541...Tim Powers Doesn't Like Mikey I

Tim Powers is an Ottawa based Conservative Party hack, and I mean that in the nicest way.

He is also featured on CFRA [btw, it is a Farm Boy day!] panels discussing politics with Liberal hacks and NDP hacks. No Green Party hacks on those panels; shouldn't what's her name be complaining to the CRTC about that?

I digress.

Tim, er, Mr. Powers, wrote a seemingly thoughtful piece about the future Prime Minister of Canada, Michael Ignatieff's cabinet, buried in yesterday's Globe and Mail.

Le cut, le paste:

Iggy makes a cabinet?
Tim Powers

I know I did have a few beers last night, but when I woke up this morning to read
 Jane Taber's column about Michael Ignatieff apparently offering people cabinet
posts I thought I should have been a character in the movie The Hangover.
You know the one where the main players get so loaded that when they wake
up the next morning they can't remember what they did and how they changed
their worlds.

So a leader whose party has no platform; who at this point according to polls
 has lost what ever momentum he had in polls; who now in a recent Macleans interview
 is found to have trashed his party's Pearsonian peacekeeping traditions;
 is making a cabinet? And oh yes, he is the Leader of the Opposition,
 a mere technicality of course. This latest adventure is either
exceptionally audacious or the height of that Iggy arrogance that drives
 so many batty except it seems the great man himself and a few of his sycophants.

According to Taber's report: "The Liberal leader recently visited former B.C.
 attorney-general Wally Oppal, who was narrowly defeated in the May provincial
election, and offered him the justice portfolio if he were to run federally,
according to a source close to Mr. Oppal." If Jane's story is right
it appears that Iggy and his Liberals still haven't learned that
Canadians hate that entitlement attitude of theirs. Remember that
classic line from former Liberal minister David Dingwall:
"I am entitled to my entitlements." It was that frame of mind
that led to the sponsorship scandal, sank the Martin juggernaut
and put the Liberals on the bench.

Canadians do have this terrible expectation that people who seek
 public office work for their vote and offer some plans on what they might do.
 Presumably Iggy forgot about that while he was away. The Liberals don't have
 an inherit right to govern despite their Leader's current delusion.

In case it also slipped your mind Michael, in
 parliamentary democracies like Canada, there is a process called an
 election whereby those common folk known as the Canadian public
decide who becomes the government.

Not happy one bit, is Mr. Powers. And you thought I was snarky.

WFDS