Little bit of this, little bit of that

So much has been going on in Parliament lately and  yet I don’t even know where to begin. Disclaimer: With all of this negative CON press, why doesn’t any of it stick? Can someone answer why they are still leading in the polls when they keep proving time and time again that they are incompetent liars?

First issue: the detainee issue

It seems to me that we need more information on this before we can truly understand what happened. With that bipartisan statement said 2 things make me believe Colvin’s testimony.

1) He wouldn’t blow the whistle on this if he didn’t have proof nor would he blow the whistle on this if he were wrong.

2) The Cons must have something to hide if they refuse an inquiry and are tarnishing Colvin’s image (a very CRAP thing to do).

Second issue: NS MP who called unemployed people “lazy bastards”

Who is he to generalize that? I’m sure there are SOME unemployed people who are ‘lazy bastards’ but I am sure that most want to work and they want to work at a job that is a challenge to them and at a job where they can afford to live off of the money they make. What a generalization to make!

I cannot believe that an MP would say this, and in his own province! This is precisely why Sleazy Stevie muzzles his MPs.

Third issue: Harper and freedom of speech.

Here let me just put in this headline. It speaks volumes:

PM lauds press freedom in speech, avoids reporters

What else can one say to that? Moving on…

Fourth issue: Conservative leaflets

Political parties are given a certain amount of money to send out pamphlets to Canadians, these are called ‘ten-percenters’ and are paid for by Canadians. The MPs do not have to send them to Canadians in their riding but have the privilege to send them anywhere across the country.

The latest CON partisan leaflets were send to Liberal ridings that were predominately Jewish and called the Liberals anti-Semitics.  The Cons lied:

Montreal Liberal MP Irwin Cotler said on Power Play that the leaflets are “false on the facts.”

He said the Liberals spoke out against the anti-Semitism at the first Durban conference and noted it was the Liberals that banned funding for Hamas and Hezbollah.

“What the Conservatives have done is political identity theft,” he said. ‘This is astonishing.”

Fifth issue: The Cons in and out scam

After 3 yrs, the Cons finally had a lawyer go to court on their in and out scam. After 3 years of using avoidance tactics and a change of lawyers (I think their previous one(s) quit?), this is what their lawyer came up with:

Michel Decary told the court Tuesday that even though the radio and television ads promoted the party’s slogan for the election and Prime Minister Stephen Harper, it was legal under federal election law for local candidates to claim the expenses.

For those who do not know the story, Elections Canada says that the Cons broke election laws:

The question of whether the contested ads should have been claimed as expenses by the party or local candidates is one of several key issues in the two-year-old battle between Chief Electoral Marc Mayrand and the Tories.
An adverse ruling in Federal Court could put the party more than $1-million over its legal expense limit for the election.
Mr. Mayrand ruled in April, 2007, that 67 Conservative candidates would not get reimbursements for the expenses. The elections agency argues the expenses were incurred by the party and the advertising was produced for its national campaign, which has a separate accounting system under the Canada Elections Act…
…Whether the party attempted to skirt its legal limit of $18.3-million by diverting the expenses to candidates is at the heart of the dispute. Nearly all the candidates who took part in the scheme stood little or no chance of winning their contests. Low levels of donor support gave those candidates ample room for campaign expenses.

It’s crazy stuff and the Cons keep trying to avoid going to court, which basically tells me (and most rational people) that they have something to hide.

Sixth Issue: Stephane Dion’s wife and Facebook

I am all for freedom of speech. 100% behind but I have to disagree with what Janine Krieber did. She has every right to state her opinion, but on Facebook? She claims it was just for friends to see but did she really think it wouldn’t leak? I mean come on!
Her husband is a public figure (and she is a bit of one too) and she goes and spouts her mouth on Facebook? I know 5yrs old that know better than to give away too much information on Facebook or the internet for that matter.
She is only hurting herself, her husband and the Liberal party by doing this. If she really wants to share her opinions, she should get a blog and use that as a medium to express herself on a daily basis instead of just doing a general rant. The Liberals are already hurting (I still can’t figure that out when you compare them to the Cons) and her actions just aren’t helping the matter.