On October 16, 2008, two days after Federal Elections I wrote and posted following comment on Trusty Tory Blogspot.

http://returnofthetory.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/a-stacked-senate/

on October 16, 2008 at 12:08 am “karol’

Harper the bridge player is already executing his next move. Unlike previous glorious leaders stacking the Senate before the election as a hedge and a poison pill for successors Harper not only refrained from such move but had one senator Michael Fortier (see: here) resign his Senate seat and run for elected office.

With Liberals still reeling from electoral defeat Harper was quick to play finesse on his political opponents and publicly raised the issue of Senate reform. He stated that if opposition leaders (Stephanie Dion and defeated Liberals) would not endorse his demand for Senate reform he will stack the Senate (with recently retired Conservative MPs).

Michael Fortier’s electoral defeat that seem to have been planed well in advance (see: here) as it creates a situation where Liberals are bound to accuse Harper of preferring option of appointing Senators of his own choosing rather than having them face unpredictable electorate.

This well choreographed situation will further alienate Liberals from NDP and the Block as it will pit governing Conservatives and defeated Liberals against NDP and the Block that have no representation in Upper Chamber.

No matter how Liberals are going to spin Senate debacle they are bound to loose on this issue. If they support Harper’s position now and call for Senate reforms they will alienate current Liberal Senators and open the door for Harper to push his legislative agenda thru both Houses with Senate reform issue pitting Liberals in both Houses against each other.

It seems like a very cynical setup by Conservatives as Liberals will have to wear the blame for whatever decision Harper makes. If and when Harper (tired of bickering) stacks the Senate with twenty five (17 vacancies +extra Conservative Senators he will be able to claim that he is merely restoring political balance based on fresh mandate from Canadian electorate.

This bold Harper’s move will spell doom for the Liberals who will be blamed by the left (NDP, Greens, and Block) for blocking Senate reform when Conservatives tried to push it thru HoC and the Senate and preventing formation of a effective left wing coalition with majority in both Chambers (with 8 extra senators, Conservatives and PC will have majority in Senate by end of June 2009 due to retirements).

It seems quite possible that in the end Harper will have it both ways Senate stacked with Conservatives in short term and Senate reform in a long run.

Almost two months went by and we have seen opposition parties forming coalition (Three Stooges Rebellion) and threatening to overthrow Conservative government.

This attempt to stage the coup d’etat, was delayed by PM Harper proroguing Parliament until end of January. Just recently Liberal leader Dion stepped down and new leader Michael Ignatieff was installed in his place.

Today’s newspapers are full of articles mentioning Harper’s intent to fill vacancies in the Senate. Please, read excerpts from today’s Star article I am posting below.

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/552604

Even if Harper does not succeed in securing an outright majority in the Senate, he could get what an official called a “functioning majority,” because “not all members of the Senate are terribly active.”

The Liberals currently have 58 senators to the Tories’ 20, with the remainder sitting as independents or claiming other party affiliations, such as Progressive Conservative. Another 11 vacancies in the 105-seat chamber are expected to open up next year.

“As in dire need of reform as the Senate is,” said the official, “it still fulfills a function within this place and it’s important that we have the bodies there to do it.”

The government official said the new senators would be appointed under the current rules and would sit until the mandatory retirement age of 75.

As for whether Harper would use an extraordinary power in the Constitution (called the deadlock clause) to name extra senators to secure a majority, the official declined a direct answer.

“We’ve not made any indication of that. That’s a power that does rest with the Prime Minister as a way of overcoming the impasse. But what we’re talking about right now is the 18 vacancies.”

The power was once used by former Progressive Conservative prime minister Brian Mulroney to move his GST legislation through a gridlocked Senate.

Harper does not intend to name any of the senators to his cabinet, nor to consult provinces on the upcoming appointments, the official said, adding regional representation is “already built into” the institution as seats are assigned on a provincial basis.

The official disputed any suggestion the public might question the optics or the legitimacy of the move. He suggested most Canadians don’t support the unelected chamber because it is unaccountable.

“We are the elected government. There is nothing as a part of prorogation that limits the government to make appointments.”

When I wrote my analysis almost two months ago that indicated that Conservatives could have absolute majority in the Senate by end of June of next year if Harper appoints 8 extra senators in addition to 18 vacancies I did not take into account issue of absenteeism that seems to be plaguing Canadian Upper Chamber. It is quite possible that that Conservatives could have functioning majority in the Senate much sooner than I have initially anticipated.

That possibility puts Harper’s gamble in totally different perspective as it shows that Senate majority might as well have been his end goal from the very beginning of current political crisis.

As of today, political optics for such move as favourable as they were right after federal elections become even more favourable, thanks in large part to complete ineptitude and actions of Harper’s political opponents.

Got something in my inbox today from Jeremy in Ottawa. With all the whining we hear coming from everyplace, whether it’s the MSM or just some kook you bump into, you’d think we were living at the end of days.

There was a time, though, when things were different in this country. A lot different.

Methinks we really need, every now and then, to get ourselves a good upside-the-head kind of reminder that no matter how bad we think we have it, it could always be one hell of a lot worse.

I’ll let Jeremy tell it from here (reproduced just like I got it; just changed some format)… (more…)

Revolutionary developments on legal front in Ontario

Ontario Court of Appeals spoke out; Charter Rights of Fathers are to be upheld – kind of.

You just made it boys: From now on you will be permitted to speak to the judge before you are thrown in jail for not making enough money to meet your spousal support and child support obligations. (more…)

How dare we?

Just what the hell were we thinking?

Just who the hell do we think we are to have the gall to try and speak out in defence of our democratic heritage on THEIR DAY without clearing it with the feminists first?

In case you haven’t figured it out, tomorrow’s Rally For Canada events, organized to protest the Sedition Coalition’s™ attempted coup d’etat, is falling on the same day as the annual National Never Hear The End Of It Day Montreal Massacre Memorial Antipenis Rally… and the Fembots® are pissed:

Holding a political rally on a day set aside to remember women who have been victims of violence is “a slap in the face,” a London MP charged yesterday.

An angry London-Fanshawe NDP MP Irene Mathyssen was joined by women’s advocates who also said rallies tomorrow to protest attempts in Ottawa to replace the Harper federal government with a coalition party are inappropriate.

“For them to use a day to remember our obligation to women . . . for their crass political purpose is beyond description,” said Mathyssen.

Yeah, right. And it’s not like the Leftoids used Gamil Gharbi and 14 dead women for their own political purposes or anything like that.  The Feminazis have been politicizing the whole damn thing for nearly 20 years and using Gamil Gharbi as a cudgel with which to guilt-beat an entire generation of males who never did a damn thing to any woman.  Yes, Gamil Gharbi. What do you mean, you’ve never heard of him?? Of course you have; he killed 14 young women and wounded 13 more with a Ruger Mini-14 at L’Ecole Polytechnic in Montreal in 1989. But you never hear that, do you?

It was the feminists who started this whole “crass political purpose” bullshit in the first place, so they’ve got no business whining now.  STFU.

Megan Walker, executive director of the London Abused Women’s Centre, called the rallies’ timing “inappropriate.”

“It speaks to me about how insignificant Dec. 6 has become . . .” Walker said, adding she’d feel the same way about any political rally being held tomorrow. “The government has failed in sending the message Dec. 6 is a national day of remembrance.”

No, Megan, your beloved Big Nanny Government® hasn’t failed anything. Canadians in general — and, let’s be honest, men in particular — are just sick and tired of being browbeaten over the actions of an Algerian-born son of a wife-beating Islamofascist, dressed up in the pseudonym of “Marc Lepine.”

Here’s a secret: Marc Lepine didn’t do it. There IS NO Marc Lepine. There never was. He only existed on paper. Gamil did it all.

But you didn’t know that, did you? After all, a name like “Gamil Gharbi” and the whole Algerian-born son of a Muslim wife-beater thing would be very politically incorrect to point out, not to mention rather unwieldy as a PR tool. No, a much better name is the one that he took in 1977. Flinging the name “Gamil Gharbi” around might raise questions about Islam, Algerian culture, his ancestry and upbringing, etc etc etc, and all kinds of other potentially politically incorrect implications that could prove pretty problematic for the malingering malcontents in the man-hater menagerie.

But “Marc Lepine?” Aaahh, that’s perfect: it just sounds soooo… so Canadian; so white; so safe to demonize. And for ten long years, that was the only name that we knew him by.  It wasn’t until the TO Star published it that anybody knew. And so, every year, the sixth of December becomes a day not so much about honouring the dead as dishonouring the living, as “Marc Lepine” is held up as the symbol of the murderous misogyny that lurks within all men. He was held up as the perfect example of the evil — and, we were told, typical — Canadian male.

So go ahead. Get together tomorrow and have whatever the hell it is that’s the feminist version of a circle-jerk. We have more important things to do.

Besides, those from my generation are getting fed up with getting blamed, ad nauseum, for something we didn’t do and those of my son’s generation are sick and tired of getting nagged over something that happened before they were born.

If Gamil Gharbi’s my fault, then Karla Homolka’s your damned fault. Make sure to get back to somebody on that one.

The Liberal fire ship.

Liberal ship was taking so much water in that it seemed impossible to keep it afloat much longer. Abandoning it was was not so much of an option as a matter of timing. Question was what to do next as the Liberals felt trapped between Conservatives firmly entrenched on right end of political spectrum continuously expanding into the centre and New Democrats advancing from left and of political spectrum taking away voters and potential political donors. Saving the Liberal ship would not have saved political body of water where it could possibly sail even if it were in a good repair. There was only one way out of that bind and that was to secretly convert Liberal ship into a fire ship and use it to destroy NDP ship and kill their captain. It was the only thing that Liberal ship was still good for and that made the decision so much easier.

After secret conversion Liberal fire ship was anchored in an open harbour badly listing to one side, flag of distress was was raised and Captain Dion bravely stood on the bridge shouting commands, some old blind and hobbling sailors moved around pretending that they were still able to raise the sails and man the cannons. Other two ships decided to plunder it under a pretext that they were joining it to form a flotilla and attack Conservative Man of War. They were in for a very nasty surprise. As they boarded fire ship under the pretext of signing some kind of a treaty Conservative Man of War approached fired its canons and set Liberal fire ship ablaze. It was only then that the captains of the other two ships come to realise what kind of a trap they got themselves into.

As the crew of Liberal ship float about in their row boats they rejoice watching unfolding scene of mayhem and destruction.

Who said that it is only Captain Harper who is the master strategist??

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Thursday, December 04, 2008
Liberal MP Jim Karygiannis says coalition is finished, Dion should resign

There’s been a lot of blabbing back and forth in the MSM (and in the blogosphere, too) about what a dumbass, stupid, politically suicidal track HMPM Harper has been taking in the whole Coup d’Twits ’08â„¢ affair. Even longtime, hardcore Harper faithful were weeping, wailing and gnashing their teeth over what a blunder it was and how it was going to come back and bite the whole C/conservative movement where the sun don’t shine.

Personally, I didn’t agree; I was of the mind that the PM had gone for the jugular and should just keep on going.

Well, as it turns out, Steve didn’t do things the way I would have liked, but the end result is hardly the doom and gloom we were hearing in the blogs — and are still hearing in the MSM. :roll:  Come to think of it, things are actually looking a little on the rosy side.  Go figure:

OTTAWA – Almost three-quarters of Canadians say they are “truly scared” for the future of the country and a solid majority say they would prefer another election to having the minority Conservative government replaced by a coalition led by Stephane Dion, a new Ipsos-Reid poll says.

The poll also indicates Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Conservatives would romp to a majority victory with a record 46 per cent public support if an election were held today.

[…]

The poll indicates the prospect of the Dion-led coalition has prompted Canadians to rethink the value of an election so soon after the Oct. 14 poll. Fifty-six per cent said they would rather go to the polls than be governed by the coalition.

Funny as hell, how some things work out sometimes, eh?  But that’s not the only bad news for Celine Stephane.  Nosiree.  The rats are already hopping off the boat and the Lieberal cutlery is out and getting sharpened up for his hide again…

Within an hour of Prime Minister Stephen Harper winning a two-month reprieve, some Grit MPs were pulling back from the idea of trying to replace the Tory regime with a Liberal-NDP coalition propped up by the Bloc Quebecois.

Toronto MP Jim Karygiannis says the coalition idea is finished and is calling on Stephane Dion to resign the Liberal leadership sooner rather than later.

Gee whiz, who’d have seen that coming?