shortly after the budget was tabled:
Calling the Conservative approach “spiteful,” Bennett added: “There’s actually no plan for early learning and child-care spaces. So it’s a good job they’re putting more money for prisons in the budget, because we’re going to need them if we don’t get this early childhood right.”
Got that, mom and dad? If you two incompetents are left on your own to raise your kids, they’re headed for prison!
Unbelievable! Didn’t the Liberals learn during the last election campaign that insulting parents about their ability to raise their kids is a really bad idea? Remember Scott Reid, Paul Martin’s former communications guru, who helped blow up the Grit campaign after he said parents would spend Harper’s $1,200 a year taxable child care benefit on “beer and popcorn”?
Well, welcome to “beer and popcorn” writ large.
As Human Resources Minister Diane Finley said in the Commons yesterday after Bennett, unwisely, went after the Tory child care plan again: “She insulted every single Canadian who chooses to raise families at home. She insulted every single one of us who was raised at home by implying that parents who want to raise their children at home will be bringing up future criminals. That is what she said.”
Uh, yeah … pretty much. And Bennett’s not the only one.
Yesterday, former Liberal justice minister Irwin Cotler accused Harper of fighting an imaginary crime wave by building more prison cells at the expense of the Liberal child care plan. Whew! And the Grits think this kind of hysterical rhetoric is going to get them re-elected? Dream on, boys and girls.
The Toronto Star even ventured into the truth about liberals and admitted in an article:
[…] Bennett had told an interviewer: “There’s actually no plan for early learning and child-care spaces. So it’s a good job they’re putting more money for prisons in the budget because we’re going to need them if we don’t get this early childhood right.” Moments later she clarified she meant “early learning.”
[…but we didn’t see the wink! —Joel]
Yesterday, Finley pounced on Bennett’s statement during question period. “She insulted every single one of us who was raised at home by implying that parents who want to raise their children at home will be bringing up future criminals.” […]
Meanwhile, the Institute for Canadian Values has an excellent follow-up to a hideous “report” put out by the far left-wing socialist Caledon Institute.
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