Apparently, according to the Liberals and other opposition, the war in Afghanistan, our economy, our North Korean-style health care system, the “man-made global warming”, and all those other nuisances are all A-OK, Jack! Good to know.
I was watching question period in the House of Commons this morning, and once again the Liberals consumed their whole question period time in a completely and weirdly obsessive interest in Maxime Bernier’s ex-girlfriend. They and their compliant media have been on this for days now. The term that kept running through my head was “reality check” (as in the Liberals need one, really badly). Oh and also the term “Jeez you’re a vacuous, trifling claque”.
So bored, I went to the Liberals’ web site to catch up on the latest “Reality Check” at their “Reality Check” web page, in case they made a reference to their own heads. (Nope). I also like to visit their site to make sure I’m not accidentally being mislead into voting Conservative by the CBC or CTV or any of the newspapers out there with their stories. Could happen! (Reality check: just kidding!)
The list of Liberal.ca “Reality Checks” used to grow every week or two. It was unreal. But it appears they’ve run out of steam. Or maybe it’s just that what the Conservatives have been saying is all in fact absolutely real. September 25 2007—nearly eight months ago—was the last time the Libs could find any fault in the Conservatives’ reality.
This seems to make sense given the example in the House today and in fact since pretty much the day the Conservatives swung into office. There’s really almost nothing for them to seriously complain about. I think I actually have more serious, intellectually honest complaints, than them.
In reality, maybe the dearth of “Reality Checks” is a result of the fact that they have had to face up to other realities—like the reality that Canada’s Natural Governing Party might just be in really big cash-related doo-doo? That might be why they launched what they’re calling their “Victory Fund”, which appears to be nothing but a web page where you can forfeit your cash to them. In reality, calling a cash donation page the “Victory Fund” betrays the sense that in their minds, cash is what will win them an election —not ideas, sound principles, and firm, lucid positions on serious issues. And if we get enough of their cash, we can bamboozle ‘em with TV ads full o’ bromides and specious platitudes and phony accusations… and Victory will be ours! Again! And they just might be right, which is why I have to shake my head daily.
Maybe they should really call it the “Crickies, We Are In Deep Doo-Doo, We’re Philosophically Bankrupt, and Fiscally in the Pooper Fund”. I know it’s a little long. I am happy to see the Liberals use the word “Victory” somewhere —they certainly won’t deploy that word with regard to Canada and our mission in Afghanistan. I guess they have their own special priorities. Victory at home… then surrender over there! But maybe if Canadians thought the Liberals were on Canada’s side, cash would flow more easily? Maybe if they were based in reality instead of mired in niggling bullcrap the likes of which they’re once again preoccupied today, they’d make sense to Canadians.
I thought this Dion photo on the “Victory Fund” graphic was fun, in that I have to put that in our Photo Gallery and get people to make up captions kind of way:
If I don’t win the election, Iggy the li’l puffin birdy might be in this graphic!
Anyway, I didn’t leave their web site thinking like a Liberal. Their performance in question period had a real deleterious effect, and their web site just reinforced that reality. The possible lesson being, don’t allow your electorate to get bored with your asinine non-issues. This is “Party Leadership 101”, for those Liberals who don’t know.
One last thought while I’m bored: This latest non-issue raises some more serious questions about the judgment and leadership of Stephane Dion, as if more were needed. I can’t believe Liberals aren’t simply embarrassed into action. The Liberals should hire some of Hillary Clinton’s laid-off campaigners. Then maybe instead of having Dion and his lieutenants going after the ex-girlfriend of an (in this case) unmarried and (in this case) innocent man, the Liberals might be warned to zip it and concentrate instead on other, actual issues—issues that at least won’t run the very real risk of boomeranging and embarrassing them. Better yet for the Liberals, maybe the Liberals would be taught to stop being, as Hillary once said regarding her pre-impeached husband Bill (whom all Liberals adore no matter what his real history), “some little woman ‘standing by my man’ like Tammy Wynette.”
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