if a government falls...
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... in the woods and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
well, we've heard all kinds of sounds coming out of the House of Commons -- the name is quite apropos in light of their behaviour as well -- in the last several months... there's the sound of so-called "honourable" Members of Parliament hurling insults across the floor during Question Period, the sound of our good ol' Prime Minister dithering his way through pre-election pork barrel promises, the near-slanderous caterwauling of the ever-vapid Leader of the *cough* Loyal Opposition, and the incessant thumping of the election war-drums... there's the sound of paper shuffling, of an inquiry commissioner's gavel banging, of numerous talking-heads on the evening news, and much partisan huffing-and-puffing...
and now finally they're gonna blow the government down...
there will be a lot of editorializing in the coming days, but i would definitely urge anyone and everyone who has a stake in this to really try to listen and get behind the rhetoric and find out what the issues are and who's doing what about them... i for one thought it important, despite my admitted distaste for their policies, to visit the Conservative Party's website just to see if i was missing something... i'm not at all inclined to vote based on the "devil you know versus the devil you don't know" principle, but even after checking out the website of the Prince of Darkness himself (KIDDING!), i really couldn't see anything substantive beyond the partisan platitudes...
is it too much to ask that, if you're so doggedly intent on bringing down a government and forming one of your own, to the point where you've done nothing in the past 17 months but kick and scream and jostle and jockey for another election, that you would at least take the time to flesh out your platform and offer the electorate some real options? for all the talk of him being a policy wonk at heart, Stephen Harper has shown nothing at all resembling political substance (his website profile should be titled "Leader Inaction" instead)... make no mistake, i would definitely like to give the Conservatives a fair chance at my one vote (meaningless as it may be), but what am i supposed to judge them on?
their chance to make some meaningful noise starts tomorrow...
... in the woods and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
well, we've heard all kinds of sounds coming out of the House of Commons -- the name is quite apropos in light of their behaviour as well -- in the last several months... there's the sound of so-called "honourable" Members of Parliament hurling insults across the floor during Question Period, the sound of our good ol' Prime Minister dithering his way through pre-election pork barrel promises, the near-slanderous caterwauling of the ever-vapid Leader of the *cough* Loyal Opposition, and the incessant thumping of the election war-drums... there's the sound of paper shuffling, of an inquiry commissioner's gavel banging, of numerous talking-heads on the evening news, and much partisan huffing-and-puffing...
and now finally they're gonna blow the government down...
there will be a lot of editorializing in the coming days, but i would definitely urge anyone and everyone who has a stake in this to really try to listen and get behind the rhetoric and find out what the issues are and who's doing what about them... i for one thought it important, despite my admitted distaste for their policies, to visit the Conservative Party's website just to see if i was missing something... i'm not at all inclined to vote based on the "devil you know versus the devil you don't know" principle, but even after checking out the website of the Prince of Darkness himself (KIDDING!), i really couldn't see anything substantive beyond the partisan platitudes...
is it too much to ask that, if you're so doggedly intent on bringing down a government and forming one of your own, to the point where you've done nothing in the past 17 months but kick and scream and jostle and jockey for another election, that you would at least take the time to flesh out your platform and offer the electorate some real options? for all the talk of him being a policy wonk at heart, Stephen Harper has shown nothing at all resembling political substance (his website profile should be titled "Leader Inaction" instead)... make no mistake, i would definitely like to give the Conservatives a fair chance at my one vote (meaningless as it may be), but what am i supposed to judge them on?
their chance to make some meaningful noise starts tomorrow...
You're going to be hearing a lot of big numbers in the next seven weeks. There will be promises of multi-billion-dollar tax cuts, multi-year spending programs and whopping surpluses far into the future. Before the electoral bidding begins, consider this: it costs 19 cents a day to feed a child in Africa.--------------------
-- CAROL GOAR, Toronto Star (2005/11/28)
posted by þΛųL jØŋαŦhΛŋ @ 02:45
1 Comments:
At 1:49 p.m.,
Anonymous said…
I found the policy section of their site quite thin as well. I just sent an email to a former colleague, asking if a "Blue Book" exists that sets out a more substantial argument for the CP's positions...or even says what they are.
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