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So much for the New New New New Spirit of Cooperation …

by kadyomalley on Tuesday, January 13, 2009 4:17pm - 9 Comments

You’d think the Prime Minister would want to wait until after Jim Flaherty’s meeting with NDP finance critic Thomas Mulcair – not to mention that discussion that he was so looking forward to having with Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff – before complaining that their parties’ respective budget recommendations are “extremely thin”. Apparently, you’d be wrong.

Mulcair, as it happens, has a date with the finance minister later this afternoon. According to a Bloc Quebecois spokesperson, the party sees no point in holding further discussions with the government, as their proposal to address the economic crisis hasn’t changed since it was released in the leadup to the fiscal update. As for that Harper/Ignatieff confab, ITQ hasn’t been able to confirm whether it will, in fact, take place within the next few days, but with a First Ministers’ Meeting on the agenda for Friday, it’s fair to say that they’re cutting it awfully close.

Tags: extraordinary prescience, new new new new new new new spirit of cooperation, pre-budget non-consultations, prime minister stephen harper, wasn't negotiating through the media a bad thing?

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Wascally Wabbit

Dinna fret wee Kady!
Jamie Flaherty has a muckle of bawbies in his sporran. He wilna need the spare change from the Mulcair – and he’ll give a flip of the kilt to the Iggy!
Iggy on the other hand – probably has Rocco Rossi buying a beer for David Plouffe right at this moment…and tomorrow his money box will start filling like a basement in Vancouver.

Clarence Seunarine

Flaherty is of Irish origin not Scottish and as Mike Myers once put it, “If it’s not Scottish, it’s crap!”

mt

official complaint re: front page of the blog section s TOTALLY USELESS unless it is to hide the blogs and push onfotainment.

Maclones still suxxx after having a decent run – the blogs section is no longer useful.

good bye, I hope Kady and few others find a decent publication to work for that does not go out of it’s way to bury and hide your writing because it does not serve the quisling and sycophantic ways of Mr. Whyte.
http://www.21conditions.wordpress.com truemuse

mt,
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, who do we appreciate?
Anon

Layton met with Iggy in Toronto today. I just want to know who set it up. My guess is they’re re-negotiating the coalition. Kady, why weren’t you liveblogging it?

I just have hard time picturing Iggy walking away from the chance to be at 24 Sussex and meet all these foregin leaders as soon as possible. Just can’t see it.

Politicians don’t walk away from Prime Ministerships. They’re either pushed or shoved.
http://macleans.ca kc

I think i’m getting the hang of this politics stuff now.
” [PM ] I am sending you guys a signal, via the media that you needn’t put too much effort into those economic advise thingies because i’ve already decided that they’re way to thin. But come along anyway of course, as we do have to look like wer’e co-operating after all. I’ll slip this in about Michael being closer to my side than theirs. [ he's so thick i bet he wont even notice it at all ] I’m a genius. Now’ll leak this next story about the GG being way to thin and needing another holiday…”
http://caiti-online.blogspot.com/ Transcanada

Steve is off his Coprolalia meds again and the sweater featured in the September campaign ads was really a cleverly disguised straitjacket.

From Wikipedia: Coprolalia is involuntary swearing or the involuntary utterance of obscene words or socially inappropriate and derogatory remarks [at or about opposition parties]
Sisyphus

Ok. We’ll do this because we have to , but ………

http://davidakin.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2009/1/13/4056169.html