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Friday, 05 December 2008

Axis of equine patooties: Years ago there was a joke making the rounds speculating as to the title of the most boring book ever written. The winner: “Canada, Our Northern Neighbour.” Sure, that merited a hearty har-dee-har in days past, but given recent tumultuous events, Canada ain’t such a snore anymore. Here’s Mark Steyn giving Hugh Hewitt a snapshot of the slapstick:

Well, what happened is that they had an election six weeks ago. And Stephen Harper’s conservative party was returned to power with an increased minority. That’s to say they don’t have a majority of the seats in the House of Commons, but they were the biggest party. So by convention, the governor general, who is the vice regal eminence who represents the Queen, invited the leader of the largest party to form the government. Now six weeks later, there’s been a backroom deal between the liberals, who are sort of the soft left party, the New Democratic Party, who are the hard left party, the socialists, and the Bloc Québécois, who are the secessionist party, to in effect remove the government from the Tory Party, and install themselves as what I called a pantomime horse comprised of three rear ends, which is the problem here. I mean, you’ve got an incoherent, soft left, socialist, secessionist coalition that would be attempting to run the country, and would do very little, actually, except divert billions of dollars in patronage appointments to their own particular obsessions.  

I’d say that about sums it up. My prediction: the plot will end up backfiring—big time—and Stephen Harper will be returned with a majority government by ordinary Canadians disgusted by the horse’s arses and their unbridled lust for power.

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