Liberal leadership contender and world leader wannabe Scott Brison posing nude behind a fridge door (showing his assness) on the heels of Bare-Ass Bob Rae’s even more gratuitous display of asshattery is stupid beyond anything the Conservative government will ever do. That’s a given.
That notwithstanding, I thought it was stupid of the Conservatives to promise, during the last election, to not plug the income trust loophole. Conservatives are all for lowering taxes, but they’re also for fair taxation and (unfortunately) they’re not for eliminating corporate taxes. And not plugging that income trust loophole would open a world of corporate tax unfairness and negative possibilities that Conservatives could not allow.
Of course half the problem with embarking on a wrong-headed course of action is that at some point you may be forced to turn away from it. And now that has happened as the Conservatives appear to have chosen to break a promise, and have moved to plug that loophole—which is what they really should have promised to do in the first place.
Meanwhile, of course, trouser-challenged Liberals should keep their freaking pants on. But that’s not a story apparently.
Reading about the loophole-plugging story on the morning of November 1 gave me gas. But this latest chapter of faux liberal outrage and obfuscation —from both the Liberal politicians and their media—is totally sickening. While they also made a stupid move before the election in not closing that loophole (which, were they elected and given the same turn of corporate events, they’d as surely close now as the Conservatives did), they did so with such horrendous bumbling and alleged dishonesty and maybe even criminal intent that the RCMP and “Ethics” Commissioner were forced to look into it. Investigations continue to this day as I understand it.
Which makes me wonder: If President Bush decided NOT to stay the course on Iraq, and rather to cut and run from Iraq as many liberal Democrats in the U.S. and liberal-left in Canada demand that America now do, would Liberals applaud him for “doing the right thing”? Or would they accuse him of “breaking an election promise” and make that the central core of their media talking-points rampage?
And would they take their pants off in some sort of weird liberal protest?
This hideous scene in my daily morning update email from the National Post seems designed to mock the liberals more than the intended target (although I know that’s not true)…
Aside from looking like a rabid hyena in that mini picture, Liberal leadership contender Michael Ignatieff comes off like a fool to me and, I hope, to sensible Canadians who strive to see through the liberal-left (and their media’s) dishonest political spin on this issue. He (and all liberals in and out of the media) are trying to turn this—a broken election promise (WOW! Liberals are suddenly against that?) — into the core of the story, when the de facto story is of course the actual plugging of the loophole that obviously needed to be plugged.
The accompanying and very beneficial changes to seniors’ tax handling which will lead to huge tax savings for them is also being purposely overlooked here by the Liberals and their media who are choosing instead to lead Canadians down this obfuscatory path.
So they—liberals —are all playing pure, cheap, tawdry politics, the likes of which this country and our American cousins are rightly sick to death of. If they had even a modicum of honesty and integrity, they’d be applauding the Conservatives for not simply staying the course for purely dogmatic ideological or any other reasons, and for choosing instead the corrective measure, rather than condemning them as they are.
Of course if they had any dignity and respect, they’d keep their freaking pants on, even if they are on fire.
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