Best days behind them
Shorter Stephane Dion: How I long for the days when my party could win dozens of Quebec seats by default simply by picking fights with sovereigntists. Can’t we all agree…
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On divergent rules
Shorter Neil Reynolds:Taxes aimed at higher-wealth individuals only work if the people being taxed follow the law. And since when do we expect our wealthy betters to meet such an…
Selective personal responsibility
Shorter Tasha Kheiriddin:It's utterly unfair to protest the leaders of the cult of short-sighted corporate greed. After all, they couldn't have done half as much damage if they hadn't attracted…
Weapons of mass economic destruction
Shorter Stephen Harper:Unless the beatings intensify, morale will never improve.
We appreciate the sacrifice
Shorter Walt Natynczyk:But somebody has to make use of our expensive entitlements. So I figured, hey, why not me?
Conservative democracy at work
Shorter Gerry Ritz:The only fair vote is one where I get to revise the results after the fact to reflect my preferred outcome.
A response in kind
Shorter Toronto Star: We're *outraged* that our transparently systematic attempt to cause trouble for the NDP was met with an equally systematic refusal to play along. Update: pogge has more.
On warning signs
Shorter Jim Flaherty:Of course economic trouble elsewhere in the world will have negative consequences for Canada. But we won't let that stop us from pushing the same bad advice that's…
On stretches
Shorter Barbara Yaffe:Of course we can find good news for Liberals - just as long as we get creative in defining the term!Update: Actually, there's a serious point to be…
Democracy in action
Shorter Bob Bjornerud:Of course we couldn't possibly object to giving farmers a chance to vote on the future of the Canadian Wheat Board - just as long as it doesn't…
On unwanted assistance
Shorter Harper PCO response to anybody requesting information it would prefer to pre-emptively classify as unavailable:Are you sure you want us to comply with the law on access to information?…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- With health care once again receiving plenty of attention on the U.S. political scene thanks to the Republicans' plan to dismantle publicly-funded Medicare,…
On responsibility
Shorter Con instructions to ministers:If your underlings break the law based on your instructions, it's their own damn fault for taking orders. So go nuts!