Not much seems to have changed on the provincial scene in the past few weeks even though everyone's fixated on the federal election. Dalton's still a douche, but that will always be the case. The PC Party of Ontario continues to recruit top-tier candidates like Canadian Taxpayers Federation taxfighter-in-chief Kevin Gaudet. The Liberals continue to reward failures like e-Health hack Sarah Kramer and have teachers hit their students up for money to try and keep the Liberals afloat in October. Gotta start getting those kids used to paying union dues early! :P
I can just picture the scene at every house in Ontario when little Aidan comes home from school and asks for money. "No mom, it's not for a field trip this time....no, not for a bake sale either...."
P.S. Oh, and I *hope* Norm Sterling supports the Liberal candidate in CMM because a) it won't make a difference as to which party holds that riding in October, b) enough people in his own riding showed up to ensure he wouldn't be their representative and not enough people in his own riding showed up to support him, and c) it will make all the Liberals flocking into Eglinton Lawrence to avenge the honour of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named look like a bunch of colossal hypocrites, and then the only "rift" people will be noticing will be those that separate the strands of Dalton's credibility from one another.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Thursday, March 31, 2011
MacLaren/Sterling
So, the results are in. And....I'm not worried. :)
What you hear from the Liberal cheering section on Twitter, underneath all the false concern and outrage, is a massive sigh of relief. They think this will make their job easier. Easier to direct the people's attention away from their miserable record.
You can't blame them. Up until recently, all the Liberals had to do was find a bunch of scary quotes to demonize their opponents and coast to a majority. Never mind how effective or professional the Liberals actually were. Never mind if they actually delivered on their promises of a better world for everyone. No sir. What mattered was that a Conservative said something controversial, and that just wouldn't do.
But then something funny happened: A guy named Stephen Harper won the federal election. All the Liberals screamed about how right wing he was. The trouble was though....it didn't work. That didn't mean the Liberals changed their strategy, though. They kept right on trying to scare people into voting Liberal before those people stopped to think whether the Liberals were actually interested in protecting anyone.
They still have occasional success. But it's getting less and less effective. Not because people don't recoil in horror at scary quotes, but because people are starting to realize that the Liberals are not as progressive as they say they are. Pointing to the Jack MacLarens and Mike Harrises of this world has become a means to an end. It has become an easy way for Liberals to win government without doing what they say they will do.
What happened in Carleton-Mississippi Mills was simple: People (so it seems to me) got tired of someone who they thought wasn't representing them effectively and voted him out. In October, the same thing could happen. Only if it does happen, I doubt the Liberals will be so happy.
Oh, and in case people think I'm going easy on MacLaren? The onus is on him to prove he can stand up to the Liberal fear tsunami that is about to wash over this province. Because if he doesn't, it'll matter a lot less who is and who isn't a "real conservative."
What you hear from the Liberal cheering section on Twitter, underneath all the false concern and outrage, is a massive sigh of relief. They think this will make their job easier. Easier to direct the people's attention away from their miserable record.
You can't blame them. Up until recently, all the Liberals had to do was find a bunch of scary quotes to demonize their opponents and coast to a majority. Never mind how effective or professional the Liberals actually were. Never mind if they actually delivered on their promises of a better world for everyone. No sir. What mattered was that a Conservative said something controversial, and that just wouldn't do.
But then something funny happened: A guy named Stephen Harper won the federal election. All the Liberals screamed about how right wing he was. The trouble was though....it didn't work. That didn't mean the Liberals changed their strategy, though. They kept right on trying to scare people into voting Liberal before those people stopped to think whether the Liberals were actually interested in protecting anyone.
They still have occasional success. But it's getting less and less effective. Not because people don't recoil in horror at scary quotes, but because people are starting to realize that the Liberals are not as progressive as they say they are. Pointing to the Jack MacLarens and Mike Harrises of this world has become a means to an end. It has become an easy way for Liberals to win government without doing what they say they will do.
What happened in Carleton-Mississippi Mills was simple: People (so it seems to me) got tired of someone who they thought wasn't representing them effectively and voted him out. In October, the same thing could happen. Only if it does happen, I doubt the Liberals will be so happy.
Oh, and in case people think I'm going easy on MacLaren? The onus is on him to prove he can stand up to the Liberal fear tsunami that is about to wash over this province. Because if he doesn't, it'll matter a lot less who is and who isn't a "real conservative."
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Tread Carefully
So, despite the minor matter of an $18 million whoopsydoodle on the eco-fee, Ontario Budget 2011 has landed and it's unlikely to offend anyone besides us conservatives who are wondering exactly how Dalton's going to pay for his wonderful ideas with no tax increases.
Now of course we all know that Dalton will find another way to tax us if given the opportunity. It's what he does. But let's reflect on another, more positive matter: Dalton could have introduced a bunch of new taxes in this budget, but he preferred to tread carefully. Why? Because he's afraid of us.
Think of how far we've come from the days when the Liberals could ignore our criticisms. In Budget 2008, the Liberals spent more time blasting the federal conservatives than they did the PC Party of Ontario. Now, with their federal cousins facing annihilation, Dwight Duncan barely utters a squeak about Harper's budget and has his sights firmly trained on Hudak. And, if Dwight Duncan wasn't about as threatening as Barney the Dinosaur, I might be worried.
No, it's the Liberals who are walking the straight and narrow now, worrying that they don't upset anyone too important as they tiptoe towards October. How things change.
Not that it matters, though. He can hide behind a bland, big spending budget and a federal election all he wants. Soon it'll be us and him.
Now of course we all know that Dalton will find another way to tax us if given the opportunity. It's what he does. But let's reflect on another, more positive matter: Dalton could have introduced a bunch of new taxes in this budget, but he preferred to tread carefully. Why? Because he's afraid of us.
Think of how far we've come from the days when the Liberals could ignore our criticisms. In Budget 2008, the Liberals spent more time blasting the federal conservatives than they did the PC Party of Ontario. Now, with their federal cousins facing annihilation, Dwight Duncan barely utters a squeak about Harper's budget and has his sights firmly trained on Hudak. And, if Dwight Duncan wasn't about as threatening as Barney the Dinosaur, I might be worried.
No, it's the Liberals who are walking the straight and narrow now, worrying that they don't upset anyone too important as they tiptoe towards October. How things change.
Not that it matters, though. He can hide behind a bland, big spending budget and a federal election all he wants. Soon it'll be us and him.
Friday, March 25, 2011
Look On The Bright Side, Iggy.....
....if I were you, I wouldn't want Dalton to campaign with me.
STRATFORD, ONT.—Ontario’s Liberal premier says he’ll campaign with his MP brother in Ottawa South but not with federal Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff if there’s a federal election.
“I’m gonna stay focused on my responsibilities,” Premier Dalton McGuinty told reporters Friday after a speech to a Chamber of Commerce luncheon.
“If I do any campaigning it’ll be with my brother,” he added, referring to Ottawa South Liberal MP David McGuinty.
“Undoubtedly he will ask and, undoubtedly, my mother will obligate me to help,” the premier quipped.
It’s odd that with Finance Minister Dwight Duncan offering to campaign with Ignatieff that McGuinty wouldn’t do the same, said Progressive Conservative MPP Sylvia Jones.
“The polls today clearly didn’t bode well for Ignatieff and maybe they’re trying to separate themselves a bit,” said Jones of Dufferin-Peel-Wellington-Grey.
STRATFORD, ONT.—Ontario’s Liberal premier says he’ll campaign with his MP brother in Ottawa South but not with federal Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff if there’s a federal election.
“I’m gonna stay focused on my responsibilities,” Premier Dalton McGuinty told reporters Friday after a speech to a Chamber of Commerce luncheon.
“If I do any campaigning it’ll be with my brother,” he added, referring to Ottawa South Liberal MP David McGuinty.
“Undoubtedly he will ask and, undoubtedly, my mother will obligate me to help,” the premier quipped.
It’s odd that with Finance Minister Dwight Duncan offering to campaign with Ignatieff that McGuinty wouldn’t do the same, said Progressive Conservative MPP Sylvia Jones.
“The polls today clearly didn’t bode well for Ignatieff and maybe they’re trying to separate themselves a bit,” said Jones of Dufferin-Peel-Wellington-Grey.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Budget Time!!!
I refer, of course, to the Ontario budget. What, you think anyone really cares about that other budget? Please.
The early reviews aren't good. Tasha Khierridin says the province's fiscal insanity is starting to rival that of Quebec, Martin Regg Cohn says Dalton's own bureaucrats are beginning to admit Ontario is underwater and sinking fast, and Adam Radwanski isn't convinced that anyone in the McGuinty government has a handle on our province's runaway health costs. That's a thumbs down from the Post, the Globe, and the Star.
All right, all right. All eyes are on Ottawa. If the Opposition is really dumb enough to let a federal election happen, blogging will be sparse. Unless of course Dwight Duncan eats somebody.
The early reviews aren't good. Tasha Khierridin says the province's fiscal insanity is starting to rival that of Quebec, Martin Regg Cohn says Dalton's own bureaucrats are beginning to admit Ontario is underwater and sinking fast, and Adam Radwanski isn't convinced that anyone in the McGuinty government has a handle on our province's runaway health costs. That's a thumbs down from the Post, the Globe, and the Star.
Oh, I get it now! I'm supposed to make the deficit get smaller!
Some may speculate that the budget will be called "Turning The Corner", but that clearly doesn't work because downward spirals don't have any corners.
All right, all right. All eyes are on Ottawa. If the Opposition is really dumb enough to let a federal election happen, blogging will be sparse. Unless of course Dwight Duncan eats somebody.
Monday, March 21, 2011
Remembrance of Scandals Past
Big, big props to Jack and Coke With A Lime for taking the time to enumerate no less than 30 of Dalton's worst scandals in list form.
From first term favourites like the health tax and the slush fund scandal, to more recent screwups like the hydro rebate fraud and delaying the review of the LHINs until after the election, to stuff even I forgot about because trying to track the endless fail parade that is the McGuinty government causes the mind to wander, it's all here. For example, did you remember that Dalton implemented a tire tax after saying he wouldn't? Did you want to remember? Well, it's on the list!
Dr. Phil says that past behaviour is the best predictor of future behaviour, so you would be quite justified in using this list as a guide to knowing when Dalton is lying his bony butt off.
Let's say Dalton is trying to sweep the Jill Anzarut breast cancer drug mess under the rug by granting new powers to something called Cancer Care Ontario. But a quick check of Jack's list (#6, to be exact) indicates that Cancer Care Ontario doled out contracts eHealth-style. And just like that Cancer Care Ontario is as popular as....well, cancer.
Or how about Dalton's dear pals at the Ontario Power Authority? Seems that well-connected Liberals are making quite the pretty penny while Ontarians are losing lots of pennies on their hydro bills. So when the Liberals start bleating that these overpowered cronies are doing "good work", you can direct them to items #25 and #26 on the list which describe the smart meter scandal and one of many hydro rate hikes, respectively. And you can provide some context for the Liberals appointing their friends to high-rolling do-nothing jobs by scrolling on down to #30, which talks about the massive increase in the number of people on the sunshine list (that would be people in the public sector making $100,000+ a year).
What a fantastic list! I think I'll have a jack and coke with lime myself to celebrate.
P.S. I had a good chuckle when I saw that "journalist" Ben Chin is one of the Liberal goons on the OPA payroll. Here's an ad from 2007 that nobody but me saw where he's standing in a hole for some reason....and when I saw it, I had proof that Liberals really can't tell their asses from a hole in the ground! :)
From first term favourites like the health tax and the slush fund scandal, to more recent screwups like the hydro rebate fraud and delaying the review of the LHINs until after the election, to stuff even I forgot about because trying to track the endless fail parade that is the McGuinty government causes the mind to wander, it's all here. For example, did you remember that Dalton implemented a tire tax after saying he wouldn't? Did you want to remember? Well, it's on the list!
Dr. Phil says that past behaviour is the best predictor of future behaviour, so you would be quite justified in using this list as a guide to knowing when Dalton is lying his bony butt off.
Let's say Dalton is trying to sweep the Jill Anzarut breast cancer drug mess under the rug by granting new powers to something called Cancer Care Ontario. But a quick check of Jack's list (#6, to be exact) indicates that Cancer Care Ontario doled out contracts eHealth-style. And just like that Cancer Care Ontario is as popular as....well, cancer.
Or how about Dalton's dear pals at the Ontario Power Authority? Seems that well-connected Liberals are making quite the pretty penny while Ontarians are losing lots of pennies on their hydro bills. So when the Liberals start bleating that these overpowered cronies are doing "good work", you can direct them to items #25 and #26 on the list which describe the smart meter scandal and one of many hydro rate hikes, respectively. And you can provide some context for the Liberals appointing their friends to high-rolling do-nothing jobs by scrolling on down to #30, which talks about the massive increase in the number of people on the sunshine list (that would be people in the public sector making $100,000+ a year).
What a fantastic list! I think I'll have a jack and coke with lime myself to celebrate.
P.S. I had a good chuckle when I saw that "journalist" Ben Chin is one of the Liberal goons on the OPA payroll. Here's an ad from 2007 that nobody but me saw where he's standing in a hole for some reason....and when I saw it, I had proof that Liberals really can't tell their asses from a hole in the ground! :)
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Debbie Doubletalk's Dismal Developments
Life sure is tough when you're Dalton McGuinty's Health Minister. At first you think, "Oh wow, I'm helping sick people get well and they'll all love me for it!" but nobody ever tells you that sick people are always wanting things. Always complaining about "wait times" this and "ER lineups" that.
The nerve of these ingrates! You're spending all kinds of money that you don't have trying to keep the system from collapsing entirely and they're not happy. Sure, you try and distract them by talking about how it's all Mike Harris' fault and how we don't want "U.S. style healthcare" here, but that doesn't always work, and when you complain to your boss, he's all like, "There's definitely more to be done!"
So all you can do is put on a happy face and bravely soldier on, ignoring the abyss before you. Debbie Doubletalk is a whiz at this, but deluding yourself only gets you so far. This week, we had:
-The ongoing saga of Jill Anzarut, the mom who can't get a breast cancer drug because her tumour is too small. Ombudsman Andre Marin is investigating, which is always bad news for the government. For her part, Debbie Doubletalk said she wouldn't help Anzarut get the drug, then she said she would. I guess health policy can be determined by what shows up on the front page.
-There was some unpleasantness are the Ontario College of Denturists this week- it appears that "improper comments were made by the regulatory board regarding race, religion and sex."
-There was also some unpleasantness with the Niagara Health Service interfering with local hospitals and closing maternity wards. A whole bunch of local mayors, city councillors, and Liberal MPP Kim Craitor (!!!!!) complained to the government.
Debbie Doubletalk ordered an investigation into the College of Denturists, but not into the NHS, suggesting that so long as your local healthcare bureaucrats aren't making overtly racist comments, things are generally OK.
-Meanwhile, just down the 401, enough Winsdorians have gotten mad at Dalton and his collaboration with paid-up Liberal donor/"developer" Lou Vozza that Deb Matthews axed.....someone who isn't Vozza. "No reason was given" for the dismissal, so I guess you can make your own up. Mine would be that someone didn't pay their protection fees this month.
If Deb Matthews doesn't stop this bleeding soon, Dalton will have to give her the boot just like he did with Smitherman and David Caplan, and then we'll have an epidemic of failed Liberal health ministers in Ontario.
The nerve of these ingrates! You're spending all kinds of money that you don't have trying to keep the system from collapsing entirely and they're not happy. Sure, you try and distract them by talking about how it's all Mike Harris' fault and how we don't want "U.S. style healthcare" here, but that doesn't always work, and when you complain to your boss, he's all like, "There's definitely more to be done!"
So all you can do is put on a happy face and bravely soldier on, ignoring the abyss before you. Debbie Doubletalk is a whiz at this, but deluding yourself only gets you so far. This week, we had:
-The ongoing saga of Jill Anzarut, the mom who can't get a breast cancer drug because her tumour is too small. Ombudsman Andre Marin is investigating, which is always bad news for the government. For her part, Debbie Doubletalk said she wouldn't help Anzarut get the drug, then she said she would. I guess health policy can be determined by what shows up on the front page.
-There was some unpleasantness are the Ontario College of Denturists this week- it appears that "improper comments were made by the regulatory board regarding race, religion and sex."
-There was also some unpleasantness with the Niagara Health Service interfering with local hospitals and closing maternity wards. A whole bunch of local mayors, city councillors, and Liberal MPP Kim Craitor (!!!!!) complained to the government.
Debbie Doubletalk ordered an investigation into the College of Denturists, but not into the NHS, suggesting that so long as your local healthcare bureaucrats aren't making overtly racist comments, things are generally OK.
-Meanwhile, just down the 401, enough Winsdorians have gotten mad at Dalton and his collaboration with paid-up Liberal donor/"developer" Lou Vozza that Deb Matthews axed.....someone who isn't Vozza. "No reason was given" for the dismissal, so I guess you can make your own up. Mine would be that someone didn't pay their protection fees this month.
If Deb Matthews doesn't stop this bleeding soon, Dalton will have to give her the boot just like he did with Smitherman and David Caplan, and then we'll have an epidemic of failed Liberal health ministers in Ontario.
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