Harper scraps commission idea after setback
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is scrapping the idea of a new public appointments commission after opposition MPs rejected his nominee to chair it."So what that tells us is that we won't be able to clean up the process in this minority Parliament. We'll obviously need a majority government to do that in the future," Harper said Tuesday.
You won't be able to? You need a majority? There's a little problem with the logic here: the vote of the committee which opposed this appointment isn't binding as is noted near the end of that CTV story.
If Harper believes in his accountability package and his nominee, he's quite free to ignore this vote and put his nominee in place anyway. He might take some political flak for it, but if he's really chosen the right man for the job then it should prove out, shouldn't it? Or he could, you know, put forward another nominee.
It couldn't be that Harper chose someone controversial for the job precisely so he could manufacture a reason why he needs a majority, could it? Nah, he wouldn't do a thing like that.
I wonder how most Canadians will see this. Seems to me he's acting like a spoiled brat who's taking his ball and leaving the game. Like the jerk that he is.
"So what that tells us is that we won't be able to clean up the process in this minority Parliament. We'll obviously need a majority government to do that in the future," Harper said Tuesday.
Obviously. I mean, it's not like politics is the art of compromise or anything; if your first demand is rejected, then clearly the only thing to do is fold up and take the issue completely off the table until you can force your unadulterated views through without having to compromise on anything with anyone.
That seems to me a classic combination: part sulky child who can't get his way right away, part future authoritarian, still getting even for the frustrations and insults he endured in his youth.
The man is definitely a case. Not that I ever doubted that, but he has been astonishingly open and consistent in his neuroses almost from the day he was elected.
...but, but...Harper's intelligent...and funny. I know; I read that in the Globe and Mail.
Somehow I don't think this will make it through the headlines of "The Gun Registry Was a Trillion Times Worse Than Anyone Could Have Imagined - Babies are Dying in the Street Because of Liberal Corruption."
The reporting of the gun story has me... concerned. That hilarious Tory spin is being taken so much more seriously than diametrically opposed, quantifiable, well publicized facts. It is all very familiar.
Gwyn Morgan had an opinion piece in the Globe today, bemoaning the 'petty partisan politics' that kept him from the office that he was so clearly meant for, perhaps even, dare I say, predestined to occupy. It's a ridiculous piece that puts all the blame on the various other opposition parties, makes Morgan himself out to be a great statesmen brought down by amoral politicos out to specifically shiv him, and completely fails to mention Harper's 'I'm taking my ball and going home' response to having his first choice rejected by the committee.
Wankery of the highest order.
One more reason I don't even bother with the Glub & Maul (see: 'A word, Mr.Gee?' above).