That's the way many are feeling since Harper installed three losing candidates back in as senators. It's not an unelected senate, but a defeated-at-election senate. Yes folks, politics is shameless. Bev Oda and the three amigos are a smack-in-your-face move, in case you thought anything would change. Remember, he plunked David Emmerson in in 2006 the same way and and the lazy press gallery only screamed about it for two minutes. (As an ex-journalist, I can tell you they are idle and dilatory, with a very short attention span.)
The PM has your votes and your money and won't be held to account by anyone. With a majority, he can at last bask openly in an unfettered dictatorship. Makes you wonder how much more heavily his hand would come down if he ruled, say, in Africa? Or Communist China? Or Haiti? Or Saudi Arabia? As I earlier blogged, Jack Layton and his teanaged sidekicks, the ragtag scattering of Liberals, four shell-shocked Blocquists and (especially) Liz May are completely irrelevant -- however triumphantly they screamed and smiled on election night. May they rest in peace.
I think he will push his agenda hard and get turfed out in four years. But he is such an elegant and breathtaking chess player that I wonder...? Thank God we have an entrenched Parliamentary democracy to withstand this boorish assault on Upper and Lower Canadian values. Elections will come 'round and Canadians will speak.
This particular Tammany Hall will crumble.
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