Comments on: Gary Doer: a good pick for US Ambassador, but an obvious Harper attempt to deflect yesterday’s patronage binge

By: DCR

DCR — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 01:01:54 +0000

Anyone who thinks that Harper should leave the Senate seats open for the Liberals to fill in the future is out to lunch. I lean towards the Conservative, as a voter. However that doesn’t mean I want ALL Conservative Senators. Some of you would have the entire Senate Liberal. That amounts to an appointed dictatorship. It is good to support your own team, but let us not forget about democracy in the mean time. Sheesh!

By: Geordie Tom

Geordie Tom — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:31:51 +0000

The LPC has been demonising Harper for years. Anybody who would be swayed by this has already been.It seems to me that the way to regain power is to do it on policy initiatives, not by repeated name-calling. Harper can do what he wants. Most people don’t care. They believe that whoever is in power will do the same thing.

By: Joanne (T.B.)

Joanne (T.B.) — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:23:03 +0000

So the alternative would have been for him to leave those seats empty and wait for the Liberals to get back into power and fill them with their cronies instead?

Yeah, that would have been ever so much smarter. I wonder why he didn’t do that. Hmmmmm…

By: Jon Pertwee

Jon Pertwee — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:26:10 +0000

@Joanne (T.B.), Harper is the patronage king and you just have the egg of hypocrisy on your face. You guys wear it like a natural skin.

By: AnnieS

AnnieS — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:57:48 +0000

Stephen Harper is an empty man, a caricature, a manipulater, a joke, a man of no ethics, no honesty, no pride. He thinks if he gets his picture taken with a soldier it makes him strong and capable. He thinks if he chooses a decent man and gets his picture taken with him it makes him decent. Or perhaps he thinks it deflect Canadian’s attention from the nauseating senate story. Gary Doer was not chosen because Stephen Harper thinks it will be good for Canadians (which it probably will), he was chosen because Stephen Harper thinks it will be good for Stephen Harper.

By: Christian

Christian — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:54:24 +0000

Scott, do you really believe harper thinks that little of Canadians? Is he really that delusional?

And Joanne, way to tow the party line. “But but but, the Liberals did it too!!” Did you follow Scott’s second link? Here is part of what it says-

“Despite the fine work of many individual senators, the upper house remains a dumping ground for the favoured cronies of the prime minister.

But that was then and this is now, and Harper seems to have no problem making sure that “dumping ground” is filled with his friends. Among yesterday’s appointees are Harper’s former communications aide, his election campaign chair, and the president of the Conservative Party of Canada.”

Instead of deflecting, Joanne, why not hold your leader accountable?

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:51:47 +0000

Joanne, his party isn’t in power…yours is. If it was wrong for the Libs to do it, its wrong for the Cons to do it. Suck it up and stop trying to excuse the blatant hypocrisy.

By: Joanne (T.B.)

Joanne (T.B.) — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:21:44 +0000

So how do you feel about rewarding cronies? Should it be stopped? Do you think your party needs to address that problem?