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We might as well jump the gun and get the thread started.

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 28 January 2006 22:59 (twenty years ago)

Just a bit of fun:

Chirac falls for Canadian radio prank

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 28 January 2006 23:00 (twenty years ago)

Harper's first act as PM-elect:

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2006/01/26/1412977-cp.html

"I've been very clear in the campaign that we have significant plans for national defence and for defence of our sovereignty, including Arctic sovereignty. It is the Canadian people we get our mandate from, not the U.S. ambassador."

I know Thermo feels strongly about this issue and felt it should have been a more significant issue in the campaign. Thermo, do you heart Harper now?

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 28 January 2006 23:05 (twenty years ago)

This is the funniest thing I've read all day:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/cpress/20060128/ca_pr_on_na/sask_mp_harper_letter

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Sunday, 29 January 2006 00:44 (twenty years ago)

"I'd rather say crazy things about gays and women than play an active role in governing the nation, thanks."

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Sunday, 29 January 2006 00:45 (twenty years ago)

Thermo, do you heart Harper now?

Ha ha - I was singing Harper's praises Friday night to that crazy Lib keener friend of mine over that issue. Part of it was sincere praise but it was mostly to get him wound up.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 29 January 2006 19:29 (twenty years ago)

I just realized that of the new dippers voted into office this year 8 are women! That makes the percentage of women MPs in the NDP over 40%!

I'm not sure about the numbers for the other parties but I know this was not exactly a great year for women at the polls (possible thanks to the CPC) so I'm glad that there were gains somewhere.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 30 January 2006 17:49 (twenty years ago)

Defections already as Harper is about to be sworn in and announce his cabinet!!!

― He was a beatnik. I was a martian. (Huk-L), Monday, 6 February 2006 16:02 (twenty years ago)

Stockwell Day = Public Safety!

― He was a beatnik. I was a martian. (Huk-L), Monday, 6 February 2006 16:06 (twenty years ago)

OH NO
Vic Toews = Justice!

― He was a beatnik. I was a martian. (Huk-L), Monday, 6 February 2006 16:07 (twenty years ago)

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2006/02/06/harper-ottawa060206.html

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 6 February 2006 16:14 (twenty years ago)

Woah! What a douche-bag move for David Emerson to pull off. Why didn't he just run as a Conservative if he was so ready to jump ship? This is a bigger dick move than Belinda's defection - if i was a resident in the Vancouver Kingsway ridding I would be PISSED (assuming I didn't vote CPC)!

This also tips the scale just enough to give the NDP balance of power!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 6 February 2006 16:21 (twenty years ago)

"I think I'll go home and walk my dog... at least dogs are loyal."
~ Peter McKay; our new Foreign Affairs minister

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 6 February 2006 16:29 (twenty years ago)

from the cbc:
"There were two surprises in Harper's cabinet, including former Liberal cabinet minister David Emerson as international trade minister, and Michael Fortier, Harper's national campaign co-chair. Fortier, who is not elected, will serve as minister of public works and government services."

Well, Mr. "less political appointees" & "bi-elections for party crossovers*" Harper is off to a wonderful start!

*I could be wrong about Harper supporting this one but for now I'm not giving him the benefit of the doubt

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 6 February 2006 17:13 (twenty years ago)

Unelected Cabinet Minister? OH FUCK, big trouble. Major cuts to the public service ahead.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 6 February 2006 17:48 (twenty years ago)

Get elected as a Tory in Quebec -- you have a 50% chance of serving in the cabinet.

Appointing an unelected minister to be the fall guy (with no direct electoral repercussions) once public services are cut is a move of diabolical genius. I don't know whether to punch Harper in the face or buy him a beer (and a bag of popcorn).

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Monday, 6 February 2006 18:20 (twenty years ago)

Fortier will be running in the next election, so if he actually wants to get elected I guess he'll be going easy on cuts, but they can always go back on that, sorta like Harper's gone back on appointing people to the Senate (he claims there'll be elections to the Senate in the future).

― Bryan (Bryan), Monday, 6 February 2006 20:29 (twenty years ago)

He's reneging on that one already too?

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 6 February 2006 20:30 (twenty years ago)

Yup.

― Bryan (Bryan), Monday, 6 February 2006 20:32 (twenty years ago)

At this rate we'll be Kyoto compliant in no time!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 6 February 2006 20:33 (twenty years ago)

"But he has only a temporary [Senate] appointment. He has agreed to step down at the next federal election, to contest the next federal election."

Okay, not quite as bad.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 6 February 2006 20:35 (twenty years ago)

Harper told reporters he was impressed with Emerson as he watched him across the Commons floor. "He's a man of great intelligence, a man with a stellar record in the private sector who is clearly committed to public service. I asked David Emerson to join Canada's new government and he accepted. ... He served Mr. Martin loyally and faithfully. Obviously that service is over."

This is like a Jane Austen romance.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 6 February 2006 20:42 (twenty years ago)

"loyally and faithfully"

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 6 February 2006 20:43 (twenty years ago)

Harper after Belinda's floor crossing:

"We don't go out of our way to romance MPs to get them to cross the floor. Liberals will do anything to win.

"We are trying to create a principled party where people act in a principled way, and obviously we're fairly cautious about encouraging party jumping, because that's the kind of thing that generates cynicism.

"And frankly, when someone jumps, once you're not sure you can trust them the next time, so I would always handle that with an extraordinary degree of caution."

And yet this is how he begins his gov't!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 6 February 2006 20:45 (twenty years ago)

On his first day as PM, Harper has already proven himself to be the kind of power-hungry schmuck it took Chretien nearly a dozen years to develop into (not really).

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 6 February 2006 20:49 (twenty years ago)

I promised myself that I would give him a chance, but on day 1 he has alredy begun to show himself to be what I feared and suspected. You'd think that someone whose entire campaign was based on superior morality would wait at least a week before engaging in such overtly hypocritical behaviour.

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 02:35 (twenty years ago)

I for one welcome our future Liberal Party overlords.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 04:27 (twenty years ago)

Somebody should totally photoshop Harper's face onto Mac Culkin's Home Alone shocker thing. I think Harper MIGHT be Mac Culkin.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 14:45 (twenty years ago)

I kinda wish McKenna would change his mind. he seems like a good guy who has given up trying to play a crooked game. while i understand that, as a personal thing for him, it's such a shame.

― Kim (Kim), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 04:31 (twenty years ago)

Meh. McKenna didn't really thrill me.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 06:12 (twenty years ago)

... for the same reason our new Defense Minister doesn't thrill me.

Back to Emerson, it seems a lot of people are pissed about this. I've seen it mentioned that accepting money from the Liberal Riding Association only to become a Conservative after being elected constitutes fraud!
There's a petition to recall his ass and a Remove Emerson blog has been started by A MEMBER OF HIS OWN PARTY!!!

The era of "Liberal corruption" is at an end an now begins the era* of Conservative Hypocrisy™.

I also couldn't help but notice that Mr. "More Gov't Transparency" Harper has decided to keep the media away from his party's first cabinet meeting. They met at Meech lake - and lets hope they meet with the same success the last douche-bag led group to meet there did.
http://www.filibustercartoons.com/BM.jpg

Maybe I should switch parties and run for the Liberal leadership. The Libs are already looking like a shoe in next election!

In other news I should probably just start a blog!

*where "era" indicates an expected period of some 14 months!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 9 February 2006 16:13 (twenty years ago)

A sign I've been here, if not too long, then a while -- I hear the track off the new Mike Shannon album featuring Moral Undulations and I hear a reference to Stockwell Day and I KNOW WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 19:46 (twenty years ago)

What do you mean "been here"?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 19:47 (twenty years ago)

Here as in ILX and/or Canadian threads.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 19:48 (twenty years ago)

I thought maybe you'd immigrated to get yr beer & popcorn allowance.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 19:50 (twenty years ago)

From the Remove Emerson blog (first post):

Could anyone tell me why Harper could be so stupid as to allow Emerson to cross the floor and to become part of the Cabinet.

If conservative people will not stand up against this then this conservative party will be no different than the Liberals in 5 years.

Five years??? More like five weeks (a lot closer, anyway).

I like how he's conflicted between Tory loyalty and a complete meltdown.

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 20:03 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

Oh, he looks so studly hanging out with the troops.

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Monday, 13 March 2006 15:35 (twenty years ago)

Does the man have a fear of fitting rooms?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 13 March 2006 15:36 (twenty years ago)

What a predictable stunt. Up next: photo ops of our fearless leader tending his ranch.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 13 March 2006 15:41 (twenty years ago)

That sounds like a euphemism for a bikini wax.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 13 March 2006 15:42 (twenty years ago)

But, yeah, total stunt. The good thing about the Gov-Gen position (and why I support the existence of the job, at least nominally), is that the G-G gets to go and shake hands with the troops overseas without politicizing things too much and looking desperate for a public approval rating. I guess that's the same reason I enjoy the idea of an unelected Senate.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 13 March 2006 15:45 (twenty years ago)

Personally, I enjoy the idea of an unexisting senate.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 13 March 2006 16:20 (twenty years ago)

You just make Frank cry:
http://www.oldtimershockey.com/images/players/mahovlich_hall.jpg

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 13 March 2006 16:22 (twenty years ago)

This thread needs more pics.

http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/ap/20060313/capt.f557295710eb4c9cba7ce55ef6f7389a.canada_afghanistan_harper_thx101.jpg?x=297&y=345&sig=5tUVrs72lc6Obxo_kaIeXA--

This is like one of those pictures from when you were four years old, when your mom dressed you in 14 layers, a big puffy winter jacket, and sent you outside to play in the snow.

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Monday, 13 March 2006 18:40 (twenty years ago)

"Darn right," Hillier bellowed when reporters asked if the troops would be glad to see Harper.

I'd be glad to have a chance to bitch-slap the jackoff who would've sent me to Iraq too!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 13 March 2006 19:49 (twenty years ago)

http://eil.com/newgallery/Tom-Petty-I-Wont-Back-Down-154821.jpg

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 02:00 (twenty years ago)

Ashley MacIssac plans to run for the Liberal leadership:

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060321/godfrey_update_060321/20060321?hub=Canada

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 19:27 (twenty years ago)

He was on Canada A.M. this morning saying things like, "I'm not just doing this because I have new album, which you can buy at etc."

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 19:32 (twenty years ago)

"De-elect Emerson" signs have been springing up all over East Van in the last few days, so I've got on on my lawn now. Since the Shapiro thing though, the media will probably assume it's coming to an end. Now Emerson will remain in hiding until it blows over, even if it's months and months.

The best way to get rid of him was probably by embarrasing Harper into asking him to step down but the Shapiro judgement may have taken the wind out of those sails. However the campaign to unseat him is really just getting underway and it is very well organised, since the principle movers are the ones that got Emerson elected in the first place.

― everything, Tuesday, 21 March 2006 20:05 (twenty years ago)

I was just in Vancouver and my biggest regret was not going to visit Emerson's constituency office. And coming back to the frozen tundra of SK.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 20:12 (twenty years ago)

You'll have to keep us posted on how things are going with de-electing emerson over there. it really does seem to me - in Toronto - that the media has forgotten this issue.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 20:18 (twenty years ago)

http://zone.artizans.com/images/previews/GEO102.300.jpg

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 20:20 (twenty years ago)

http://zone.artizans.com/images/previews/DEA1643.300.jpg

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 20:21 (twenty years ago)

I'm just waiting for the cheesey "Ken Dryden Can Save Canada" posters.

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 21:13 (twenty years ago)

A lot of people in Vancouver are REALLY pissed off about the Emerson story, so it's not close to death yet. The Vancouver Sun had it on the cover on Saturday, plus two full pages inside. As I mentioned the campaign is really just gearing up now. I have a friend who is heavily involved in the whole thing and he tells me there are a multitude of lawsuits, appeals, demos etc coming right up. He's organising a couple of benefit/awareness gigs over the next month, probably at venues on Main Street (as it's in Emerson's riding). Anyone know any bands who might wanna play?

― everything, Tuesday, 21 March 2006 22:51 (twenty years ago)

Propaghandi still together?

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 02:06 (twenty years ago)

I might be able to enlist the winks, everything. you should also ask lecoq, since he runs a record label in real life.

― Sym Sym (sym), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 03:04 (twenty years ago)

having worked on ian w's campaign in kingsway, i've been tangentially involved in the anti-emerson furor. it was a real punch in the gut for us to have lost to the man who has become the most hated active politician in the country. he won't be re-elected; the question is whether the libs or NDP will benefit most from the situation.

people are still righteously steamed, and emerson's career is as good as over. even if a new piece is not about the 'situation', his name will be appended by adjectives and terms such as 'embattled', 'on the defensive', 'still fighting controversy', etc. he is incredibly thin-skinned and dismissive when questioned, which has led to a further erosion of sympathy.

― derrick (derrick), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 07:00 (twenty years ago)

hey, do all us vancouver ilxors live in the emerson riding?

― Sym Sym (sym), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 08:30 (twenty years ago)

"David Emerson: call home."
Full points for creativity!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:33 (twenty years ago)

from the google ad on that page:
Gay Conservative Blog
New blog examines conservative issues, but supports gay marriage
gayandright.blogspot.com/

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:43 (twenty years ago)

GAY AND WRONG!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:02 (twenty years ago)

Speaking of which:
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2006/04/04/klein-quitting060404.html

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:15 (twenty years ago)

Constituents air their beefs about Emerson's defection

what an unpleasant mixing of metaphors

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:32 (twenty years ago)

four weeks pass...

Jack Layton says the NDP isn't going to support the budget!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 19:29 (twenty years ago)

link pls

― yuengling participle (rotten03), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 19:33 (twenty years ago)

http://www.ctv.ca/mini/budget2006/

I can't see any mention of it anywhere, but Layton was just on CTV Newsnet or whatever they call it.
Sounds like they're scrapping a lot of the Liberal's GOOD stuff and plunking down a nominal GST cut and beer money for baby owners and acting like they're awesome. They've scrapped the Kelowna Accord, which is very shitty of them of them to do.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 19:37 (twenty years ago)

Some pretty boy from the CTF is jizzing all over himself. Ewwww.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 19:39 (twenty years ago)

GST down, income tax up. WTF

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 19:40 (twenty years ago)

Grits make rare public appearance: http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060430/budget_expectations_060430/20060501?s_name=budget2006&no_ads=

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 19:41 (twenty years ago)

Kyoto's dead too.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 19:44 (twenty years ago)

So, NDP says no, Libs say no, but Bloc says, yeah, sure, go for it!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 19:45 (twenty years ago)

it seems perverse that the Bloc would back this, since they're so lefty. are they hoping the entire govt swings hard to the right so they can paint the federalists as a bunch of Yankee bootlickers?

― yuengling participle (rotten03), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 19:50 (twenty years ago)

I'd imagine the Bloc has something coming to reward them for supporting the Cons. Be afriad.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 20:00 (twenty years ago)

Child care = no, more money for stay at home parents = yes.

The Bloc say that it's not worthwhile for them to try to kill the budget because nobody wants another election right now. Well DUHHHHHHHH. Big whatever to Jack Layton trying to flex the power he doesn't have by acting all macho and saying he won't support the budget. As if his support or lack thereof means JACK SHIT (pun intended).

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 00:30 (twenty years ago)

Calm down, dude.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 00:31 (twenty years ago)

Child care = no, more money for stay at home parents = yes.

I forgot to make my point ... what the hell is with this? This type of thing makes me think that Thermo is right about the Bloc receiving some favours in the near future.

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 00:32 (twenty years ago)

xpost

Compared to what the NDP could have had by working with the Libs, this budget just shows how powerless the NDP is right now compared to last year.

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 00:34 (twenty years ago)

OTMFM

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 00:59 (twenty years ago)

More taxes on smokes and booze! Hooray! Oh, wait, smokes, booze and comic books is all I buy anymore! May I can offset the smokes & booze taxes by enrolling in a youth soccer league (which now gets you a tax credit!).

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 13:54 (twenty years ago)

I thought you quit, dude?

And the answer to the Bloc Conservative lovefest is equalization payments. Equalization payments.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:25 (twenty years ago)

Ah, I quit all the time.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:32 (twenty years ago)

the budget is an obsecenity, it rewards two parent families, where one parent stays at home, it cuts funding for the already agreed on kelwona(sp) accord, any arts fundings, and a whole large chunk of other things, and forces a sizeable tax hike on the people who are the least likely to afford it. it gives a tax cut to big business, it gives more money to the miltary, so that they can continue their colonial adventures, and god knows add new ones to the list, cancer is getting large chunks of cash and something called pandemic preparedness, but mental health, aids, and other less fashionable diseases are going to lose money, and no respect to either cities or provinces, no attempts towardsa renewed federalism...

― anthony easton (anthony), Thursday, 4 May 2006 05:54 (twenty years ago)

Not to defend them, but it wasn't as evil towards cities as we feared.

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 4 May 2006 12:19 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

Oh fuck.
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2006/05/30/fixed-election-dates.html

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 17:16 (twenty years ago)

Oh, okay, it's not quite as bad as I first thought, it still allows for Minority Gov'ts to be defeated, but still, Harper's acting like he has a majority and he doesn't, and he's eventually going to have pay for this bizarre Parliamentary bullying.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 17:22 (twenty years ago)

First the media ban (with a slice of "we'll pick who gets to ask us questions, thank you very much") and now this -- things are getting more Bush-y by the day.

The fact that he's governing as if he has a majority isn't so unexpected (I think we discussed the likelihood of this on another thread) but nobody is interested in having another election anytime soon, so unless parliament gets bitterly divided over some hot-button issue* then we're in for another twelve months of this at least (next years budget, probably).

*Extending the troop mandate in Afghanistan could have been that issue, but the Tories swept that one out of the way rather quickly.

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 18:20 (twenty years ago)

I have really been trying to give Harper and the Conservatives a fair shake, but when I read about him whining last week about the media's liberal bias, I felt completely justified in calling him what he is - a dick. Is it possible that the emerging parallels to what's happening in the US are mere coincidence?

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 00:44 (twenty years ago)

nah

― pauls00 (pauls00), Thursday, 1 June 2006 00:14 (twenty years ago)

http://zone.artizans.com/images/previews/DEW771.300.jpg

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 5 June 2006 14:53 (twenty years ago)

that's a brilliant cartoon, but I feel like I don't fully understand it. The Water Buffalo horns are a nice touch.

― pauls00 (pauls00), Monday, 5 June 2006 15:02 (twenty years ago)

Susan Dewar always depicts Harper as the Grand Poobah of the Water Buffalo Lodge. I'm sure there's a reason, but I don't know what it might be, aside from, oh, a Stone Age worldview.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 5 June 2006 15:05 (twenty years ago)

I gotta admit I've been overlooking the Sun comics section. For, oh, the last 20 years or so.

― pauls00 (pauls00), Monday, 5 June 2006 15:11 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

Thread title off by one year ...?

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 13:06 (seventeen years ago)

god i'm sick of this government.

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 15:09 (seventeen years ago)

So is Stephen Harper! He wants a majority!

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 15:10 (seventeen years ago)

ya - poor stephen, having to cope with that dysfunctional parliament.

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 15:28 (seventeen years ago)

Parliament sucks so hard that they had to search for loopholes in their own election act in order to deal with it. I guess if only the opposition would have played nice then the Tories wouldn't have had to break the law.

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 16:37 (seventeen years ago)

which is too bad because i'm sure he was looking forward to those dysfunctional committees exonerating him of all those election/spending scandals.

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 17:01 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

well this is disgusting

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Thursday, 19 November 2009 17:18 (sixteen years ago)

Strange timing. We've just had byelections and there isn't a federal election in the works. I guess it's all part of gathering ongoing support, but it's a pretty sleazy way of doing it.

― salsa sharkshavin (salsa shark), Thursday, 19 November 2009 18:13 (sixteen years ago)

ya - it's the between election drive-by smears that may or may not have been funded with tax dollars that gets to me. i hardly even care what bile they're printing at this point.

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Saturday, 21 November 2009 00:26 (sixteen years ago)

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