I am sure pundits will be giving many analysis of last night’s election as to who won, who lost and what went wrong. In my estimation all the leaders are losers. Yes, there was no winner last night.
Harper took a big gamble to win a majority, indifferent to what was happening to the country. He lost and got another minority. If he would have waited and handled economy well, he might have had better chance in 2009 on the fixed date.
Dion’s dream to become Prime Minister did not work. He could not deliver a knock out punch when Harper was at his weakest, stock markets were in disarray and the economy headed for a major downturn. He ended up with reduced Official Opposition numbers.
Jack Layton aimed for the Prime Minister’s job but could not even come up with Official Opposition title. He fell short of his expectations although he picked up a few seats.
Gille Duceppe could not quite pull off a major upset in Quebec but he did achieve his objective of denying Harper his majority. Canadians should be thankful to Duceppe. Imagine a Harper majority and full-fledged CON agenda.
Elizabeth May of course could not garnish a single seat in the House of Commons. She would have done better in London Ontario or in British Columbia.
However, the biggest loser in all this was the Canadian public. Harper broke his own fixed date election law to impose the election. All Canadians got was a major loss of time and resources with the same results we had before the election. Harper should have been looking after the economy, but instead his ego to have a majority got the better of him and he lost his credibility in the process.
I think both CONS and Libs need a new leader. CONS need a leader who cares about Canada and not about himself alone. Libs need a leader who not only cares about Canada but also can win. It is hard to predict the future, but both these leaders should head for the exit door.
I can't laugh today at all. In fact a smile hasn't arrived on my lips until now. Thanks for the smile with your Harper tinman - & I hope to see a lot more Steve bashing in the future. Your insights are always excellent, LeDaro!
ReplyDeletePenlan, I am glad that I can make you smile.
ReplyDeleteIt is sad situation though. I still like Dion but he is too decent a person to fight back Harper’s Rovian tactics. A street fighter was needed to deal with Harper – like Jean Chretien.
I was very saddened last night once the media coverage moved from Atlantic Canada to Quebec and Ontario. It was apparent that Liberals were not going to make it. Harper is still vulnerable if Liberals can get a strong leader. It is a minority government and can be brought down any time.
Daro . . . for all intensive purposes Harper has a Virtual Majority . . . for at least the next couple of years!!!
ReplyDeleteThe LPC will now eat their leader and of course are too broke to contest another election any time soon.
And next spring you get to choose between . . . . Two failed NDP Premiers, another Professor and a couple of Lawyers . . . should be fun!!!
Oldschool, virtual majority is virtual reality as it is not reality – like cyberspace reality. Remember Joe Clark. He was short of 5 seats as he had 150 seats and wanted to govern as if he had a majority. He was gone in 6 months to never recover again. His PC party is gone too. CPC and Harper may be headed for a similar fate.
ReplyDeleteThe LPC had sleezy Pierre back then . . . he made promises, broke them and taxed us to death.
ReplyDeleteToday the LPC is rudderless.
Daro . . . why do you suppose it is that when the PC party pissed off the voters, lied to them and taxed them . . . the VOTERS ABOANDONED THEM.
But . . . when the LPC lied to the voters, taxed them to death and then stole from them . . . they remained LOYAL FOLLOWERS? Seems to be a large credibility gap here. Could it be that the LPC followes have still not figured it out? Once again proving that Liberalism is a mental disorder!!!
Oldschool, it is LeDaro and not Daro. You typify Cons’ rudeness. As Oldschool implies you’re stuck in some past foolishness. Had there been not a Trudeau there would have not been the Canada we know it today. He kept the country together. Any other leader would have not been able to handle it.
ReplyDeleteHarper showed his moral mettle or lack of it to offer a dying man $1 million insurance bribe to buy his vote. Then of course there is the Bernier a very incompetent Foreign Affairs minister. Just few examples. In Chretien government people knew the names of all the ministers. Harper keeps his people muzzled all the time that other than Flaherty, Bernier and one or two more no one knows their names. That shows the calibre of his cabinet and caucus.
Daro . . . Trudean rolled out the army for 8 terrorists . . . the guy was a marxist despot!!!
ReplyDeleteMillion dollar insurance policy . . . where would you buy such a policy on a terminally ill person??? Let me know!!!
Asked a friend who managed a large insurance company . . . he's still laughing . . . said he could fix me up for $1.2 million!!!
Only a very stupid person would believe in such nonsense.
More Good News . . .
ReplyDeleteGlobal warming is sub-prime science, sub-prime economics, and sub-prime politics’ - Global Warming’s boom days are surely coming to an end’
By UK Professor Emeritus of Biogeography Philip Stott of the University of London
Excerpt: With a world likely to cool during the next decade, with a world economy set in austere mode, and with the new politics of China, India, Brazil, and the rest, Big Global Warming’s boom days are surely coming to an end. “‘Global warming’ is sub-prime science, sub-prime economics, and sub-prime politics, and it could well go down with the sub-prime mortgage.”
UK Emissions: Facts And Politics
- September 25, 2008
Excerpt: We can draw three extremely telling conclusions from this data:(a)The Kyoto Protocol has been a singular failure if its aim was to curb the rise in world fossil fuel carbon dioxide emissions;(b)The UK, despite much rhetoric, has made virtually no dent in its own total emissions figure since 1980, simply altering the mix of the fossil fuels employed; and,(c) At 149 million metric tons of carbon in 2005, the UK now accounts for a mere 1.87% of world emissions. UK politicians thus need to take on board the following simple truths:(a)At a mere 1.87% of world emissions, a share that is falling rapidly with the economic growth of China, India, Brazil, and the other developing countries, whatever we do in the UK will have no measurable or predictable effect on climate change whatsoever, even if you accept ‘global warming’ theory;(b)In any case, without new nuclear power stations providing a generating capacity of at least 30%, there will be no effective cut in emissions.These are the facts. And the politics? The British public has to be told these facts before we waste billions on nonsensical ‘Green’ utopias. In particular, the Conservative Party must get real over energy policy.
Denmark, Norway Grapple with Growing CO2
- September 25, 2008
Excerpt: Even as Scandinavian leaders have assumed a prominent role in international efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions and combat climate change, both Norway and Denmark have failed to reduce their own emissions. (IPS)
A CHANGED CLIMATE: EUROPE GOES COLD ON CLIMATE HYPE
-The Economist - October 2, 2008
Excerpt: Just 18 months ago the European Union promised to save the world from climate change. The heroic mood is gone now. In March 2007 Angela Merkel, the German chancellor and chairman of the summit, was a green champion. Today she sounds like a lobbyist for German business, listing the industries that must be shielded from the full costs of her package. In truth, almost every country has found reasons why the climate-change promises may be impossible to meet in their current form.
Oldman, you're doing cut-and-paste which I am not going to read or respond.
ReplyDeleteSeeing as your name cannot be respected by a commenter I have something to say.
ReplyDeleteOl Shoo - fly away back to your dung pile. Get a life.
Thank you, Penlan. He does belong in a dung pile.
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