…Leftists in a big old tizzy; their minds “boggled”—even more than usual.
(Hat tip to conservativegal)
Maybe some folks actually want a better Canada rather than a cheap political circus.
The democracy-deficient you’ve got to be kidding party of Mr. Democracy, Jack Layton (a party owned and run by huge multi-million-dollar labor unions and numerous special interests), lost a good Member of Parliament last year when one of his MPs, Bev Desjarlais, was basically tossed from his ranks after she refused to vote the way Mr. Democracy, Jack Layton, demanded she vote. And that was on a question of conscience.
No matter. When the other extreme social liberal-leftists in the house were voting to change the definition of marriage and in essence the definition of Canada and Canadian Family, and attempting to shift Canada to the social far-left outfield last year, Desjarlais would have none of it.
She sat as an independent rather than cave to the democracy-deficient bullying of team Liberal-Left. Good on her.
NDP shocked to find ex-MP in Tory post
Former New Democrat clashed with party, lost bid to sit as Independent in JanuaryOTTAWA — Some New Democrat MPs say they are shocked by the “mind-boggling” move of their former colleague Bev Desjarlais, who is now working for a Conservative cabinet minister.
Party-switching on Parliament Hill is fast becoming old hand, but Ms. Desjarlais’s trek from New Democrat MP to an Independent and now to aide to Greg Thompson, the Tory Veterans Affairs Minister, is surely a political first.
Ms. Desjarlais, who represented the northern Manitoba riding of Churchill until she was defeated as an Independent in the Jan. 23 election, is now in charge of parliamentary relations for the New Brunswick minister.
According to Ms. Desjarlais, the job offer was unexpected. She said that after her defeat at the polls, she was packing up her things in her Parliament Hill office and decided to give a congratulatory call to Mr. Thompson, who had an office in the same hallway.
“Much to my surprise, he offered me a position with his department,” she said.
“Probably the only time in my life that I’ve been totally speechless is when he offered me the position. He said he wanted someone who knew how to work with MPs, and how Parliament works, and who cares about people; and I have to admit, I was very humbled.”
Ms. Desjarlais, 50, is perhaps best known as the MP who was stripped of her critic responsibilities by NDP Leader Jack Layton for voting against same-sex marriage.
[…] “It was a shock to me and people in our party everywhere. . . . It’s hard to understand how Bev could have gone from being an active New Democrat to actually supporting and upholding the Stephen Harper agenda. [It] is just mind-boggling and very disappointing,” said Ms. [Judy] Wasylycia-Leis, the [NDP] member for Winnipeg North.
“Mind boggling”. Huh. Choosing democracy. Choosing right over wrong. Wow. Mind boggling. I guess the leftists’ minds are easily boggled. Film at eleven.
Meanwhile, Mr. Democracy is still wriggling in his tight panties over the newfound need for democracy in deciding, after the fact, whether or not to support our troops, some of whom are now manifestly dead, and their mission and our nation’s mission and our national responsibilities in terrorist-ridden Afghanistan.
But as columnist Paul Stanway remembers it:
[…] It was a non-story last November when the House of Commons debated this expanded role, by then fully public. Just a handful of MPs showed up. NDP Leader Jack Layton wasn’t there, but now apparently he believes a new debate is fundamental to Canadian democracy.
“We’re a democracy, after all, and we’re trying to establish a functioning democracy in Afghanistan as the stated purpose of the mission,” Layton blathered this week. “It seems ironic that we wouldn’t want to have a discussion here about such a mission.”
We had it, Jack. Where were you? In Paul Martin’s back pocket is where. Back then it didn’t suit Layton’s agenda to highlight Liberal plans to deepen Canada’s involvement in Afghanistan. Not when he was propping up the Martin government. […]
Read the rest of Stanway’s “Calls for mission debate hypocritical” column at the Edmonton Sun. It’s always a good idea to try to keep up with the hypocritical and deceitful and treacherous ways of the liberal-left and their media.
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