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I spent a lot of time watching Christy Clark play run-and-hide from David Eby while her wizards did their best to suppress student voting in Point Grey last spring.
And not once do I remember the pipeline thing being a major, or even a significant minor, issue in that specific campaign.
But, according to Ms. Clark herself, as 'revealed' to reporters in scrum this weekend in Kelowna, she sacrificed her own seat to take a principled stand on the matter of the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion.
Seriously.
Here's a snippet from JHunter in The Globe:
...Ms. Clark said she was asked to get off the fence (by her own strategists) and take a stand against the pipeline, because the NDP was jeopardizing her party’s support in coastal ridings – including her own Vancouver-Point Grey seat.
“I was confronted with the decision ... I was asked about it, and my immediate response was, ‘forget it, we are not changing our position on this’,” she said...
{snippety doo-dah}
...On Election Day, the NDP succeeded in defeating Ms. Clark in her own riding, but lost the election.
“In the end, standing firm on my values was more important than winning,” Ms. Clark said...
Gosh.
If that was, indeed, the case maybe Ms. Clark really could see the Iron Lady from her dorm room.
And lest you think the revisionist aspect of the the header to this post is hyperbole there is this closer from Ms. Clark:
...“We were on the right side of history.”
That is all.
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9 comments:
Right side of history? Not very right, but very far Right.
It’s possible, although highly unlikely, for Christy Clark to have been on the perceived right side of an issue; but how could she be on the right “side” of time? There is a past, a present, and a future. How is it possible to be on the right “side” of any??
scotty and Lew--
I reckon this is all about a meme they're trying to build.
Essentially, I think, they are trying to get the herd to bite on the idea that all this codswallop they're pulling to continue the Gordian giveaway of everything is 'hard work' that they have to do for all the 'right reasons' (i.e. 'free enterprise' values, etc.).
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Ross your reckoning is bang on.
Ms Clark and her Liberals count on their MSM "friends" to continue the fabled story as directed. The ill informed public are fed just enough distraction and deflection to allow the political shake down to continue. It could not happen without complicity from so many.
When it finally cracks we will be in much worse shape than we could ever imagine. It will just be a sad history and a long climb back.
Rewriting History, or...
Rerighting History?
"The US Supreme Court has been quietly revising its decisions years after they were issued, altering the law of the land without public notice. The revisions include 'truly substantive changes in factual statements and legal reasoning.'"
"The court almost never notes when a change has been made, much less specifies what it was. And many changes do not seem merely typographical or formal.
Four legal publishers are granted access to “change pages” that show all revisions. Those documents are not made public, and the court refused to provide copies to The New York Times."
Adam Liptak, NY Times
Ah, Ross, you astuteness artfully colours my meme-ory of hurried whispers to "Look busy!" Bossman ain't fooled long, though.
Christy being Christy, totally whopperizes the gambit, not merely aping industriousness in fitted coveralls and roomy hardhat to cover her underperformance, but looking super, too-busy-for-the-ledge-busy to cover her non-performance. So far these purported lucrative LNG contracts aren't worth the air it took to promise the paper to write it on.
SH
Spending a rainy afternoon musing about the way out of this dystopia that used to be Lotus Land...and when was the last time you heard BC called that?
Christy can't play the cute warrior-that-could card forever. Can she?
Should we hope she survives the power lust of her colleagues, so Horgan can run against her?
We know China doesn't want our LNG, so is Ethno Barbie hangin' there hoping for a golden Chinese parachute???
Instead of revising history we could rerun it!
The 2022 Winter Olympics can't seem to find a home.
Vancouver could do a $0 bid. Recycle all those money losing facilities and make some money.
http://deadspin.com/nobody-wants-to-host-the-2022-olympics-1582151092
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2014/06/obamas-war-on-coal-is-one-worth-fighting.html
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