tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post4803262993029451602..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: It's Time to Rein In the Prime Minister's OfficeThe Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-25774310576784208182013-05-30T16:03:32.194-07:002013-05-30T16:03:32.194-07:00Here is Harper video with similar, but legit gold ...Here is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgHVari7n4Y" rel="nofollow">Harper video with similar, but legit gold</a> to use instead.Saskboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13258259356749068135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-70426699582773290952013-05-30T15:50:58.745-07:002013-05-30T15:50:58.745-07:00Alison is right about the quote at the end. A lot ...Alison is <a href="https://saskboy.wordpress.com/2013/05/24/ethical-amnesia-confused-as-harper/" rel="nofollow">right about the quote</a> at the end. A lot of people mistook it as actual Harper words.Saskboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13258259356749068135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-63535542794326238862013-05-27T13:48:36.713-07:002013-05-27T13:48:36.713-07:00Impeachment would be tricky, Anyong. How do you p...Impeachment would be tricky, Anyong. How do you prevent it from becoming an abused tool of partisan politics? A vote in the Commons? Would the Governor General have the power to rescind a sitting prime minister's appointment and designate another instead?<br /><br />As for South Korea and its history of democracy, let's not get carried away.<br /><br />I have mixed thoughts on term limits. If the public places great confidence in an individual, particularly in times of crisis or emergency for example, why should they not be allowed to keep that person in office?The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-53290544569791658172013-05-27T12:26:59.524-07:002013-05-27T12:26:59.524-07:00We definitely need a form of Impeachment regarding...We definitely need a form of Impeachment regarding misconduct on the part of the Canadian PM which can be called upon by the opposition, disgruntled members of Parliament or the voting people of Canada. Also, the PM should serve only one five year term. Being PM of this country is not a job but an honour and as such should not be ensconcment time. The President of South Korea serves a five year period and it works very well....for those who don't know S. Korea is a democratic country with a Senate and has a system of Impeachmemt. In Canada the Governor General doesn't get it as he has less power than the PM...shamefulAnyonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15765384812104835792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-65584081640294250012013-05-25T10:51:53.480-07:002013-05-25T10:51:53.480-07:00What works in a Democracy, does not work in a Dict...What works in a Democracy, does not work in a Dictatorship. If Canada was a Democracy, Harper would have been flung in prison long ago. Doesn't anybody get, we have no rights. <br /><br />We have a monster of a Dictator P.M. giving this country, to Communist China. Harper's Omni-Bull-S-Bill gives Red China permission to sue Canada if, anyone blocks Red China's takeover of Canada. China sued in BC to take the mining jobs. Over 300 BC miners applied for the 200 mine jobs, Harper gave Communist China. Chinese miners earn, $800 per month. There are nine mines and mine expansions, going into Northern BC. Who do you think, Harper will give those jobs to?<br /><br />With Harper's FIPA deal with Communist China? We don't even know how much of Canada, Harper has signed over to Communist China? What part of that, don't people get?<br /><br />I signed the petition against, Harper's treacherous FIPA deal with Red ChinaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-51876794699820848832013-05-25T02:02:37.998-07:002013-05-25T02:02:37.998-07:00"The universal take on Wright was that he was..."The universal take on Wright was that he was the ultimate straight arrow, a great guy."<br /><br />The far right take on Wright is predictably positive. In reality, he is just another choir boy who was rogered on the altar of corporate fascist ideology.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-31659084320878368272013-05-24T22:51:14.715-07:002013-05-24T22:51:14.715-07:00thanks for such a clear analysis. You really shoul...thanks for such a clear analysis. You really should be the next chief of staff, you could clean up that corruption in an afternoon with your razor sharp mind:)debhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17230156686226794005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-8164610070332808242013-05-24T17:15:14.590-07:002013-05-24T17:15:14.590-07:00Thanks, Alison, I'll try to check that out.Thanks, Alison, I'll try to check that out.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-67834496775091893072013-05-24T16:44:17.767-07:002013-05-24T16:44:17.767-07:00Excellent piece.
One small thing - I believe that...Excellent piece.<br /><br />One small thing - I believe that quote widely attributed to Harper was actually written by <a href="http://kevinswoodshed.blogspot.ca/2012/03/harpers-one.html" rel="nofollow">Kev at The Woodshed</a> about Nixon in March 2012 and he didn't attribute it to Harper.Alisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09811694143714068436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-13145520262012935122013-05-24T15:46:14.762-07:002013-05-24T15:46:14.762-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-3082972967550224322013-05-24T14:12:19.003-07:002013-05-24T14:12:19.003-07:00Tkachuk was Grant Devine's bum boy during the ...Tkachuk was Grant Devine's bum boy during the days of the Great Saskatchewan Corruption. At least there's some consistency in the Conservative ranks.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-44434763444278725472013-05-24T14:07:20.077-07:002013-05-24T14:07:20.077-07:00What about the fact that when Tkachuk called the P...What about the fact that when Tkachuk called the PMO about the report (which was supposed to be a secret matter anyway), that he got this reply: <br /><br />"the prime minister's office was very concerned about this. They don't like this scandal going on. It was hurting us politically, " Tkachuk told Maclean's.<br /><br />Isn't it something of a scandal that a Senator can so brazenly reveal that the PMO is acting primarily in the interest of the Party and that neither the Senator nor the media find that the least bit remarkable?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-54412877540125940602013-05-24T12:46:22.757-07:002013-05-24T12:46:22.757-07:00I don't know. Have we regressed into a "...I don't know. Have we regressed into a "post-accountability" era in which form always trumps substance, appearance is everything, and memory wanes and expires on the lunar cycle? If so, we have become not a society but a herd to be corralled and penned and prodded in this direction or that. <br /><br />How many times have we been warned of the perils of the internet and social networking era to our privacy and on from that to the balance of our political rights and freedoms? Is it any wonder today that such vast economic and political power is shifting from the many to the few?<br /><br />Look at the corruption in today's "bought and paid for" U.S. Congress and the astonishing tolerance for it among the American public. They may grouse but they ultimately acquiesce to their political and economic disenfranchisement. For what could be more invaluable to the corrupt than indifference to corruption?<br /><br />The change in just the course of two decades is alarming. We, as a people, reviled the corruption of the Mulroney government which went from a massive majority to winning just two seats in the subsequent election. It didn't even have party status after that.<br /><br />At least in Mulroney's government the corruption was pure avarice. In this government it manifests as an assault on democracy itself, something far worse by an order of magnitude. And where is the public outrage today?The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-81351599076192614262013-05-24T12:17:27.728-07:002013-05-24T12:17:27.728-07:00Owen Gray:
Modern NA conservatives have become ma...Owen Gray:<br /><br />Modern NA conservatives have become masters of projectionism it seems, so I find it entirely apt that Harper demonstrates such a mastery of it. That he would be unaware of it would also come as no surprise, his is a head space I would find terrifying to live in/with, the paranoia alone would be more than I could take. When you consider this comes from someone that grew up under intense and abusive bullying and as an adult has been living with health issues that could cause fatality with little warning this should say something. I am accustomed to living with the darker sides of the human soul, yet I still find a lot of light to life, I am not so sure Harper is so capable going by his part words and deeds.Scotianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06284856315992405261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-27237745561922504502013-05-24T12:12:47.767-07:002013-05-24T12:12:47.767-07:00Well reasoned, well laid out, well said. I couldn...Well reasoned, well laid out, well said. I couldn't have said it better myself. You are entirely correct about the need for the PMO to be out of the public light to operate, just as you are that because such is needed that the ultimate accountability for what it does *HAS* to rest in the person of the Prime Minister directly. Part of what has always infuriated me with Harper and his "lickspittles" out there is how they relied on the lack of awareness in the wider public of basic civics and process structures/requirements where governing was concerned (assuming that they themselves even knew, although I think at least some had to, if only to know exactly how to corrupt and defeat them), as has been seen many times over. Being something of a process geek in politics this has been an exceptionally frustrating thing for me, as well as having been one of the brightest early warning lights of just how dangerous and bad for Canada Harper and his government could and now has proven to have been for this nation.<br /><br />Thank you for being someone that gets that and writes so well about it, it is nice not feeling alone about caring about the underlying process and its importance beyond any partisan concerns for leader/party/ideology. For without a strong structure and process to channel power responsibly there can be no good government regardless of whose government it is. Where Harper has always been the greatest threat was to process because he clearly does not believe that rules and laws apply to him and his goals, and are only important when they trap his foes. While I am not comfortable going as far as you in calling him sociopathic, I can sadly see where you have a basis to be doing so based on his actions even more than his words over the years. That I should be able to say that of *ANY* party leader let alone Prime Minister truly shocks and horrifies me (and no this is not empty rhetoric, it is a true thing for those that think I am just using colourful language, I'm not, this really isn't something I ever expected to say of a national Canadian political leader let alone PM, I've disagreed with leaders and PMs in the past while still seeing their humanity in full bloom, Harper is something entirely different that way), and shows just how far down the rabbit hole we have gone without noticing it as a collective society IMHO.Scotianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06284856315992405261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-89903283330117665492013-05-24T12:04:24.191-07:002013-05-24T12:04:24.191-07:00It's telling isn't it, Mound, how what Ste...It's telling isn't it, Mound, how what Stephen Harper has said about others has come back to haunt him.<br /><br />But I suspect he has no sense of irony.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-73895717461044176372013-05-24T11:30:25.112-07:002013-05-24T11:30:25.112-07:00Something gets left out of most narratives. Harper...Something gets left out of most narratives. Harper let Duffy keep the swag.<br /><br />Duffy scammed $90k+. <br />Duffy got caught telling porkies.<br />Nigel gave Duffy a $90k get out of jail free cheque.<br />Duffy gave LeBreton the cheque, the report was laundered, the bad people were shut up and Duf gets to drink happily ever after.<br />Duffy is happy with hia job , the perks and the $90,000 bonus for filing fraudulant claims.rumleyfipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03346146988416679423noreply@blogger.com