OK that’s not an official expression, but work with me here. I demand a major state-sponsored award of some kind or even just a note from a liberal politician, on the basis that I’m amazingly prescient. I am, dammit. I deserve it, and therefore I must be awarded. I feel excluded. There. That oughta do it.
This vanity of mine comes to light again today because there’s all this talk today and yesterday about the novel idea of a lawsuit against the Liberal Party to recover cash stolen from us through the Liberal Party’s sponsorship adscam corruption scandal.
But on March 3 2005—that’s 2005, which would be over a year ago, I suggested a lawsuit against the Liberal Party of Canada to recover money they stole.
I wrote, in part:
Suggestions for Irwin Cotler, Liberal Minister of Gay Marriage and Minority Justice: Start with a $250 million lawsuit against the Liberal Party of Canada. Oh but by the way, Cotler, I’d like to vet the lawyers you hire to bring your lawsuit against the Liberal Party, just to ensure they’re good conservatives. No use going round in circles here.
Or perhaps a taxpayer-led $250 million class-action lawsuit against the Liberal Party of Canada, where taxpayers would simply get their hard-earned cash back.
These are just suggestions.
Then two and a half weeks later I pretended (half-heartedly—deep inside me I really believed it) that Mr. Harper, then of the opposition Conservative Party, took that idea of mine and ran with it. I wrote on March 21, 2005:
Today here’s what it was reported that Stephen Harper said:
The federal government should sue the Liberal Party of Canada to recover “dirty money” received indirectly through the sponsorship program, Conservative Leader Stephen Harper said Monday.
“The government is suing (communications) agencies to recover money indirectly received but it is not suing the Liberal Party to recover dirty money,” he said in the House of Commons. “Why won’t the government sue the Liberal Party of Canada?” he asked during question period.
The two other opposition leaders also accused Paul Martin of favouring Liberal Party interests over those of taxpayers.
“As prime minister, he should demand the Liberal Party reimburse the money,” said Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe. […]
Who needs a policy convention? Just read my blog. Thank you.
And so you see I’m worthy of a Juno award or a Canadian Liberal-Leftist Media Award of Great Honor and Freaking Tons o’ Distinction —or one of those awards those liberals constantly hand out to each other.
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