Saturday, July 3, 2010

Iggy's Back

Liberal leader Mike Ignatieff has returned from yet another European vacation and was given the honour of meeting the Queen yesterday. Despite there being plenty of press at the meeting, Iggy decided to do his press conference from in front of the doors of the House of Commons. This has been his standard procedure ever since prorogation, his vain attempt to send the message that he does all his business right in front of the doors of the legislature. He really wants us to think he is hard at work, despite being 307th out of 308 on the Parliamentary attendance list this past session. He likes talking from in front of the doors, but he doesn't really like going inside the doors to vote on legislation. That's the nature of the beast from the east.

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  1. This has to be your best ever written line, and you've had some masterpieces.

    "He likes talking from in front of the doors, but he doesn't really like going inside the doors to vote on legislation."

    What is up with this anyway? Does he not know how silly he looks or is Donollo trying to make him look silly? Or at least sillier than he manages to do on his own.

    However the good thing about all of this is that being HE IS A CANADIAN TOURIST, at least he blended in with the other TOURISTS wandering the halls of the Parliament Buildings!

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  2. If you had to reverse your position as often as he does, not showing up to vote makes sense.

    He might be be having difficulty to vote for or against without a weather pane in sight.

    I did not realize he was away until I read he went to attend the graduation of his daughter from his first marriage.

    His meeting with Nick Clegg may have been the highlight.

    With Liberal infighting again, his ability to lead is diminshed.

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  3. Is it just me or does Ignatieff seem to be lost. First of all he wants to convince farmers to vote for him because he is going to encourage Canadians to buy local produce and he is going to give a tax credit to fire fighters?
    He meets the Queen for one half hour and he suggests she has a sense of the absurd. He then keeps reminding Canadians that he is not doing well and he needs to get their vote one by one, one press scrum at a time.
    Now he embarks on a bus tour that will probably take him to the gyms of every local high school across the country so he can talk to Liberal partisans. Yikes. The man is an accident waiting for a place to happen. Harper will make him look like the fool he is during an election campaign. The Canadian farmer had 13 years of the Liberal party and they were no better off. They have long memories.

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