Category: Grits

As if any of us actually needed one more reason why the federal HypoGrits (or any other branch of that malodourous menagerie of Machiavellian manipulators, for that matter), they decided to toss us another one anyway. At their Grand Poohbah Pageant in Montreal yesterday, the Fiberal old guard elected — in a vote of 318-299 — to stick with the “tried and true” system for electing party leaders and turfed the treacherous talk of switching to a “one member, one vote” system.

Under their current system, only delegates at the leadership convention get to vote on who leads the party and those that can’t afford to cough up several hundred bucks for travel, hotel, time off work, etc so that they can go to the little shindig are SOL. Every other federal party — and most provincial ones too, for that matter — long ago switched to an all-member voting process where every party member has a say in who leads. It’s called democracy; a peculiar notion quite foreign to the Librano$. The reaction was, of course, predictable:

Youthful Liberals whooped, clapped high-fives and hugged as delegates voted by a narrow majority to reject the constitutional amendment. The resolution needed a two-thirds majority to pass, meaning the count really wasn’t close.

Oddly enough, the most prominent (if feeble) criticism of this insider mentality came from what was for me, at least, the most unlikely-seeming of sources:

The vote marked a repudiation of sorts for MP Belinda Stronach.Stronach, a Conservative leadership candidate in 2004, declined to run in the Liberal race, saying she was committed instead to reforming her new party’s leadership process. She reportedly spent hundreds of dollars out of her own pocket this week paying for flyers to promote the one-member, one-vote initiative.

“You know what, we’re missing 98 per cent of the family here today,” Stronach implored delegates, speaking from one of the floor microphones at the Palais des congres.

So why the hell would the Grits not want all their membership to be able to vote? It’s simple, really. For the same reason that they refuse to put truly important things (same sex marriage being just one example) to referenda: being the typical, social-engineering, we-know-what’s-best-for-you Leftists that they are, they are utterly terrified that the Great Unwashed Masses might vote wrong!

This is what the Fiberals think of their own party members. Too damned dumb to be trusted with any important decisions where they might disagree with the plutocrats. This is what they think of their own.

Imagine what they think of you.

Aw, shucks.  It looks like getting an electoral kick in the arse from the people of London and losing the plum job he was eyeing to Anne Marie DeCicco-Notthebest (57,891 to 35,803), ol’ Joe Bananas, former Liberal Minister of Not Getting Much Done, is throwing in the towel.  Guess Fightin’ Joe doesn’t have any fight left in him…

Oddly enough, while firing off his last shots at the Polish Hall last night, Joe actually sounded pretty…  well, conservative: 😯

“Whatever the final numbers are, you cannot ignore a lot of people believe that this city needs change,” Fontana told about 300 supporters last night after conceding the mayoral race to incumbent Anne Marie DeCicco-Best.

“We cannot continue to tax people. We cannot continue to see our young people leave. We cannot continue to see our neighbourhoods and our downtown be a place where people are afraid to go to,” Fontana said.

Now he grows a brain… 🙄

GLEE! GLEE!

I’ve practically got it coming out the wazoo. Glee, that is. I know, I know; it’s poor sportsmanship, in bad taste and all that. But, like Ebenezer Scrooge on Christmas morning, I just can’t help it!

Alright; calming down now; taking a deep breath and all that. Just what is it that’s got me so obnoxiously happy, you want to know? Okay, I’ll tell you.

Everybody knows that politicians have an amusing tendency to shoot themselves in the foot every now and then. King Ralph seems to have a bead permanently drawn on his big toe but then, Ralph seems to have kevlar boots, too. 🙄 Anyways, the Freeps, along with a bunch of other MSM outlets, is yoleling away about how local HypoGrit Dave Burghardt has nuked himself in the foot, and MP wannabe Glen Pearson was nowhere near minimum safe distance. It seems that ol’ Dave was a blogger a while ago (but it’s all gone POOF now) and was displaying signs of a decidedly unHypoGritical mindset. Some of the more damaging examples from today’s Freeps:

Belinda Stronach’s defection from the Conservatives to the Liberals: “All this demonstrates one more reason why women shouldn’t be allowed to run for office, much less vote. It is a fool who looks (for) logic in the chambers of the female mind.” (May 18, 2005).

Grits: “What it means to be Liberal was long ago replaced with greed, expediency and corruption…. the Liberal Party is dying, suffering from a chronic case of no ideas, no leaders and no ability to do anything about it.” (March 19, 2006).

Kyoto: “The idea behind Kyoto is so utterly stupid it’s no wonder our loony left has embraced it as the environmental saviour. . . Kyoto is nothing but PR — it won’t work, it’s only a chance for international leaders to get their pictures taken together looking like environmentalists.” (March 28, 2005);

Muslim feelings of alienation: “If the Muslim community feels alienated from the rest of Canada, pass the Ny-Quil because I won’t be able to sleep tonight.” (July 20, 2005).

😯 Oh, poop. Women shouldn’t vote? And the Moonbat Brigade likes to hoot about US supposedly being a bunch of mean, nasty, lowbrow, knuckle-dragging, protohuman… ah, you get the idea. 😆 Seeing the Librano$ getting flogged with their own favourite stick like this is enough to give me wood of my own. 😉

To give some credit to the poor bugger, Pearson did pinkslip the blowhard Burghardt immediately after finding out about the blog on Sunday morning. He then promptly proved, once and for all, that he really is a typical so-open-minded-his-brain-fell-out liberal: he went to Dipper rival Megan Walker and, well… See for yourself:

“I did say to her, ‘Megan, it is up to you and your team what you want to do about it, but Dave is a friend of mine,’ and I hoped she would do the right thing. These kinds of things can affect a person and I wanted her to be thinking about that.”

Walker, naturally, promptly ran to the nearest media stooge she could find and tattled:

“This raises some very serious questions about Glen Pearson’s judgment,” said Walker

I agree with the Dipper. Yes, you read that right. This does raise questions (and damned serious ones, at that) about Glen Pearson’s judgement. Anyone that can possibly be so naive as to think, whether through ignorance or willful self-deception, that a fawning footsoldier in the rabid regiments of the Looney Left somehow would refrain from exploiting anything and everything that they can get their hands on (usually in the most crass, lowest-common-denominator fashion) for political gain is clearly too deluded to be trusted with public office of any kind.

Bye, Glen. It was fun while it lasted.

Can anybody really say that they’re surprised at this? It seems that after endless promises to clean up the governmental act, the Ontario Liberals’ much-ballyhooed Transparency in Public Matters Act has been, very quitely, dumped. In typical Grit fashion, this skullduggery, as opposed to their blaring promotion of the act in the first place, was pulled off so quietly and stealthily that it almost slipped past J. Q. Ontarien completely unnoticed.

Caught with their hand yet again in the cookie jar of yet another hollow election promise, Sarnia MPP Caroline Di Cocco (who was spearheading the act, once upon a time) tried the tired old Grit routine of “lie, deny and act surprised:”

…on April 5, Di Cocco was appointed minister of culture by Premier Dalton McGuinty. Her bill was withdrawn a few days later, something that has only recently come to light.

…Di Cocco said yesterday she was unaware when she was appointed minister her bill had to die under the legislature’s rules because ministers can’t push private member’s bills.

“That’s just a rule that’s there,” she said. “I wasn’t aware of it at the time.”

Of course you weren’t, Boopsie. After all, you’re just a girl and can’t be expected to grok all that icky government rules stuff, right? It’s not as if your constituents expected you to be competent when they elected you or anything like that.

Nobody seems fooled, though. Even her own campaign manager quit in disgust:

“I’m very disappointed. That sums it all up,” Robert Swift of Point Edward said yesterday.

“Since she became a part of the government, it’s a waste of time talking to her about these kinds of issues.”

Well, just what do you expect from a Liberal??

If a Tory did this, there would be holy hell to pay. Screeching handwringers everywhere would bemoan the inhumanity and degradation of it all. Dire comparisons would be drawn to pimping and slave auctions and the dude who dared to do such a dastardly deed would be eviscerated by the CBC.

But since it’s the great Grit second-coming-of-Pierre-Trudeau, Michael Ignatieff, that’s auctioning people off (no, that’s not a typo), I guess it’s all okay.

Yes indeed, truth really is stranger than fiction. Several Grits are on the block to raise money for Iggy’s run for the big comfy chair at the Grit table, with Ruby Dhalla getting the best bids so far (go figure).

And last but not least, an interesting little side tidbit from near the end of the article:

The auction has illuminated once again Liberals’ undying devotion to party icon and former prime minister Pierre Trudeau.

A program from the Liberals’ 1984 convention, with a cover photo of the late Trudeau, has drawn a bid so far of $111.

Some things really do never change.

Good news for a change. It seems that the Grits have actually done something right, even if it was done more for optics that out of any sense of right and wrong (Grit morality twists and turns in the wind of public opinion, after all). Amid a barrage of criticism from virtually every non-islamofascist corner of the land, including within his own party, Ontario Grit MP Boris Wrzesnewskyj has resigned his post as as deputy foreign affairs critic. And none too soon.

Now all we need to do is get this terrorists’ useful idiot out of Parliament altogeather.

Wrzesnewskyj, you might remember, is the clown who earned the endearment of every terrorist sympathizer in the country by saying it would be a good idea for Canada to open up a dialogue with Hezbullshit and remove them from Canada’s list of terrorist organisations. How the hell do idiots like this even get elected in the first place?

Oh, yeah, I forgot. He’s from Toronto.