A One Day Wonder

Tuesday, February 07, 2006

A One Day Wonder

Well was the optics and bad press that Harper got over Emerson, Fortier, and the Liberals are trying to pin him with O'Conner, worth it. Of course this is parlimentary politics folks. The elections are over. The rules of the game change. Now you are a minority in the house you play by the house rules. Which is maintian power, build a government and governing party and perpare for the next election.Maintain droits as the RCMP say.

That's what this was all about. However it's not a one day wonder or a one day issue.A Tory Radio Talk Show host from Ottawa on Duffy's show on CTV said its going to last four days and that's it. Smug bastard. One day headline or four day headline, it will be a matter that will get raised again in Question Period.

And then Harper ran away from reporters today, avoiding the traditional entering the house photo op. I guess this is the change he brings to the house. Secrecy and paranoia. Tommorow cabinet hides at Meech Lake and plots its strategy.

My what arrogance, truly a sign of being the ruling party, the government. Even after twelve years out of power, the arrogance comes back so quickly. And those who thought the politics of arrogance and entitlement were limited to the Liberals, failed to appreciate they are the trappings of power of any party that makes government under our British Parlimentary System. They may run on being from the outside Ottawa, but once in power the game is to stay in power.

And as much as I would like to agree with Blogging Tory Greg Staples, call me cyncial but all the disappointed BT's and Conservatives will swollow their dissapointment, idealism, and vote Conservative again, cause well the ends justify the means.

Political Capital

Conservative strategists have called this controversy a "one-day wonder". It better be. This better have been the one-day the Conservatives play games like this because a large chunk of us voted for politics as unusual and if we don't get it now don't think we won't look elsewhere.

This Ottawa Citizen has the funniest headline which gives new meaning to ironic. Followed by the carefully neutral headline of the Star Phoenix. Followed by the understaement of the year, on the front page of the Montreal Gazette.

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And then there is the Ottawa Sun which sums it up nicely, they don't care whose in power as long as Canada's capital doesn't move to Calgary, like all the headoffices have.