very true…just ask gordon campbell ;-)

The grassroots find Ignatieff irritating and creepy

I'm sorry for wishing this but when the next election arrives, I'd like to see this pathetic excuses for a Canadian party crushed beyond recognition.

But we’re not in an election campaign right now. I expect the Liberals will have something to say about the failure to roll out stimulus funds, the failure to make a serious attempt at EI reform during a season of high unemployment, the social-conservative heebie-jeebies over the funding of gay pride events, and other public issues. (medical isotopes? anti-immigrant grandstanding?)

Right now, I don’t think Canadians are tuned in. But when the election campaign begins, there will be a receptive audience for such concerns. The numbers you cite can’t be ignored, but they aren’t chiselled in stone, either.

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A small one yes, but a chance nonetheless. Now they have no real prospect of winning with the economy on the mend and at a faster pace than our friends to the South.

Perhaps the Liberals got the leader they paid for. (In democratic terms they paid nothing as he was appointed by a small cabal who apparantly thought they knew better than the ignorant masses at the party base).

Im not an expert on polling but I would imagine it might not necessarily mean much when comparing the right/wrong track question across countries, as that Americans are different from Canadians and have different perceptions of government in general. I would be curious to see how the right/wrong track question tracks over time to Canadians.

It would be silly of Michael Ignatieff to force an election over EI. He will be crucified on it (9 weeks of work for 52 weeks of pay!) The communications machine is already moving.

The Liberals need to wait until they have something legitimate to object to.

I can see them winning election on one of two things (or a combination of both):

(1) If stimulus spending went disproportionately to Conservative riding

(2) If they prove that only a small fraction of stimuls spending has been spent.

It doesn't surprise me that sharing your thoughts publicly more frequently is Murphy's idea of working hard.

I look forward for a time when an editor at the Globe and Mail has the balls to edit its columnists work.

"There is something, however, in the Liberals' approach that suggests that, maybe from their long habit of being in power, they expect it will be theirs again simply by default. Maybe that's why Mr. Ignatieff has had, in terms of visibility and profile, so relaxed and ruminative a summer. Maybe he or his party don't think much work is required, that they also win who only sit and wait. This is an error."

Ahem.

Wouters
Another morn I greet, another road
Whereof the destination I know not,
Save that, though every flinty step be hard,
At last a gracious God will show the way.
But come, who's this? Hail, Giorno, and well met!

Giorno
All hail, good Clerk. But what's your bulky file?

Wouters
Herein are written all the subtle schemes
For bettering the fate of Canada,
For laws, reform, in short for legacy,
Which presently I'll show to the PM.

Giorno
Alas! to speak to one that hears you not
Or play charades before a man born blind
Would be as futile as this earnest wish.

Wouters
Come, come, what dire news of woe is this?

Giorno
The man whom lately pundits reverenced,
Whose bright agenda, like a heav'n-sent flame,
Once lit the hearts of all from sea to sea,
Hath lately stumbled into that deep slough
Which wiser men than we have named Despond.

Wouters
Doth he lament yet for that sweater-vest
Of baby blue which pitiless moths devoured?

Giorno
For that, and for his hockey book, for all
His garden's fruit that withered in the frost.

Wouters
Speak not in riddles, nor in metaphor.

Giorno
In times like this a man circumlocutes.

Wouters
But wherefore moths, and frost, and hockey book?
And whither his polit'cal capital?
Say not some thief, some Baird, some Pollièvre,
Hath filched what Harper's patient hoard accrued? . . . .

Those "right direction" numbers have to be sobering, if not depressing to the Liberal brass. This ain't quite fallin' in their lap like they though it would last January. The passive, playing possom Liberal tactics will have to change.

http://farnwide.blogspot.com/2009/07/something-to…

And explain too why 54% of Canadians think this country, AND the Government running it, are headed in the RIGHT direction.

Seems to me it is YOU who are offside with most Canadians, not Harper.