OMG. This is so exciting. Somebody beat a drum, or a gong. After four long months of preparations, Stephen Harper's Con klown regime is finally shuffling back to Parliament. The almost new/nouveau cabinet has been groomed, manicured, given a full body shampoo, an extensive criminal record check, and taught how to repeat their PMO
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LeDaro: Dean Del Mastro: Mike Duffy, Pamela Wallin and now Dean Del Mastro
Del Mastro the Dean of them all. Step aside Duffy and Pamela the Maestro himself is here. “Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro has quit the party’s caucus after he and a campaign staffer were charged with intentionally breaking campaign rules during the 2008 federal election, he said in a statement
Continue readingLeDaro: Mike Duffy: Minimum punishment
He should walk in front of the Parliament with a sign: “I am a thief I stole money from the taxpayers.”
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Mike Duffy’s Mysterious Visit to the Harper PMO
Oh my Satanic Sherlock. This PMO mystery just keeps getting more and more entertaining, in a nightmarish sort of way.Yesterday we found out that although the paper trail was lost, or consumed in the hellish fires humming shredders of the Con regime, Mike Duffy did visit the PMO as the Senate scandal was
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Senate Scandal: How Did Harper Not Know?
Well as you know it's been hard to know what went on in the PMO as the Mike Duffy scandal was breaking. And the Cons were in a frenzy trying to cover it up. Because the PMO operatives would rather cut their own tongues off than squeal. And the paper
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Wonderland Nightmare
He must think he can get away with anything. He must think he can say anything and Canadians will believe him. One moment he's the Phantom of Parliament, the next moment he's Alice in Wonderland. For there he was announcing that he will prorogue Parliament, again, to outline his "new
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Dangerous Senator Duffy
Well I see that the former Law Clerk of Parliament believes that Mike Duffy may have committed no crime. Rob Walsh, who was Parliament's top legal adviser until 2012, says in theory, a criminal offence would occur if money was given to a senator in exchange for some kind of
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On family ties
Laura Ryckewaert’s report on the Cons’ Senate strategy has already received plenty of attention. But I’m more interested in a senior Conservative’s excuses for Stephen Harper’s actual appointees than what looks like another delay strategy in substance: The senior Conservative source said members of the Conservative Party are less uneasy
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Mariana Mazzucato points out that important inventions tend to come from public financing aimed at the greater good – while noting that we should also look to ensure greater public returns on our collective investments: Images of tech entrepreneurs such as Mark
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Tim Harper writes that Stephen Harper’s “lone gunman” argument – already implausible in light of the number of Senators and staffers required to cover up the Clusterduff – is falling apart at the seams. But Gloria Galloway notes that the Senators can bail
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Scary Tale of Stephen Harper and Mr Chainsaw
Even by the standards of the Con propaganda machine it was a bizarre photo-op. Stephen Harper, Peter MacKay, and Julie Fantino in a room full of toys, in a community centre in Toronto. Just so Harper could play Mr Cuddly and Great Law and Order Leader at the same time.And solemnly declare that
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Is Mike Duffy Threatening to Bring Down the Con Regime?
Ever since the Senate scandal began I have always wondered why the Con regime went to such desperate lengths to protect Mike Duffy. Some suggested it was because he was such a good fundraiser. But so was Pamela Wallin and they did nothing to help her.And I have always believed
Continue readingLeDaro: Mike Duffy Expenses: The plot thickens
CTV explains with more specificity after senators David Tkachuk and Carolyn Stewart Olsen denied any involvement with Mike Duffy’s expenses affair and the payment by Nigel Wright to cover Duffy’s $90,000 expenses. Carolyn Stewart and Olsen David Tkachuk “But CTV News never reported that the senators knew about Wright’s $90,000
Continue readingLeDaro: Mike Duffy’s New Portrait
To be hung in the Senate Chamber.
Continue readingLeDaro: New Mona Liza in town
Mona Liza Wallin texting her friend Mike Duffy!
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, on how the two Con appointees at the centre of Stephen Harper’s Senate are exactly the two who should have known better than to abuse the public trust. For further reading…– Brian Bergman and Dale Eisler offer the background on the Saskatchewan PCs’ scheme here, while CBC updated the
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Some Sunday Recreation
Think I’ll go out on my bicycle this morning. In the meantime, enjoy these letters on the Senate imbroglio found in yesterday’s Star: Machiavelli wrote: “Those who governed the state of Florence . . . used to say it was necessary to reconstitute the government every five years . .
Continue readingThe Ranting Canadian: Here is a blast from the past. A drunken, bloated Conservative…
Here is a blast from the past. A drunken, bloated Conservative senator Mike Duffy acts like a pompous, over-stuffed bag of Conservative shit, trying to defend Conservative overspending of our tax dollars by himself and 26 other recently appointed Conservative senators. NDP MP Peter Stoffer rightfully tears a strip off
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Oh, What A Tangled Web
Things are starting to get interesting — and potentially nasty. John Ivison reports in The National Post that Mike Duffy is unhappy: Mr. Duffy’s lawyers have barred him from speaking to the press but he has told friends that he feels he has been thrown under the bus and that
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Is Mike Duffy Planning to Take Stephen Harper to Court?
OMG. It's come to this. Stephen Harper and Mike Duffy are no longer good BBQ buddies. Old Duff feels he's been roasted enough by the PMO, and now he wants Harper to feel the HEAT !!!! If the RCMP investigation into Mike Duffy over alleged breach of trust reaches court, the senator’s
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