One Last Time

Before I close the blog on the whole Boo-linda the Robbing Peter to Pay Paul theme (apart from a fleeing reference now and then) I want to quote Christie Blatchford’s column from today’s Globe and Mail (subscription required):

Belinda Stronach had barely made her debut as a Liberal yesterday when like-minded callers were pre-emptively phoning Toronto radio stations to bemoan the sexist nature of anyone who might in the ensuing days dare to label the woman a political whore.

Oh, how very cute, and how very familiar: It is never enough for the Liberal Party of Canada, its henchmen or supporters, to let the people decide what they will make of a given situation. The good Liberal always attempts to dictate the very language of what will, and what won’t constitute the parameters of fair comment and reasonable discussion thereafter.

But let us, just this once, dispense with those niceties.

Ms. Stronach changed parties on the very eve of the most important vote of Paul Martin’s government, and slipped straight into the warm waters of cabinet—in the position, no less, as the minister in charge of democratic renewal and of implementing the recommendations of the Gomery inquiry.

As an aside, this is surely akin to putting the hen in charge of the fox house.

Ms. Stronach has zero experience in government; little in opposition; none in dealing with the mandarins of the civil service and the way that they can be leaned on and otherwise persuaded to fall into line with ignoble government aims; and isn’t even bilingual. Why, yes indeed, who better to ride herd over those well-practised, and in the main French-speaking, scoundrels from the Quebec wing of the party, Ottawa, and environs?

But true to Liberal form, Ms. Stronach apparently already believes she has somehow begun to clean things up, just by her presence. Listen to what she said yesterday: “Let me say I’m very proud to undertake this role, to bring greater ethics, because without ethics, that’s the foundation, that’s our moral fiber.” Huh? How has she done anything there but demonstrate her own feeble grasp of that other official language, English?

Blatchford goes on to ask what changed from last week to this week? Indeed, it certainly wasn’t the CPC, Stephen Harper, or Paul Martin and his Libranos.

And Judy Sgro, no one owes a brass tack or an apology either to the Liberal Party or to Canadian women for calling Boo-linda on her crass political whoremongering but as a Canadian citizen, and a documented taxpayer, I demand a refund and an apology from every Liberal that benefited in any way shape or form from the Liberal larceny that robbed the public purse in Adscam to further their own crass personal political whoremongering and regardless of their gender.