Maybe we will see a coalition?
SHAWN MCCARTHY
From Monday's Globe and Mail
December 28, 2008 at 9:39 PM EST
OTTAWA — Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff has given a sharp warning to Prime Minister Stephen Harper: Deliver a budget that opposition parties can support next month or be prepared to lose a vote of confidence.
Though the new Liberal Leader is widely seen as wanting to avoid such a showdown, he said Mr. Harper has failed to demonstrate effective leadership in the face of a worsening economic crisis, and the January budget represents a crucial test.
"I think it is extremely important for Mr. Harper to understand that if he doesn't produce a budget that is in the national interest of Canada he's going to lose a vote of confidence at the end of January," Mr. Ignatieff said in an interview on CTV's Question Period that aired Sunday."He has to understand that, and he has to understand this is a credible threat."
Mr. Ignatieff took over as Liberal chief this month after Stéphane Dion agreed to a widely unpopular coalition with the New Democratic Party - with the promised support of the Bloc Québécois - to unseat the Conservatives. The ensuing backlash forced Mr. Dion to move up his planned departure from May.
James Morton
When it's time for the vote on the budget one of two things will happen, Liberals will support the budget or will vote against it with just enough of them suddenly getting the flu and missing the vote.
ReplyDeleteOR... some people are getting tired of Harper's bullshit and he will in fact lose if he doesn't put forward something constructive.
ReplyDeleteI'd love to see an election in March, "Professor Puffin" would not fair any better than Dion. Then the Liberal knives would come out yet again, it is true that the Liberals eat their own.
ReplyDeleteYes definitely what we need... yet another election because Dithers 2.0 deems that it would be a "genius" strategy... here's an idea... you won the election... that we barely had weeks ago... grow up and start acting like a government.
ReplyDeleteDithers 2.0 would be Iggy, what was that, a coalition being necessary, but not necessarily a coalition, what?
ReplyDeleteThere you have it, the "Emperor of Arrogance, Professor Puffin."
Are there other Iggy flip flops you can come up... maybe a few that aren't a direct result of Harper's blind hypocrisy?
ReplyDeleteEven hardcore Conservatives are starting to wonder what the Conservative party actually stands for at this point... I especially enjoy the everything is great let's all buy stocks one week then the sky is falling and we're all doomed a couple weeks later... so glad we have such a genius leader running our country.
"we're all doomed a couple weeks later..."
ReplyDeleteThat would be Dion, Layton and Duceppe, of course Iggy just tagged along.
The chicken little's are going to look mighty foolish for talking of something worse than the Great Depression when in fact there are already signs that this mainly southern Ontario recession is going to be shorter lived than many have thought.
The auto sector correction will result in fewer jobs, who'd a thunk that?
Rumor has it that the Liberal caucus will be suffering a deficit in the New Year, supposedly fourteen caucus members are preparing to split and sit as independents.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous said...
ReplyDelete"That would be Dion, Layton and Duceppe, of course Iggy just tagged along."
Pretty sure only hardcore Conservative hacks are the only ones buying that line... but good try anyways.
"The chicken little's are going to look mighty foolish for talking of something worse than the Great Depression when in fact there are already signs that this mainly southern Ontario recession is going to be shorter lived than many have thought."
You should write comedy... it's obvious you already have a flair for fiction... fearless leader does appreciate your unwavering blind support. :D
Anonymous said...
ReplyDelete"Rumor has it that the Liberal caucus will be suffering a deficit in the New Year, supposedly fourteen caucus members are preparing to split and sit as independents."
I'm sure Conservative hack trolls would be the first to know if that was anything more than fabricated BS. :D
Ahh, but the comedy is that the makes up the Liberal Party.
ReplyDeleteHow's that fund raising going?
A little bump with Iggy's coronation, er coup, then squat.
Hehehe..........
Anonymous said...
ReplyDelete"Ahh, but the comedy is that the makes up the Liberal Party."
Having children running the Conservative party would be funny... if it wasn't so sad.
"How's that fund raising going?"
"A little bump with Iggy's coronation, er coup, then squat."
You know for a party that rose to power initially because of Liberal arrogance... it will be pretty satisfying to see the fall... who knew the Conservatives could do arrogance better than the Liberal party but nothing else.
Oh Merboy, how wrong you are, the Liberal Party has had the market on arrogance cornered forever and I don't see that changing anytime soon.
ReplyDelete"Professor Puffin is the Emperor of Arrogance"
Anonymous said...
ReplyDelete"Oh Merboy, how wrong you are, the Liberal Party has had the market on arrogance cornered forever and I don't see that changing anytime soon."
The fall of your party is going to be spectacular. :D
Scaredy Anonymous can't even put his name to his dribble without fear of retribution from the Harper police, talking out of turn... Now that you're team's digging up abortion (to squeeze more money out of those widowed secular supporters) I'd say that's a sign that your fundraising has dried up in the shadow of Harper's meltdown. Even CON supporters expected him to govern. Apparently only timid trolls, the twins Baird and Moore, and the 18-newest partisan prize winners from Harper's bag of harpocracy seem to not see the so-called king without his clothes.
ReplyDeleteLiberal Kool Aid drinkers, sheeple, easily duped, look at what they have for a leader, no democracy there, let the elites tell you what to think, no money in the coffers, all bluster and no balls, a pathetic shadow of what once was.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous said...
ReplyDelete"Liberal Kool Aid drinkers, sheeple, easily duped, look at what they have for a leader, no democracy there, let the elites tell you what to think, no money in the coffers, all bluster and no balls, a pathetic shadow of what once was."
Conservatives complaining about democracy... hilarious.