Ignatieff's "Irony Gone Wild" Tour Stalls

Here I was concerned that we Tory bloggers wouldn't have much to write about this summer, until a reader predicted 3 weeks ago that "the BBQ season should be pretty entertaining", and on the ceremonial launch day the "Liberal Express" can't even make it 100km from Ottawa to Cornwall! I'm not a religious man, but after Iggy's weekend "smells like sulphur" comments, today's broken down bus kind of feels like divine intervention. Iggy has a big press conference/speech before everyone boards Pandora's bus, where he says how important it is for them to take their message to the BBQs, to the backyards; and the "Liberal Express" dies before they even get to their first event! Does it get any better than that? The jokes write themselves.

If you haven't seen the footage of the press conference before Iggy boards the bus, it is priceless must see TV, especially knowing that the bus was going to breakdown. Iggy puts on this silly red hat, tells the camera how important it is to take his message to Canadians, and the rest is irony. Suggest the Prime Minister is the Devil, then your bus tour stalls after launch? I'd say the probability that God exists is higher this evening than it was this morning.

This did remind me of my only experience with a stalled bus. After winning our first of two regional football championships, we were at a field an hour outside of town and our bus wouldn't start. We all got out and pushed. We got it going pretty fast and we made it back safe and sound. You'd be surprised how fast a high school football team can get a bus moving in a short distance.

Liberals don't strike me as the types to get out and push...