She neglects to mention his physical condition, that is, the fact that he was gunned on national TV.
Ah, another story for his AA meeting [yes, he is trying] back home in Ottawa. Downtown Ottawa. Yeah, I know, Anonymous, but word does get out. Still, cascading off the wagon on the CBC has to be a difficult sell even to a room of fellow travellers.
Good thing he doesn't have to worry about getting reelected.
1. Political smackdown. Feathers are flying between Mike Duffy and Peter Stoffer with the good Senator calling the NDP MP an "amiable fake" who should get a "Hollywood award." Indeed, it was fight night on CBC News Network last night as the twitchiness among the political parties over Monday's by-elections is becoming quite evident. Especially raw, it seems, are the NDP and Tories, who are fighting over the Nova Scotia riding of Cumberland-Colchester-Musquodoboit Valley. On Power & Politics with Evan Solomon, there was a particularly nasty debate between the Conservative Senator and the Nova Scotia MP, whose riding, borders the by-election. Earlier in the day, Mr. Stoffer had released a report stating that the 27 Senators appointed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper last year will cost $177-million during their tenure.
This after Mr. Harper had vowed in opposition never to appoint partisans, or anybody for that matter, to the Red Chamber. Mr. Stoffer said this was a big waste of taxpayers' money. In his report, he singled out Senator Duffy, saying he had $44,000 in expenses after only having sat for three months at the end of the 2008- 09 fiscal year. And that had Mr. Duffy seeing red. He defended his spending and called the Stoffer report a "diversion" and a "stunt ... designed to try to sway voters in the by-elections." He said he hoped that on Monday the NDP will be "trounced." Some perspective: The riding has been a Tory stronghold but the NDP are hoping they can ride the coattails of their provincial cousins, who recently formed government under Premier Darrell Dexter.
As Miss Taber soberly points out, the Prime Minister could have prevented Mike Duffy from embarrassing himself on CBCNews [he was already embarrassing himself on CTV News Thingy; presumably that would have continued] by just being true to his word on the Senate.
What a country.
WFDS
No mention of Stoffer's expenses eh, Dan?
ReplyDeleteSeems you Lib assholes just love to leave out important facts, but then you fuck ups can't even find a real leader, what a joke.
You're famous? Don't think so, only in your pea brain I suppose.
Sounds like Duffy's staff were leaving comments around with the above. Or maybe that is Mike Duffy writing you anonymously as that was exactly what Duff was saying on air, and is written just like he speaks, "Seems you......I suppose" a couple a phrases he known to say. I watched him on air for years.
ReplyDeleteI was shocked to see his behaviour on tv as I watched him go off on Politics. I had no idea he was such an obnoxious guy .