Things are getting a mite strange in Liberalville

If we judge someone by the friends and enemies they make, then this list from Canoe about the special interest wacko groups who are martialling forces to make a last stand against the Tory wave is telling. By my humble estimation Stephen Harper must be a truly oustanding person to have this axis aligned against him.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/CanadaVotes/TopPhoto/2006/01/17/1399919-cp.html

-The Canadian Climate Coalition complained that the Tories were the only party that refused to respond to a questionnaire on the Kyoto Protocol, and accused Harper of moving Canada "into the same camp as U.S. President George W. Bush."
-The Council of Canadians expressed concern about recent comments by Conservative MP James Lunney favouring bulk exports of Canadian water, and called on Harper to clarify his position on the issue.
-Sixty-six economists signed a joint statement warning that the tax breaks being offered by the major parties would leave a huge deficit in social services and hurt the poor. They took special aim at the Conservative proposal to eliminate taxes on reinvested capital gains, saying it would "deliver very large tax savings to a tiny group of high-income Canadians."
-Phil Fontaine, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, said he's not satisfied by recent comments by Harper that the party supports the principles of the Kelowna native deal, but not the final agreement and dollar amount. "Any suggestion that one supports the objectives and the targets but not the approximately $5 billion allocated to these targets is of great concern to us because we won't be able to meet the targets without money," he said.
-The gay-rights group Egale warned: "Stephen Harper goes ahead with his plan to reopen the divisive equal marriage debate, it will lead Canada into a legal swamp." On Monday, 104 law professors wrote an open letter to Harper saying that his plan to reopen the equal marriage debate would lead to "legal confusion, a lack of uniformity, and unnecessary, protracted and costly litigation."

With enemies like this who needs friends?

But............................


It gets me to thinking.............................................(picture a fade to daydream effect here)


Welcome to the Twilight Zone suckers…….errrr, my fellow Canadians. No interest is too special, no demographic is too elusive as we enter the alpenglow of the Liberal sunset. As PMPM goes into full conniption mode and searches for an audience, any audience, that is fundamentally concerned about the deep difference in values about the values which only the Liberals value on a level with Canadian’s values……….at a fundamental level of values.

The big Liberal tent show has been upstaged by Stephen Harper’s Cirque du Soleil and is desperately trying to cow call in those warped and willing enough to pay to see the freak show inside.

“Step right up Ladies and Gentlemen! See the bloated carcass of the fattest man in the world as he gorges at the public trough. You won’t want to miss the Landslide Annie as she burrows out from underneath 20 tons of disgusting excrement and emerges unscathed. Be amazed at the billionairess chameleon as she shifts shape and colour to dazzle all who behold her."

While the crowds at the Harper extravaganza ooh and ahh at the slickly produced feats of grace and daring, the yokel patrons of the tattered red tent poke the attractions with sticks and laugh at their misery.