Apropos.

Joe was mine, til the time that I found him
Raising tax, getting attacked
Then Bri came along, led us strong for a while
The land he screwed, and that died too

Don't know if I will, but until I can find me
A tory man who can lead less insanely
I'll stay what I am
Conservative Man

Had to here, sticking up for the crazies
Bulding jails, Senate fails
Stockwell free, I could post with my real name
A winning plan, hot as Rand

Don't know if I will, but until I can find me
A big blue tent, with agendas aired plainly
I'll stay what I am
Conservative Man

I'm not a member of either party and I won't be voting for either party so please don't get all "you forgot to mention what the conservatives".

Your name is rude.

Too often, Canadians just don't know what our current government's agenda is. Harper seems to operate under the assumption the less we know the better.

That's not to say it won't be tried, but there is an obvious comeback.

If it takes, it takes. If it doesn't, well I'm on to try to manufacture some other new phrase for posterity.

Also thanks for explaining how it is that Harper thought there were no Canadian flags at the press release announcing the coalition, since it was so secret. I know you guys don't like the media, but sometimes it can turn secret things into wide-open public things, just by turning on a TV or picking up a newspaper.

I know you`re trying to link present gov`t policies to Bush or Genghis Khan or whoever but the public won`t buy it. And why is Iggy trying to score points by promoting abortion availibility in poor countries ?

Actually, those reckless opportunists got together in the first place because our economy was fine, if we were going to have a recession we'd have had it by now, and all that we needed was to remove the right of women to take legal action when being discriminated against, and political parties to lose their per vote funding.

But you know, rewrite history in order to get in some really juicy insults..

Harper is starting to remind me of when Ceaucescu, during the 1989 uprising, went out onto a balcony and waved his hands for the crowd to be quiet, which worked every time until then. When it didn’t work that time the look of total befuddlement on his face was priceless. Maybe its possible that Harper is undergoing a similar experience.

I'm probably making this even more convoluted by trying to explain, but I have no personal judgment on the matter, just to be clear.

I don`t think we should forget Iggy`s first experience in policy making. It will be helpful in judging his future efforts.

And Michael Ignatieff's main interest in foreign aid is for it to increase the number of abortions.

What complete nonsense. Read Ignatieff's statements. Ignatieff clearly said that foreign aid meant to address women's health and childbirth in developing countries has to include the full spectrum of care, which includes access to contraception and safe abortions.

Now, tell me exactly what Harper's position is on money going to Planned Parenthood and similar organizations which promote contraception in developing countries? Will his position be the same as he has employed in Canada or will it differ? Ignatieff is trying to get answers to these questions.

Except for the last issue. He's very obviously playing politics with a very serious question there – the point of it is to make Harper look like a social conservative (despite the fact that he's done nothing socially conservative since he got into office). I would think things like access to contraception, and safe and sanitary hospital facilities for delivery, would be far more important on the whole for third-world maternal health than funding abortion. There's certainly absolutely no proof I've seen that the Conservatives are at all opposed to contraception.

Over a third of the world doesn't have safe drinking water. The greatest global causes of death are respiratory disease, AIDS, TB, and malaria. Kids work on sugar plantations because their parents won't have enough money to survive if they send the kids to school instead. And Michael Ignatieff's main interest in foreign aid is for it to increase the number of abortions. This obsession, this refusal to recognize that abortion is a controversial issue that involves multiple living human beings and that people can, at minimum, honestly disagree on, is where I part ways with liberals.

Access to information

You are really off the mark today…no conbot speaking points out yet?

On that note, when are the CPC bound by their constitution to conduct a review of the council and leader? Every 4 years?

I expect the wisdom of their decision (not so much Iggy, as the acclaimation) will be judged by their showing in the next election.