Well I guess he knew he couldn't hide forever eh?And that he had to get as far away from the media and the Senate scandals as he could, without looking like he was fleeing the country.Mike Duffy's threat to drag him into court and grill him like a sardine seal
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Montreal Simon: Con Porky Action Plan Ads Pulled for Fraud !!!!!
As if Stephen Harper's foul Porky Action Plan ads weren't annoying enough. Especially since we're paying for them. Now it turns out his newest ones are being pulled because they are FRAUDULENT !!! A Harper government advertisement touting a jobs program that does not yet exist has been pulled from the airwaves and
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Pamela Wallin and the Corruption Cons
Well in the beginning of the end it was almost an anti-climax eh? Another damning report, another Con Senator being investigated by the RCMP.The independent audit of Senator Pamela Wallin's expenses has been referred to the RCMP by a Senate committee that is also imposing restrictions on her travel and
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper’s New Massive PR Problem
Well for one glorious but very brief moment Stephen Harper must have thought he was getting a break.Must have thought that Canadians would be too busy talking about the royal baby to think about all the scandals hanging around the neck of his rotting government.But sadly for him when the bun finally
Continue readingMontreal Simon: James Moore and the Framing of Justin Trudeau
In the ghastly Orwellian circus that the Cons have turned our Parliament into, it was a wonderful moment.There was James Moore, filling in for Stephen Harper, doing what he has been doing since Great Ugly Leader left for Europe in a hurry.Answering every question by smearing the opposition.Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Will Stephen Harper Resign Before 2015?
Well last night I shared one of my favourite dreams with you eh?The one where the crazed alien Stephen Harper, battered beyond recognition by scandal, suddenly decides to quit.And I said how encouraged I was to see some big shots in the MSM also musing about whether he might resign before
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Rob Ford and the Con Kingdom of Denial
For eight days he turned Canada's largest city into a circus, and the laughing stock of the world.For eight days he refused to answer any questions about whether he was caught on camera smoking crack and making racist and homophobic comments.Only to emerge today, with his head shaved like Colonel Kurtz
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Why the Rob Ford Scandal is also Hurting the Harper Cons
OMG. This is so spooky.I knew they were as close as peas in a pod.I remember how in that video of them at Rob Ford's bush party, they were falling all over each other.But who knew that just days after Stephen Harper lost his Chief-of Staff, Rob Ford would fire
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Horse Whisperer
He is angry, he is desperate, his whole world is collapsing around him under the weight of scandal.The Duffy problem just keeps getting worse. Making it almost impossible to claim that he didn't know what was going on.His shell shocked caucus is revolting. Demanding that he do something, anything, to make this nightmare
Continue readingMontreal Simon: How the Coalition Came Back to Haunt Stephen Harper
More than four years later I can still remember how frightened Stephen Harper looked.The Great Canadian Coalition was threatening to remove him from power. And the people were in the streets.He was scared, he was desperate. But in the end he survived. The Governor General gave him what he wanted.
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Rob Ford and the Incredible Exploding Cons
Wherever you went in Toronto today you couldn't get away from Rob Ford.Everybody was talking about him eh? Wondering whether he's a crack head, or just plain crazy.So I wasn't really surprised to find him waiting for me on my way home.And as I stared at this ghastly apparition, I
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Mike Duffy and the Dark Heart of the Scandal
Well he's finally been kicked out of Con caucus.Senator Mike Duffy has resigned from the Conservative caucus and will sit as an Independent amid controversy over his living and travel expense claims.Even as the scandals keep on coming.Sen. Mike Duffy attempted to influence the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission’s upcoming
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Con Mob and the Senate Scandal
Golly. When I compared the Harper Cons to a cult last night, I forgot to mention one thing eh?They're are a cult. But they are strongly influenced by The Sopranos .Where if you get in financial trouble, Tony tells you to go see Vinnie in the back room, and he'll cut you
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Fatal Boondoggle
Oh. My. Gotterdammerung. Not even Sybil the Soothsayer could have predicted it would end like this eh?Who could have known that Stephen Harper's rotting Con regime would collapse this way? Not with a bang, but a boondoggle. Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Jason Kenney and the Foreign Workers Scam
Well it was quite a spectacle. Jason Kenney in the House of Commons, trying to limit the damage of the foreign worker's scandal.Desperately trying to make it go away.But the look on Peter Kent's face told the story, showed how much that scandal has hurt the Cons.And nothing Kenney said will make
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Slow Erosion of the Harper Regime
I told you he was looking a little worried, or a little desperate.I told you he's been acting funny, or even crazier than usual.And now we know why.It seems that Canadians are finally getting tired of Stephen Harper.And his support is slowly crumbling.Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Slow Destruction of the Harper Regime
It's like a danse macabre. It's hard to know how much more he can take before he implodes.Or does something crazy. Because it's all going horribly wrong. The opposition has him in their sights.And in all the years I've been watching him, I've never seen Stephen Harper looking so defeated and
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Diane Finley’s Hideous War on the Poor
She has always been one of the most brutish Cons.A hardline right-wing ideologue who would wage war on Canada's poorest and most vulnerable citizens.And have the unmitigated gall to deny it.Last month she claimed that EI inspectors didn't have quotas for uncovering fraud that they were expected to discover. Only to
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Humiliating Collapse of The Porky Action Plan
Uh oh. The alarms are honking away at Porky Action Headquarters. The Con hogs are still strutting around on their hind legs promoting their fraudulent porky plan.But the reviews are coming in, and the stench of panic is is the air.Because they are DEVASTATING.Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Apocalyptic Destruction of The Harper Cons
Damn. As much as I hate doing it, I'm going to have to give Boss Harper some credit eh?The final collapse of his Con regime is turning out to be a heavenly show. And far more wonderfully apocalyptic than even I had hoped.For if on Wednesday it was Wallin, flying
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