I was an Atomic Robot Jungle Vixen!

Ha HA! Harper is barely sworn in as prime minister and he's already horribly disappointing his supporters and wallowing in hypocrisy! The same man who had lots to say when Belinda Stronach left the Tories and crossed the floor the ruling Liberals landing a nice little cabinet post at the same time had no issues with giving a cabinet post to a former Liberal who crossed the floor to the ruling Conservatives just two weeks after the election. At least Stronach had an excuse, not being comfortable with the stance of her former party on same-sex marriage and other social issues. What excuse does David Emerson have? There are a lot of long-time, long-suffering Conservatives sitting on the back benches who aren't going to be happy with that.
Then there is the non-elected Michael Fortier who was appointed to the senate so he could be given a cabinet position. Harper had criticized the appointment of senators for years and has said he would only appoint those who have been democratically elected. Well, it didn't take him long to not follow through on that.
Of course they are spinning this like crazy, the Tory MPs are standing behind their man and rationalizing this like there's no tomorrow, and small-L liberals are enjoying ourselves thinking back to the "uniter, not a divider" who wasn't elected but still became president of our southern neighbours a few years back and aren't surprised by a thing here.

posted by Tabby at 2/08/2006 02:45:00 a.m.

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