Jay Currie

The glorious Harper government, fresh from two months of deep thought, put out a Speech from the Throne today. Restraining government spending and such like. But the obvious headline item is making Oh Canada gender neutral. Let’s review, here are the official lyrics minus, of course the ba,ba,ba,bum which makes Oh Canada to only self-instrumentalizing [...]

If a writ were dropped right now, Harper is pretty much finished and I think that he knows it. If he retains power, it will only be because Ignatieff affirmatively goes about losing, and no one is dumb enough to plan a campaign around that possibility. Sure, it worked with Stephane Dion, but no one [...]

The Tiger, were he a CPC supporter, would be worried by the latest EKOS poll

Poor Harper. He ignored the socons, he scorned the speechers, abandoned the libertarians so now all he has left are the “Liberals are Satan” partisans. Now, frankly, Dion was more like a plush toy than Satan so the gambit worked. But [...]

My complaint is not just that the Conservatives have abandoned conservatism themselves — which is annoying to me mostly because I believe there should be a conservative alternative, even if I don’t necessarily subscribe to it. But they’ve closed off the possibility of anyone else applying it either. They haven’t moved the middle to them, [...]

Harper added, referring to recent job losses: “We’re not going to get blown off track every time there is some bad news”. Off track? As if you were actually on a track? Like a train? Trains don’t randomly dart left, right, backwards and directly up according to the alignment of the [...]

“There is fear in the land,” said Ignatieff, who has been holding consultations across the country in advance of the return of Parliament on Jan. 26. the star

The elderly will remember Keith Spicer’s 1991 Report following the collapse of the Meech Lake Accord which, if memory serves, began “There is anger in the land.”

That anger, [...]

Wandering around the righty blogosphere the anger and the disappointment with Harper are palpable.

Well, enough moaning…time for Plan-B

To become a party one must have the following:
Party Name: Plan-B
Leader: Me for purposes of Registration – we’ll elect someone more suitable later
Office: My House for the moment;
Three officers: I am taking volunteers. Ideally one should live in [...]

I tried to post this over at the Shotgun but there is some foul up. xid indeed:

I want to sit with this until Monday.

My immediate reaction is to call PMSH a dickhead and move on. But the reality is, as commentors above have pointed out, the dickhead is a politician.

The fear/greed matrix inside politician’s head [...]

I’d say Harper is governing like a Liberal – except that, the last time they were in power, the Liberals eliminated the deficit. (Sorry, folks, but the truth hurts.) daimnation!

Bye-bye base.

Personally, if it is a choice between the bozo and the Count I am really torn. Both are good on security, both are fine on [...]

I’ve had a busy day and not much time to write about Rae’s withdrawal and the putative ascension of Micheal Ignatieff to the Liberal leadership. While I feel deprived of the happy spectacle of the Liberals self destructing, I am delighted that Iggy took the prize.

Partially because I rather like the man. I like his [...]

Real Tory.

That could be the name. Or something smarter. But, for the moment let’s go with Real Tory, RT for short.

Real Tory would be a Canadian political party designed to lose. But, in losing it would destroy any hope the CPC had of a majority government. The basic strategy is outlined here.

Real Tory is, [...]

It is possible that, with his enhanced minority, Stephen Harper, will actually make the attempt to govern like a Conservative. We’ll have to see.

Here’s the litmus test: the repeal of s. 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act.

But let’s say he doesn’t. Let’s say he is too afraid of the Lying Jackal and the liberal [...]

It looks as if Steve is going to take the walk and ask for an election.

I like elections. They clear the air. They bring issues into focus. They allow people to actually express their views.

In a technical sense this election is about 50 ridings mainly in Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia. These are the “battlegrounds” [...]

Looks like Steve is going to pull the plug possibly as early as Sunday. Mike Brock who has decent “inside the CPC” wiring was kind enough to have me co-host the Al and Mike show (link up later) and told me that the CPC is thinking of running on two themes:

The CPC is the best [...]

The arrival of the RCMP in escort of Elections Canada at the CPC headquarters likely looking for evidence of sharp practice in the last election has, as the pros say, bad optics.

Which would be of no moment were the CPC in some sense in charge in Ottawa. Instead, the CPC governs by the grace of [...]