Gimbol's diatribe and screed

The week thus far

Lets recount some history shalll we.

In 2002 Chretien signed the Kyoto protocol putting our Nation on the hook without so much as a national blueprint to achieve same. Teh task to come up with an actual action plan fell to Bucky Dither's and he and Stephane Dion cobbled something together on the eve of the last election. That plan consisted of having Rick Mercer flog liberal policy and spending billions on information sheets, but still no way of acheiving anything more than a talking point and trying to maintain the moral highground on the enviroment (conservatives after all being detrimental to the enviroment per liberal policy).
When Harper's government produced a clean air act it made something quite evident to the writer. The conservative plan was less about words and more about common sense. Or put another way, less about UN meetings about dubious scientific research and more about cutting pollution. Of course the disciples of the Kyoto protocol will scream and snarl, but the point is that no one has yet provided proof that there is a connection to hunamkind and so-called global warming. Even more obvious is the fact that not one of the proponents can explain global warming in 300 words or less. Case in point, Al Gore needs to produce an hour long movie with lots of scary pictures and graphics so that people see a threat....however, short of scaring the viewer nobody comes away with anything other than its all George Bushes fault.
The big flaw in the Kyoto gangs claim is that they differentiate between pollution (which can be seen) and the green house gases (which is a generic list of naturally occuring substances rated on extrapolated data..but you can't see them, and its all mankinds fault).
This gets further debunked when you consider the "drastic measures" that our Nation Canada would have to take to achieve the targets Chretien obligated us to because of his despirate need for a legacy other than being the man behind Adscam.
Park your car, freeze in the dark, and don't worry about going to work cause there isn't any electricty to operate with. With the grid shutdown, don't bother about getting sick cause without power the hospitals can't operate either. The only choice would be to join the exodus going to the USA where they refused to cater to the Euro-socialists and third world banana republics.
But I digress.
Earlier in the week when the entourage left for Africa, the media couldn't report enough times about how Rona was going to be shadowed by some opposition MP's intent on embarrassing her on the world stage. Imagine their surprise when Ms. Ambrose cut them a new one by letting the international community understand Canada's position that a)the targets a previous government agreed to where bought into sight unseen b) they cannot reasonably be achieved and c) the goal may be noble so we don't think it should be abandoned lets think outside the box.
The UN reacted predictably so no biggie. But the the push back came with Rona's 5 minute speech. Those so eager to embarrass her on the world stage (liberal MP's) basically got a taste of their own medicine and they think its unfair.
Too bad they hold that double standard so tightly, the citizens of the Nation of Canada see our version of Maggie Thatcher stick it to the kook fringe and they like it.
Now over to the APEC summit.
Harper gets "snubbed" by the Chinese because we are told by the hyperventillating media that the Chinese cancelled a meeting at the last minute (forgetting to mention of course it was the Chinese that wanted the meeting in the first place). That of course was the cue to bring in the liberal pundits and Harper haters decrying this action as bad for business and "woah is me the sky is falling" prognositcations that relations with China are at an all time low and its all Harper's fault.
Ahem
Imagine the back tracking and rewriting that is taking place this very AM after we hear that the one on one chinwag is back on again. Seems the Chinese had second thoughts after it was becomeing evident that refusing a meeting because they didn't want to talk about human rights issues would only give a big soapbox to the various groups like amnesty international.
The beauty of this is that the liberals long the party claiming the ground of the party of the charter (human rights don'tcha know) must now ceed some of that ground to Harper.
Schedenfreud.
And what of Garth?
The big news he had? The disturbing revelation? The one he ramped up the media prior to releasing?
He was tearing up his CPC memebership because the CPC didn't want him as a member anymore.
Note to Garth, don't telegraph your punches, now go sit in the corner with Bucky Dither's.

And what of the London by-election?

Seems that with only two and a half weeks to go there could be the makings of a civil war in the newsroom of the London Free Press as factions are being drawn between the liberal candidate (whose wife is a Free Press reporter) and the NDP candidate (whose husband is also a reporter at same venue).

The icing on the cake?

The liberals are scrambling to avoid a "trainwreck" which could destroy the LPC over the motion to declare Quebec a nation in the constitution. It seems that in the rush to pander to sepera... sorry "soft-nationalists" in Quebec and bring them into the fold they didn't think that doing so did not have an excape clause. What the irony is, is that this scenario took two mandates to bring down Mulroney's government, with the liberals its only going to take less than a year.
And they call the NDP "liberals in a hurry".
Gives more credance to the statement (especially since Bob Rae is in the race for Stornoway) that liberals are socialists that can't make up their mind.

All in all its been a good week for Stephen Harper. The nation is strong on the world stage once again and the liberals are in disarray and its drinving them to distraction.

Sucks to be them.

posted by gimbol @ 3:50 AM