Wednesday, May 06, 2020

Responding To COVID-19...The Godfather Of Modern Canadian Conservatism Weighs In.

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Earlier today, in noting Andrew Scheer's call to start reducing CREB benefits to ensure that those folks who need our help most don't choose not to work, we suggested that CanuckistanMikitaians might be living in a very different dog-eat-dog Trump-style world at the moment if Mr. Scheer  had prevailed in 2018.

In response, an Anon-O-Mouse in the comment threads posited the possibility that Scheer's Conservatives would have behaved just like Trudeau's Liberals to the COVID-19 crisis from a substantive point of view and that his harping now was little more than political grandstanding.

All of which had me reconsidering my thinking until...

The good Mr. Scheer's political godfather weighed in:



Gosh.

Is it any wonder that it was imperative to change the lyric to this old Uncle Neil classic a little so as to include a verse focused on the good Mr. Manning?




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Subheader?....This.
And why note the bringing of the good Mr. Flannagan into the musical mix, above?.....Well, dustbins of history and all that I reckon.


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3 comments:

e.a.f. said...

I saw that on the news. first wondered who is that old idiot. then I realized it was presto, listened for a few sentences and turned it off. omg, he still hasn't given up on his b.s.

People want to go back to work, they just can't without risking their health, the health of their families, and the health of the community at large.

Presto isn't relevant any more. Don't know why the t.v. station was giving him air time, but it was a waste of time. or as one might say, it was a load of crap. presto and those right wingers all seem to thing working people are lazy and don't want to work. Well the ones who don't want to work or have never held a real job are usually the leaders of the conservative party and things along that line.

Guess presto and scheer think its o.k. for children to go hungry. oh, right they're those religious freaks and some of them believe the "sins of the fathers are visited upon their children". oh, right the children should go hungry because the parents can;t work. those religious freaks never seem to understand that section of the bible which has jesus saying, "let the children come unto me".

for an atheist I still do remember a lot of that stuff. pisses off a number of those religious freaks.

Thankfully we have Trudeau and his trustee side kick, The Deputy P.M.

Anonymous said...

C'mon Ross. Are calling me a mouse? My name is Gord if that is important.

Look, it's one thing to stand on the sidelines and bleat, but it's another thing to make the hard decisions to send people to their death. Trump can do it because he is a sociopath. Manning might be too. But Scheer? He's just weak.

RossK said...

Thanks eaf--

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Gord--

Sorry about that. Anon-O-Mouse is an old term of endearment coined by an old friend of ours 'BC Mary' who wrote extensively on the BC Rail sale/not sale. She had an army of anonymous commenters, some of whom were clearly on the inside, who provided all kinds of interesting info and points of view.

Anyway....Interesting perspective on the difference between Mr. Manning and Scheer...What if, instead, Mr. Harper had been in charge?


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