Toodaloo, Muriel

In a brilliant decision, Trump has ordered the National Guard to take over policing in Washington.  So it's ta ta, Muriel Bowser, the Democratic mayor who has failed to control crime and ruination in the city.  

"This is unsettling and unprecedented," said Bowser.  "But we will continue to operate the city in a way that makes citizens proud."  Really?  From what I have seen, if she's making it a source of civic pride, then she and I have vastly different definitions of the word.

"The city's police officers still report to me," she continued.  Well, that's about to change, Your Worship, because you have done a "terrible job", as Trump is wont to say about so many things.  

Some of the city’s police officers appear to be breaking from Bowser in support of Trump’s order.  Gregg Pemberton, chair of the Washington police union, called the federal intervention into the city’s police “a critical stopgap.  We stand with the President in recognizing that Washington, DC, cannot continue on this trajectory. Crime is out of control and our officers are stretched beyond their limits,” Pemberton said in a statement.

Do you think Carney will do that in Ottawa, where once-banner streets like Rideau and Elgin are now cesspools of homelessness, crime, drug activity and public disorder?  It is to laugh.  We drove down Rideau two years ago while on a visit and I was shocked to see people lying about and defecting in broad daylight!

Ottawa these days.

When I was growing up there, shopping with my Mother was a great treat and Rideau Street was a beautiful, bustling venue.  What's Mayor Mark Sutcliffe doing?  Apparently, nothing.  Time's up for him and Carney should step in.  But, of course, he won't because he is weak and afraid of his own shadow.  

Rideau is just a few steps from Parliament Hill, for Gawd's sake.  Tourists flock there and what do they see when they venture down Rideau?  People relieving themselves on the sidewalk and shooting up drugs.

It's a scandal and a disgrace to our country's capital.  Queen Victoria, who chose it, would not be amused.