Brooks puts the boot in…
May 11th, 2006
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Here’s the bottom line, though: Jack! hasn’t got the balls to try it. Behind the inflammatory rhetoric and the porn-star moustache, he’s too addicted to sniping consequence-free from the sidelines to throw himself into action. Layton understands with a second-generation politician’s instinct that bleating costs him nothing, whereas going over the top of his political trenches yelling “Follow me!” carries significant risk to his reputation and electoral future.Brooks need to be read in his entirety; but the bottom line is that I don’t think any of the Opposition parties is going to a) bring down the government, b) attempt to pass legislation.
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Smilin’ Jack – who does not approve of violence in Afghanistan or Iraq but is cool with it in Darfur – can introduce legislation or resolutions or votes of confidence. He can hold the Tory feet to the fire. We know he’ll get lots of coverage from a sympathetic media. But he won’t for exactly the reason Brooks cites: no balls.
If the NDP had anyone who looked the least bit like a leader there would be rumblings at Layton’s continuation at the head of the Party. But now that Bob Rae has decided he’s a Liberal who could bell the cat?
You and Babbling Snook need to brush up on how our Parliamentary government works. There is a limit on how many private members bills each MP can introduce and there is a limit on how many make it to a second reading. So with only 29 MPs the NDP has to be selective about which ones it wants to move on. Besides that, there are some issues that must come from the government if they’re to be effective.
It would take, er, one bill…Not that Smilin’ Jack and the chorus of ninnies actually believe a word of what they are saying in Darfur. Imagine the howls which would go up if the Americans actually said, “Screw it, let’s roll.”