The pyjama games are over, but the party has just begun. Or so the NDP seems to be thinking, amid much back-slapping over their weekend filibuster, which saw Parliamentarians quaffing Scotch and chomping pizza into the wee hours of Sunday morning as they expounded on the pros and cons of back-to-work legislation in the Canada Post dispute.
For the left, the outcome represented a symbolic victory for the NDP, who “stood up to a bulldozer without getting crushed” as the Star’s Tim Harper put it. You would think that the party had actually won their fight, rather than merely forestalled the inevitable.
On the right, Prime Minister Stephen Harper correctly deemed the drama unnecessary. The tactic employed -the filibuster -was akin to whacking a fly with the proverbial hammer. Federally, the filibuster has traditionally been used for far weightier matters: the Nisga’a Treaty in 1999, the design of the Canadian flag in 1964, the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline debate in 1956 and the Reciprocity bill in 1911. At the provincial level, the Ontario NDP memorably filibustered the Progressive Conservatives over their Toronto amalgamation bill in 1997.
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Layton – a legend in his own mind and at the taxpayers expense. I see that again, Jacko and Chow are living in government subsidized housing, this time on Sussex Dr.
It’s going to be a long four years UV.
The good news, Jack is that we finally have a majority government so they only thing Jack can do is make a lot of noise on behalf of New France.
Funny, government subsidized housing wasn’t an issue when Harper and his family lived there — different standards for different folks depending on hyper-partisan viewpoint I guess.
Jacko also lived in public housing with his wife in Toronto while pulling in two wages and only moved when the public found out and complained. Of course he’s entitled to living at Sussex Drive. Sooner or later, hopefully sooner, will have to find and pay for his own home.
I don’t think UV was making a real issue about it this time, SL. More of a shot at Layton’s sleazy entitled to his non-entitlements until he gets caught past. ‘Union Jack’, no disrepect to Britain intended, makes me feel the same way as listening and watching Obama’s former mouthpiece Robert Gibbs used to. An overpowering urge to have a shower.
More opportunities for him and the NDP to make fools of themselves in public. Mr Layton doesn’t realize the danger of the greater exposure of the NDP by the press. Enjoy the ride Mr. Layton as it will likely have an abrupt and unpleasant end.
mid island mike
Re: “Mr Layton doesn’t realize the danger of the greater exposure of the NDP by the press.”
Indeed he doesn’t, Mike. If I have it right this new exposure is going to harm not only the federal NDP but their provincial cousins as well. Call it a “target rich environment”.
Jack! seems to think that any publicity is better than no publicity. This may be true for washed-up Hollywood starlets; for politicians, not so much.
If Jack! wants to give the MSM a never-ending Parliamentary Gong Show, they’re going to demand it from him. And when he can’t deliver on the next headlines, they’ll rip him apart.
Popcorn, anyone?
Jack Layton is an ass-hat: “One whose head is so far up their rear end it could pass for a hat.”
Re: “One whose head is so far up their rear end it could pass for a hat.”
That’s not correct. It would be more descriptive to say he is in “deep kak” and indeed he is. He reminds me of a tapeworm and we all know what happens to them as we catch on.
“I know” — that’s very cruel — but it’s how I feel and more to the point it’s what they appear to be. They feed on the host until they eventually kill it which they have accomplished in nearly every country they have ever gained power. Then they exclaim (as the host dies) ‘we didn’t do that — they did’ as they all rush for the exit trying to beat the lynch mob and escape.
Give me a break. They are to be disregarded and fired as soon as we get the opportunity. They endanger us all. Call it the political “Sergeant’s Vetscription Sure Shot Liquid Wormer” as we “knock them for six”. They deserve everything they are going to receive.
And in due course they will.
Or we could also call him ” Union Entitlements Jack “, so much for being for the little guys like the small business little guys who where the ones being damaged by an extended strike !