The Straussians Are Coming!

PinkoConFollies
4thEditionVille


His recent rhetoric and his calamine smeared face may be pinker than Molly Ringwald in 1986 but Mr. Harper's old school tie is anything but.

And Dave, one of the proprietors of the very fine 'Galloping Beaver', has the class lists to prove it:

Harper studied under Straussist neo-cons at the University of Calgary, then worked with them to develop the policies and the framework for the Reform Party. When Harper made a bid for the leadership of the Alliance Party some of the U of C neo-cons jumped in as advisors. When the 2004 federal election came about, they were right there, led by the American born, American educated and Republican party approved, Tom Flanagan.

In 1996 a paper out of the Johns Hopkins' School of Advanced International Studies in Washington DC named the political science department at U of C: The Calgary School: The New Motor of Canadian Political Thought, and Tom Flanagan had become their informal leader.

Flanagan has extreme political views, to say the least. He has worked tirelessly against the claims of aboriginal Canadians and has made clear his view that North American aboriginals should be assimilated and their culture entirely eliminated. It also goes that his beliefs extend beyond First Nations into other culturally diverse groups. Far from accepting the Canadian cultural mosaic in favour of the American "melting-pot", Flanagan preaches a cultural smelter. As tons of copper concentrate are placed under pressure to produce a few ounces of gold, Flanagan promotes the idea that diverse cultures would be pressured to adhere to a narrow political dogma, dispense with their ethnicity, conform to a single religious standard and accept the leadership of the purest of the smelted ore. In other words, a society dominated by an elite group which is white, heterosexual, christian, english-speaking and male. Those who do not accept this view need not leave the slag heap and will have their rights, freedoms and eventually their franchise eliminated over time. Flanagan, an adherent of the Bush style of governing, was Harper's campaign director in 2004 and he is still one of Harper's closest political advisors. Rick Anderson, who worked with both Harper and Flanagan in the Reform Party described them as, "... intellectual soulmates, philosophical soulmates."


And that's just the front row. Dave's post is pure gold for anyone who needs amunition when arguing with friends and uninfluencable uncles about Mr. Harper's real intentions.

Remember.

Vote Left and Vote Often.

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Get Thee Behind The Curtain.....

IHeartStockwell
AllYourAlliancesAreMineVille

.......Puppetmaster

On Zeisman - The Candidate:

It was revealed late yesterday that B.C. Tory candidate Derek Zeisman has been charged with trying to smuggle a car and 112 containers of alcohol into Canada. Harper announced that Zeisman, if elected, will not be allowed to sit as a Conservative MP. He added that it's "too late in the campaign legally for me to withdraw the candidate or change the candidate."



On Zeisman - The Puppetmaster:

Derek Zeisman will remain the Tory candidate in the riding of British Columbia Southern Interior, said party campaign chairman John Reynolds, who described the charges as "administrative" in nature.


Is somebody's nose starting to grow under all that calamine?

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Little Stephen's Ideological Fashion Sense

PinkoConFollies
3rdEditionVille


While the calamine lotion-assisted pinkofication of Mr. Harper and the CPC continues unabated, it appears that the braintrust is not interested in mixing the couleur Rose with Vert.

How do we know this?

Well, as Sean Holman informs us:

"Of course, advocating offshore development is consistent with past Tory policy. During the 2004 election, The Vancouver Sun's Kim Pemberton noted the party's "environment critic Bob Mills said as long as the environmental and safety concerns were met, the Conservatives would allow offshore drilling to commence if elected."


Remember, this election is about a whole lot more than soldiers running wild on Yonge St or whether it's David Emerson or Bob Mills that gets to give Our Gord the go ahead to start drilling in Haida Gwaii.

Vote Left.

Vote Often*



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* Also known as: call all your friends and do your best to influence your uncles (and aunties, and cousins, and offspring, and classmates, and co-workers, and favorite pizza delivery girls).

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Finally

Mr.Holman'sNext
MainChanceVille


Trial date set for former government aides
Last updated Jan 12 2006 01:02 PM PST
CBC News

A trial date has been set for the three B.C. Liberal political appointees charged in connection with the police raids on the B.C. legislature more than two years ago.

David Basi, his brother-in-law Robert Virk and his cousin Aneal Basi will go on trial on April 24. They have chosen to be tried by judge alone.

David Basi, his brother-in-law Robert Virk and his cousin Aneal Basi will go on trial on April 24. They have chosen to be tried by judge alone. On Dec. 28, 2003 the RCMP and Victoria police raided the legislative offices of David Basi and Virk.


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Thanks to Auntie Bertha

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The Ad We Would Really Like To See

SCTVRedux?
MartiniVille

You've got wonder - is Guy Caballero heading up that bad seed Second Unit that is producing those 'never-to-see-the-light-of-day' attack ads for the Big Red Machine?

Because how else can you explain that 1979 era Marching Song* hitpiece that was accidentally leaked to at least four score and ten newsrooms yesterday.

Of course, we wish to go on the record right here and now by saying that both the Ad and its Theme were utterly despicable.

Soldiers roaming the streets of Canadian cities?

Why, that's just flat-out crazy.

Unless, of course, Mr. Harper has been studying Mel Lastman's little red 905 area code Playbook.

But the ad we really want to see is the one that Mr. Caballero's longtime sidekick-in-the-head Count Floyd has reportedly been working on.

You know, the one where a huge phalynx of Bobby Duvall look-a-likes roam the streets of T.O's Annex neighborhood as zombie Commanders from Dame Maggie's dystopian Masterpiece.

To quote the Count, that would be......'Scaaaaarrrry, Really Scary!'

Which reminds us, where the heckfire is Dr. Tongue when you need him?

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*With apologies to the Pointed Sticks

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PinkoCon Follies, Vol II

CalamineIsThyName
GoLeftYoungConservativeVille


In our last post we wondered if any of the far rightsiders were getting upset about the blatant self-pinkoficication of the CPC.

Well, while we haven't yet found them screaming for Mr. Harper to wipe the calamine lotion from around his eyes, it does appear that the folks over at the home of the Buckshot Bloviators are at least a little bit concerned for one who walks among them that might actually believe in all of that 'do unto others' type stuff:

Socially conservative voters in the B.C. riding of Port Moody-Coquitlam-Port Coquitlam are facing an interesting dilemma in the current election. The question: Should they vote for the Conservative party when they can’t stomach the Conservative candidate?

The question arises because incumbent Conservative MP James Moore, an otherwise stellar parliamentarian, notoriously voted in favour of same-sex marriage in the House, and has also subsequently expressed pro-choice-type views. Both these stances came as unpleasant surprises to Moore’s many so-con supporters, who had earlier been led to believe that Moore was just as so-con as his Reform predecessor in the riding, Sharon Hayes.


Heckfire, Mr. Moore must be one of those, ummmmm, what did they used to be called, pre-PM*?

Oh, yeah - now I remember.

Progressive conservatives.

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*Peter MacKay

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Is Stephen Harper A Commie Pinko?

NeverMindHisBollocks
HereComeTheFreepPistols


Given that he originates from the deeply conservative Canadian Alliance branch of the Conservative Party, Mr. Harper has made enormous bounds in shifting his statements to the left....

(snip)

"I would never compromise public health insurance in the country because it is the only system that most Canadian families, including my own family, have ever used, " he (Harper) said during an extraordinary speech to the Fraser Institute last year, during which he denounced the right-wing think-tank's policy of two-tiered medicine...

(snip)

He (Harper) promised not to let abortion become a legal matter again. He promised a public-transit tax credit, and "action to ensure clean air, land and water." He promised government spending on child care - an idea that was put on the agenda not by the Liberals, but by Mr. Layton's NDP.

Doug Saunders, The Globe and Mail, F1, Jan07, 2006
(behind the subscription wailing wall)

Now of course it's all bollocks. For example, the money for childcare is actually designed in large part to help a certain type of patriarchal husband keep his housebound wife barefoot and fancy-free.

But that's not what interests me at the moment.

No.

What really interests me is how the hardboiled right-sided Freepers of the Dominion, Buckshot Bloviators and Miniature Mammal Mortality Makers are taking all this self-induced pinkofication from their fearless leader.

Might even have to go have a look to find out.

Hope I make it back alive.

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Save-On-Sickness

CorportationsAreNotUs
HealthCareVille

It's Saturday morning in Lotusland and I'm sitting in the waiting room of Vancouver's Children's Hospital with my two kids.

Waiting.

Waiting for an I.V. bolus of antibiotics to deal with a pneumonia in the superior lobe of the right lung of the oldest kid and a chest X-ray for the youngest kid because she's started to wheeze too.

I don't notice the huge plaque on the wall until I look up from the oldest kid's math homework (she's in Grade 7; she's missed four days of school and because of all this Fraser Institute-sponsored standardized test crap she's more freaked out about that than the sickness).

Anyway, I'm tired and irritable when I finally notice the big 'Save-On-Foods' sign on the wall which is something, I'm pretty certain, that Gordon Campbell and Little Stephen love in a pseudo-bastardized P3 sort of way.

But I also have a lot of time on my hands, so when the math is finally done I start adding things up trying to figure out what Jimmy Pattison had to pay for to get that plaque. Did he have to pay for the decorating? Did he have to pay for the toys? Did he have to pay for the comfy chairs? Did he have to pay for the TV with the built in DVD player?

I dunno, but the most I can see in that well-appointed waiting room, in terms of a cash money layout, is $50K, or maybe even $100K, tops.

Which sounds like a lot, and it is.

Until you start comparing.

Comparing things like the cost of the bricks and mortar of the hospital itself, and the equipment, and the doctors, and the nurses, and the support staff, and the medicine, and even, grudgingly, the administrators.

Those, of course, cost millions and millions of dollars.

And Save-On-Foods didn't pay for any of that.

We did.

All of us.

And for that we didn't get no stinking plaques.... or free publicity.... or tax breaks.

Which is fine with me, as long as those Administrators and the Political Puppetmasters who appoint them remember that we, the people, are not 'clients' of the hospital.

We are the owners of the thing.

And they better not forget it.

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Heroism Defined

AmericanExceptionalism
TheRealThingVille


From the BBC*:

Hugh Thompson Jnr, a former US military helicopter pilot who helped stop one of the most infamous massacres of the Vietnam War has died, aged 62.

Mr Thompson and his crew came upon US troops killing civilians at the village of My Lai on 16 March 1968.

He put his helicopter down between the soldiers and villagers, ordering his men to shoot their fellow Americans if they attacked the civilians.

"There was no way I could turn my back on them," he later said of the victims.

And if were still alive, and if he were to run for public office today on the wrong side.....would they Swift Boat him too?


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*Via Gilliard

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Cluff Dandy To The Rescue

SavingOurPaul
OneFluffPieceAtATimeVille

Glad to see that we are no longer the only ones paying attention to the dastardly ways of the wily, but no longer puffy, one*.

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*You have to scroll down a little to get to the Cluffie bit.

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Dodging the MSM's DDD*

RealAnalysis
BigFishVille

Want a site where you can actually get stuff you don't already know on the Federal Election?

You can find it at the Tyee's Election Central.

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*DoggieDooDoo

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The Three Stooges

PushYouPullMe
WeWillElectTheeVille


So, Allan Gregg has decided that Little Stephen is actually Big Mo.

The survey by the Strategic Counsel puts Mr. Harper's party in the lead over the Liberals by two percentage points for the first time in this campaign and indicates he also has a huge lead, even in Quebec, when voters are asked who has the momentum going into the Jan. 23 election.

"This is really interesting that this is occurring right on the eve of the debate," said Allan Gregg, chairman of the Strategic Counsel, which conducted the poll for The Globe and Mail and CTV News.

You got that?

Forget who people actually say they are going to vote for because Mr. Gregg, who we see as Larry in this scenario, doesn't want anything to do with that.

After all, actual voting preferences are essentially well within the margin of error of the poll.

Instead, Larry decides to make sweeping conclusions based on who voters tell him has the 'momentum', as if that means anything at all.

Which it doesn't.

Unless, of course, it gets published on the front page of the nation's so-called paper of record where it can entice hordes media dingbats to hop on the Whirlitzer of the Push Poll.

And for that we can only conclude that Globe and (nolongerEmpire)Mail editor Edward Greenspon gets to be Curly.


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We out here in Left Coast Canuckistan are particularly sensitive to this kind of thing given the stunt was that was pulled on us by two-thirds of the Stooges last spring when we were told the BC LINO (Liberal In Name Only) Party had a non-existent 13 point lead just days before the Provincial election.

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For Real This Time?

GrindingSlowly
WheelsOfJusticeVille

Who said the BC Liberals could get out of a holiday season unscathed:

The case that rocked British Columbia's political landscape two years ago is expected to finally come to trial early in the new year.

A trial date for former provincial Liberal government employees Dave Basi, Bob Virk and Aneal Basi will likely be set during an afternoon session Jan. 6 before B.C. Supreme Court Associate Chief Justice Patrick Dohm in Vancouver.

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Big question, as asked by Greg at Sinister Thoughts (and beyond) is - how much of this will shake, not stir, the Martinis prior to Jan. 23rd.

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Negativeland

AllOurNegatives
AreYoursVille


Remember that 'leaked' Email from John Reynolds and Michael Fortier to the base telling them how positive the national CPC campaign was, is, and always will be.

Well, as we suspected, it looks like the Reform/Alliance folks running the campaign have decided they must hide their real strategy from even from the faithful, particularly those who still see themselves as progressive conservatives, lest they decide to jump ship back into the red lifeboat.

As evidence we offer up the fact that even the Globe and Mail appears to have caught on to the real strategy:

OTTAWA -- The Conservatives plan to air a negative television ad, warning that Paul Martin's Liberals are preparing to unleash a negative campaign, as the Tories aim to forestall attacks against their own leader.

In the 2004 election campaign, the Liberals leaned heavily on attacks that accused Conservative Leader Stephen Harper and his party of harbouring a hidden agenda of right-wing social policies. Now, the Conservatives are aiming to use that politically risky tactic leading up to the Jan. 23 vote.

They have been "preconditioning" reporters by repeatedly warning of Liberal plans to attack the Conservatives, in the hopes that Canadians will perceive attack ads as negative and reject them.

Hmmmmmm......

Preconditioning.

Where have we heard that term before?

Is it possible, Mr. Kander's recent comments to the contrary, that we are all (Pavlov's) dogs now?

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They're Back!

SurpriseSurprise
FreeperNorthVille


Well, what do you know.

After a timely time-out while the forced de-Stampification took place, the no-longer Psycho-assisted Freepers of the Dominion are back in business.

Which is not necessarily a bad thing.

After all, there may be no better place for voters to see the true face of Canadian (not-so-progressive) Conservatism if they so choose.

One of our favorite stops at the site is the bundled boatload of prominent 'opinion' links to the distinctly south-sided 'Conservative Voice'.

Where you can find great stuff like this.



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