One of the most shameless lies we're getting from Furious Leader is that there is that the Liberals have joined into coalition with the NDP and the Bloc Quebecois.
That's not true.
The Bloc isn't in the coalition, it's merely agreed not to support a no-confidence vote for a relatively limited period. It won't caucus with the coalition, it won't have representation in cabinet and it certainly won't have a veto as our scaremongering Tory (soon to be opposition leader) claims.
Once again Stephen Harper digs into his grimy little bag of Rovian tricks to deceive the public. Oh, Beware the Bloc! The Liberals and NDP are capitulating to the sworn enemies of our cherished country. They're so power crazed they're willing to sell us all down the river.
There is somebody power crazed but that would be the individual who uses blatant lies and scare tactics against the very public he's sworn to serve. That would be our Furious Leader, Stephen Joseph Harper.
Steve says the voters have spoken. I suppose they did, those who could be bothered to go to the polls in September. Of course, like all politicians, Steve claims an innate knowledge of what the voters said. Just what did they say? I guess they said they didn't want Harper to have a majority government. I expect a bunch of them said they weren't drawn to Stephane Dion. You could probably come up with a dozen insights into what the vote meant and, if you can't, try tossing bones and reading entrails.
One thing the voters did say was that they wanted a functioning parliament and, especially in the case of a second minority, that means a government that would sincerely cooperate with the opposition, that would be ready to compromise and would seek to build the strongest consensus possible.
That's the message that Stephen Harper either didn't hear or chose to ignore. That's why he's in the spot he's put himself in today. That's why he's lying through his teeth and doing his damnedest to scare hell out of the Canadian people.
Now Stephen Harper knows what the deal is among the opposition. He and his advisers have scoured every paragraph, dissected every phrase and digested every nuance looking for something, some revelation he could use to denounce the opposition. It speaks volumes that he comes to the Canadian people with lies about a coalition including the Bloc in which the separatists are afforded a veto over the Canadian government. It speaks volumes about Stephen Harper and, through his own words, defines the man's integrity.
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The part that is really depressing is that we know that his lies ( "...without your say, without your consent, and without your vote...") are loud enough, repeated often enough, and propogated so well with well-funded commercials, that they are going to work. Progressive parties don't have a chance, as the Demlocrats found out in the US, against well-funded liars who will stoop to anything to stay in power.
You coalition types are starting to sound pretty desperate. Last night, I had pretty much accepted that the Opposition would have its way. But today, the shrillness coming from coalition supporters allows me hope. Not that I was losing sleep over it anyway.
Why does the Bloc Quebecois get the right to support anything. Aren't they Provincal? It sounds, looks and smells as if everyone is less than ethical about this. A. Morris
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