Modeling Journey

Apparently the House of Liberals had a meeting of the caucus (a mere fifteen??!), and were divided on the response to Harper's trinkets-for-all budget:

"Others argued that they should not acquiesce to Mr. Harper by triggering an election that he seems to want; the election should be called on their terms and timing.
"It's a mess," said one MP about the state of play in the caucus over triggering the government's defeat. Some MPs believe that if the campaign team is not ready, after being put on notice as far back as the fall, then the leader should fire them all."

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080227.wbudgetliberals27/BNStory/budget2008/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20080227.wbudgetliberals27

How pathetic can the Liberal MPs get?

I expected Harper to buy off the Bloc to avoid an election.

I was wrong.
Harper took one hard look at the so-called opposition, and it its leader, Dion, and bet that the Liberals were afraid of him and of an election.

And Harper bet right.

Dion caved.

And why?

Because they lacked the guts to table amendments to the Harper budget which would have reflected Liberal values, and, if those amendments did not pass, then vote against Harper's budget, and fight the election on the basis of the Liberal budget.

Simple.

If you really know how to play hardball, and actually fight for your own principles.

What a sad, sad sight: Dion and his MPs with their tails between their legs, with Harper smirking all the way to another year in power ...

Wouldn't it be nice if the Liberal Party actually had a leader with the courage to fight?

Here we go again, the same weak arguments against voting for principles in case that act results in the minority government of the Tories falling, and an election is called.

Harper has run rings around Dion yet again in the past few weeks.

Harper outsnookered Dion and his leadership team on the Afghanistan file. Instead of the Liberal Party setting out a carefully thought, comprehensive alternative to the debacle of a policy now being implemented by the government, Dion allowed Harper to frame the discussion, and meekly fell in line with what Harper wanted: an extension of the mission with some meaningless words about change. Was it Harper's smile that convinced Dion that he had found a new buddy?

Harper outsnookered Dion and the leadership team on the crime bill. Look what happened: Harper challenged Dion - tell the Senate to pass it, or we treat it as a vote of confidence. And Dion? He ducked the fight. Skipped the vote. Then, apparently, quietly passed the word to the Liberals in the Senate to pass the crime bill. The result? Dion looks like a diminutive chicken, afraid of his own shadow.

Now comes the budget, and already Dion is capitulating, using the tired old story about the cost of an election.

Whatever happened to Liberals who had principles, who possessed courage, who were prepared to fight for Canadians?

What a sorry lot we have leading us in Parliament. Perhaps we need another election to wipe out a third of sitting Liberal MPs, so that the party can start all over again, with a new slate of candidates for election to parliament, replacing these timid souls, and a new leader.

It is becoming very hard to hold your head up as a Liberal.

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blog list in the Green Hell

Wow, cool, there is now even possible, the blog posts of the people from the Green Hell presents get ready to serve. Most have their blog links so hang somewhere in the signal anyway, and if I am interested in a user forum, I like to look at me sometimes. But now I get it it were delivered by UPS. Whether I should have put me out? On the other hand, I have not posted anything for ages, not necessarily because I did not want to, but also because for some unknown reason LJ sometimes in HTML format not wanted to post my entries. Technology hates me. And some things from the recent I should not post publicly, if I want to get at the latest trouble with the employer, no matter how anonymous a blog (which he is not, of course, I'm not a child who believes an invented name would be all the security you need ). So my Mum was