Needed to make room for the professionals
Liberals need a litter box
By LORRIE GOLDSTEIN
We recently got a new cat from the Humane Society, whom we've named Shady Lady, because of her distinctive dark grey colouring.
Whenever the mood strikes her, Shady Lady races through our house, leaping over low-lying furniture and the dog, knocking down vases and sending dishes and glassware crashing to the floor.
Then she runs away, sits down and adopts a pose of total innocence, as if to say, as we come racing into the room to assess the latest damage: "Hey, it wasn't me that did that. It must have been some other cat."
The Liberal Party of Canada reminds me of our cat.
Having let the cat out of the bag on re-opening the Constitution to recognize Quebec as a nation because, how shall I say this ... oh, yeah, ... because Michael Ignatieff is a total idiot and a shameless political opportunist ... the Liberals now claim innocence regarding the mess they've made. Hey, it must have been some other cat.
This week, the Liberals announced they will not debate their Ignatieff-inspired lunacy to "officialize" Quebec's status within Canada as a nation -- otherwise known as "let's play Russian Roulette with national unity, if it might win our goofball candidate who's been out of the country for the past 30 years a few more votes on the second ballot."
Prior to that, Gerard Kennedy, with almost no delegate support in Quebec, piously announced he disagreed with the "Quebec nation" motion proposed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and passed by the House of Commons this week. Never mind that all but 15 Liberal MPs supported it and that Harper's motion -- as bad as it is -- at least doesn't talk about re-opening the Constitution, as Ignatieff and the Quebec wing of the Liberal party wanted to do.
Kennedy explained he had been silent on Ignatieff's far more incendiary musings that started this whole mess because he didn't think a leadership race was the place to do it. So that, apparently, is why he attacked Harper while ignoring Ignatieff.
See? It was that other cat that caused this whole mess.
By the way, who asked these clowns to start playing demolition derby with our nation in the middle of their stupid leadership race?
Not ordinary Quebecers. Not Albertans. Last time I looked, Ontarians weren't screaming for a sequel to Meech Lake. Ditto Newfoundlanders.
You want to do something useful, Liberals? Figure out a way to fix the health care system you helped to totally @%$!@ up during your 13 years in power. Ever heard of wait times?
But it's not just Liberals like Ignatieff and Kennedy.
It's Liberals everywhere. Monday morning I'm drinking my tea, reading the Globe, and what do I see in their Comment section?
A column by former Paul Martin (who?) "adviser" John Duffy, advising us that global warming is the next big issue and that the Liberals are the party to fix it. Uh, excuse us? The Liberals? The same guys who signed on to Kyoto in 1997 and then ignored it to the point where the Americans, who refused to sign, did a better job of controlling the growth rate of greenhouse gas emissions than we did?
Those Liberals are the best party to deal with climate change?
And we're getting this from John Duffy? The same guy who defended fellow Martin adviser Scott Reid's vote-destroying quip during the last election that parents would just blow Harper's child care money on "beer and popcorn?" That John Duffy?
Gee, the only thing funnier than that would be a column by Reid, the Liberal master of disaster himself, advising us that this weekend's Liberal leadership convention could closely resemble the 1992 Ontario Liberal convention that elected Lyn McLeod. (Really? Who cares?)
Of course, that was Reid's column yesterday in the Star.
Police Chief Bill Blair, be advised. I see any of these clowns anywhere near my neighbourhood, I'm throwin' our cat at them.
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