Patronage by the ton a la Harper

148 pork barrel appointments by the master of hypocrisy
in the weeks leading up to his planned violation of his fixed term law.

Rock em sock em politicos

Wouldn't want to condone violence in the media or anything, but this is funny.

Harper's Agenda in his own context

Here is a copy of the speech Harper gave as the then vice-president of the National Citizens Coalition, to a June 1997 Montreal meeting of the Council for National Policy, a right-wing U.S. think tank. It's very clear and very explicit about where he stands and why.

Insider Conservativism

A very interesting small c-conservative analysis of Harper's sold soul.

Harper sees Dem Win in US

So we're getting set to re-elect a man who is moving the country backward, a man who represents everything but progressive thought, an unprincipled deregulating ideologue while the Americans are perched on an abyss of their own making, having given (or at least having let the Bush League steal) two mandates. Harper wasn't given a mandate by the Canadian people in the last election, since two thirds of Canadians voted against him, this time his poll numbers haven't climbed more than a few percentage points and no matter how smarmy or nasty he gets he can't get Canadians to trust him. Leadership the Cons call it.

Harper's privateering agenda

If this man gets a majority, his deeply embedded convictions that much of the Canadian government should be 'privatized' will come to pass. Of course, he doesn't mean private, what he means is corporatized. These conservatives are corporate socialists.
The idea that they are free enterprisers is absurd, corporations are not free enterprises, they are the antithesis of freedom, they destroy individual enterprise, they are legal fictions, they have no conscience to bind them to the law or to the public good. Much like Harper himself.

Okay Dion

The Jewish question of 9/11 which you hope to put behind you and so win the advance poll Judeo-fundamentalist vote is an equation for which I have much personal history which might seem to nuance me towards your sentiment, and yet I know too much about gangster capitalism and the alternative Jewish reality of Rothstein and Lansky but even more importantly Baron Rothschild and Averill Harriman via Prescott Bush to doubt that dark and even darker events actually occurred on 9/11 under Dick Cheney's Blackwater command. And I expect a Canadian Liberal to say so. Stand up and be counted Stephane. This is the real equation. The Jews are like all of us, corrupt and less corrupt individual by individual, and yes certainly, as a community they are nothing but a consequence of personal choices and so not guilty as a people of anything but self-preservation, a closing of ranks, a xenophobia of need for common cause, a flurry of events burying history in ash.