LOL

Harper really can’t undo much of that. Maybe it will be a quiet few months at least as he organizes our new rural overlords and teaches them that a moral majority means a majority that is made up of 36.7% of something.
genx@40

The comments have been buzzing with the discussion of what Harper’s downtown free victory will mean. (And, yes, there is a downtown in Edmonton and Calgary but this is a fact unknown in the real downtowns of the nation. Places which include Annexes.)

I don’t think it means much. I think for the moment the Tories are going to stick with the very pragmatic, minimalist agenda which they enuciated during the campaign. Basically tick off the promises they made against the legislation they pass. (My friend Kevin Grace writing at VDARE (and my liberal friends are advised not to click there else they read things they really do not want to hear) suggests otherwise,

Stephen Harper remains an enigma. He has been bedevilled in two consecutive elections by charges he harbors a “hidden agenda.” It is easy enough to dismiss this as scaremongering, but I can say with all honesty (and I have studied the man extensively for a decade) that I have absolutely no idea of what his agenda really is. Harper is a man of many surprises. It would be foolish to suppose his trick bag is empty.
kmg at vdare

The CPC has a mandate to prove it is worthy of a real mandate. Rural overlordship or the triumph of the socons will pretty much ensure an election within 18 months in which the CPC will not win a majority. But a steady drive towards reducing the size and scope of the federal government with a return of money first to citizens and then to the provinces, could easily set Harper on the road to a couple of decades in office.

Yes, Flea, Harper will have to navigate betwixt the Scylla and Charybdis of the theocons and the libertarians; but if Grace and I can enjoy drinking beer and throwing thngs at his television set whenever Lloyd “I interviewed Sir John A.” Robertson said something extra fatuous, there is certainly hope for the CPC. Of course the navigation will not be without its cost, after all, Odysseus lost six crewmen as he sail between the monsters. For Harper it will come down to the question of which six and when.

Written by jay on January 26th, 2006 with 11 comments.
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