Golly. I knew if we put Mike Duffy's mug on a milk carton something good might happen.And sure enough, it did.He took a short walk in the snow, and finally admitted he was wrong mistaken confused.Senator Mike Duffy says he's going to pay back the living expenses he's claimed for his
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Montreal Simon: The Enduring Mystery of Mike Duffy
Golly. If this Mike Duffy mystery continues, we're going to have to put his mug on a milk carton, and ask the public for help.Ask them have you seen this senator? Where does he live? And holy jumping jelly beans !! How many houses does he have? P.E.I. Conservative Senator Mike Duffy,
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Because
… I just couldn’t resist reposting this morning’s Star editorial cartoon. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Scourge of the Undead
While there was much talk in the House of Commons yesterday about how to prevent a ‘zombie apocalypse,’ in Canada, Bob Hepburn has his own solution on how to deal with the scourge of the undead: hold a referendum on abolishing the Senate. Noting that it costs well over $100
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Canada Politics News Watch on Monday, February 11, 2013: Morning Picks
By Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Feb. 11, 2013: Senator Patrick Brazeau: Brazeau symbolic of Harper’s indifference to First Nations – Winnipeg Free Press Brazeau, Harper and Idle No More – The Tyee Let’s talk about punishing mentally ill – Winnipeg Free Press Brazeau Just Latest Thrown Under Bus by Harper – The Tyee Editorial: Unreformed
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Shawn McCarthy discusses the Cons’ latest plan to sell Keystone XL to the U.S. – which involves hoping that the best-resourced government on the planet will be suckered into accepting a transparently false pretense that the Cons have the slightest interest in addressing
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Why Is This Man Smiling?
Could it have anything to do with the fact that he has made a successful career out of masquerades? First, of course, Mike Duffy donned the mask of a political reporter, pretending to be an objective seeker of the truth, initially for CBC and then later for CTV, all the
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Brazeau Duffy Con Senate Show
Uh oh. It looks as if Senator Brazzman's words have come back to haunt him.One moment he was putting down Chief Spence, and claiming he's a better example for native youth than she is.The next moment he was telling that one to the police AND Boss Harper. Read more »
Continue readingThe Ranting Canadian: Mike Duffy: pig in the city Canadian senator Mike Duffy, the…
Mike Duffy: pig in the city Canadian senator Mike Duffy, the porcine Conservative from Ottawa, has been caught in yet another scandal, this time for falsely claiming Prince Edward Island as his primary residence and subsequently billing the Canadian taxpayers for related living expenses (more than $30,000 since 2010!). The
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday morning reading. – Sixth Estate is the latest to weigh in on Statistics Canada’s findings about inequality: Progressive taxes are based on the idea that the more money you earn, the more you spend on unnecessary luxuries. Poor people therefore have very low tax rates
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Mike Duffy and the Con Turkeys
Oh boy. To think the Senate used to be known as the House of Sober Second Thought.But that was long ago eh?Now it's known as Stephen Harper's House of the Gobbling Con Turkeys. Or just Puffy's Place. Conservative Senator Mike Duffy’s office contacted Prince Edward Island’s minister of health to discuss
Continue readingLeDaro: Mike Duffy swimming in taxpayers’ money
Conservative Senator Mike Duffy has claimed more than $33,000 in living allowances intended to defray senators’ costs of maintaining a second home in the National Capital Region, even though he is a long-time Ottawa resident. The quarterly expense reports that senators are legally required to file show that Duffy spent
Continue readingLeDaro: Mike Duffy’s Proposal of Maritime Union, Not Going to Happen
What is wrong with Rob Ford Mike Duffy and these Conservative Senators? Talk of Maritime Union has been going on since pre-Confederation, too many hurdles and supposed benefits are not proven (would not Nova Scotia – or even Halifax itself – just …
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics blog: calgary-centre conservatives and liberals choosing their by-election candidates.
TweetOn Saturday, August 25, Conservative Party members in the riding of Calgary-Centre will choose a candidate to carry their party’s banner in an upcoming and yet-to-be called by-election. Six candidates are contesting the nomination. The Conservative candidate is widely expected to win the by-election in this moderate conservative voting downtown
Continue readingQuote of the day from Mike Duffy: "[Robogate] frankly burns my butt, because the dirty tricksters are at it and I don’t think anybody in politics like this."
Duffy poses with his Oscar If you can get past the image of Mike Duffy’s butt burning, this is the perfect Conservative take on anything, let alone during the caught-with-their-pants-down Conservative Robogate scandal. Blame “third parties”. Anyone or anything but the Conservative party. “I don’t believe it was the Conservative
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Conservatives: Farther Gone Than I Had Realized
The Harperites are more out of touch with reality than I realized if they think this Tory bought-and-paid-for hack is going to do them any good in their voter-suppression crimes. Recommend this Post
Continue readingJacked Up: Duffy’s time in senate has been a grotesque scene.
Now I’ve always known that Stephen Harper was lacking when it came to foresight. His in-action on environment, denial of a recession etc are all good enough indicators that he’s more concerned with immediate political gain than he is about actually analyzing a situation and contemplating the possible outcomes of
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