Bud Talkinghorn: How low can it go? The Liberals' Gomery play

Update: A new post, "Survivors", has been added after "Saudis import Slaves to America" which I consider to be a "must read" article. I hope readers enjoy the update. NJC




Bud Talkinghorn:

Thanks to CBC's Don Newman, actually, I was able to hear the full contents of the legal letter which the Liberals sent to Chretien's law firm. It stated that the liberals would not oppose Chretien if he wanted to go to the Federal Court to have Gomery declared biased, and hence, the actual report could not be made public. Justice Gomery is incensed by the letter's subtext: "wink-wink, we hope you do go the Federal Court." That could tie up the Inquiry's release for years. As one wit put it, "Martin lives to die another day."

I don't feel it is putting too negative a spin on this story to suggest that the Liberals have a fall-back position. Should the final Gomery Report tar the Liberal Party, in general, then drastic action is called for. This stalling tactic should ignite a bonfire of disgust. However the Liberals know the remedy for placating a furious electorate. Throw billions on that bonfire and the flames die out. If that doesn't work, create some monstruously untrue image of your opponent. It wouldn't be hard to corral the liberal media into pushing that image relentlessly. Anyway, almost everybody already thinks Martin is a liar, so there won't be much reputation damage -- and the government will be saved.

The Opposition found out about the letter's existence about two weeks ago. They hounded Scott Brison and Irvine Cotler about its contents. The Liberals said there was no such letter. Now we know--or are quite certain--that those two are part of the liars club. Almost every day reveals another layer of sleaze in the Liberal Party. It isn't simply about Adscam anymore. Now there are acts of criminality like the Grewal affair, and dirty tactics to thwart justice and a public accounting for their behaviour. Forget the scary Harper hype; what is scarier is that, despite the litany of Liberal corruption, the Liberal stock rises in the polls. Especially in Ontario. Have we come to that apathetic stage where Canadians will keep re-electing this corrupt party? Have we come to expect our elected leaders to be nothing but incompetents, on-the-take grafters, and pathological liars? I sincerely hope not, however, it is drifting in that direction.

© Bud Talkinghorn


Comment:

Bud, IMHO, so many are bought and paid for that we may have a society not fixable if we cannot rid Canada of this climate of corruption and wink, wink, nod, nod complicity, along with the acceptance that this is the way things are done in this best of all possible worlds (liberal/Liberal worlds, anyway). Those who go along with the way things are either cannot add up the true costs and realize how little they are getting for selling out their principles, their souls or the country, but especially for trusting in government's increasing control of all. . . Or, maybe they mean well and are simply deluded by BS and bafflegab, to put the best face on it. Either way, I think democracy and the decent society we used to know are gone forever, destroyed from within and complicity outside the government. While not perfect--none are--past government appeared to be was far superior to what we have in this top-down Liberal-governed one which pays no attention to what the majority want and then feeds us cliched crap about the wonders of it all.

NJC--the Frosted Cynic who would consider drowning her cynicism in some alcoholic libation . . . except that the government taxes alcoholic beverages so highly that death by scotch is impossible. So she lives . . . . to think of these *&#$%&^'s another day . . . and drink milk, politically correct skim milk, of course.

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