Prime Minister Stephen Harper continues to prove that unlike past Canadian governments of any party, he is manifestly interested in winning power for Canadians. This is in contradistinction to the Liberal Party under all its modern-day leaders, which was and remains all about winning Liberal Party power over Canadians and then having their way with them sexually, matrimonially, financially, and in other ways, mainly socialistically.
Harper wants Canada to win. Thus, he will win. Canada is already winning after only a few weeks of Harper Conservative government, and his poll numbers are up since the election, and Harper is clearly a winner—for Canada. Yes, for the Conservative Party too. One follows the other in conservativeland.
Liberals are taking notes. And yet they (and their media) still think they own the right to rule over us as “Canada’s natural governing party”. I’d have thought that if they were so “natural” and this all comes so “naturally” to them, they’d naturally know how to win the hearts and minds of Canadians and wouldn’t have lost the last election. And they’d naturally know how to make Canada win. But they proved they didn’t.
If I didn’t know better, and I’m not sure I do, I’d suggest that maybe, just maybe, the Liberals actually didn’t want to end the softwood lumber dispute with the Americans, because they saw it as an entré to their anti-Americanism and the appeal that has to the stupid set in Canada, who so enjoy smugly bashing Americans and particularly George Bush, like a team of talking Michael Moore action-figure dolls.
The only thing natural about liberals is that they are in fact natural born losers, not winners, and need to put down America in order to help drag themselves up and win elections. Canada loses in the process. But naturally they don’t worry about Canada losing as long as they win.
I liked this editorial today in the Winnipeg Sun (Sun Media)
[…] Politically, this is a coup similar to Harper’s astonishing visit to shake hands with our men and women in uniform on the front lines in Afghanistan.
Perhaps that’s why interim Liberal leader Bill Graham and New Democrat leader Jack Layton feign such outrage.
Graham’s arm-waving stance is a charade. For the best part of the 13-year Jean Chretien/Paul Martin era, the Liberals tried to negotiate a solution with Washington and failed.
Layton charges Harper has settled for 80 cents on the dollar. Perhaps the NDP leader would rather have 100% of nothing than 80% of $5 billion. If so, he better try explaining that to the working men and women who depend on the softwood lumber industry for their livelihoods.
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The picture in my mind of Layton and Graham and all liberal-leftists angrily pointing fingers and waving their fists in the air over Canada winning is alone enough to discount them as legitimate leaders of legitimate parties. Perhaps the liberal-left should put their angrily flailing arms down and fold their hands in front of themselves and calmly attempt an explanation as to why they didn’t want to this dispute to end. And then repent. But they won’t.
The Winnipeg Sun piece ends like this:
[…] The Liberals insulted Bush at every touch and turn. The Conservatives know this is not the way to get results from the Americans. Winning is what it is all about.
Harper has done more in his almost three months in power than Martin did in almost two years. This lumber deal is what leadership looks like.
And the liberal-left knows it. That’s what’s so scary.
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