Sunday, June 05, 2011

Morton Is Wrong: Dissident Page Rawks

Grandstanding does work. The babilicious Brigette DePape did it and she's become internationally famous and probably refusing more job offers in the last day than James Morton gets in a year. Jack Layton has been doing it by flirting with separatists and with nonsense talk about how he has the power to bring down the government, and the last poll out had him at 34% and the LPoC at 15%. Meanwhile Bob Rae got one line in the papers after he lisped weakly that the Tories throne speech indicated a certain complacency. In our current political circumstance nuance is out, and energy (whether from the Right or the Left) is what's playing. If anything, the LPoC needs a new RatPack, but noting the age lines on most of their current caucus, I wonder if such a thing is likely.

Please note that James Morton is a sharp guy that's not often wrong. But he is today  And you can read his post by clicking anywhere on this post.

4 comments:

sharonapple88 said...

I take it you're not a fan of the all-new civil House of Commons. ;)

Peter said...

I'm not sure what either you or Morton mean by "works". If it means challenging Harper's legislative agenda in the court of public opinion and eventually displacing him, I have to go with Morton. If it means getting three successive posts with foxy pics on the site of an obviously smitten progressive blogger, then I agree with you--she left Rae gasping for air in her dust.

bigcitylib said...

And how many jobs has Michael Moore offered YOU lately, Peter?

Peter said...

Heh. Hey, I certainly don't begrudge you your enjoyment of the exploding heads and prigs on this side. But I just can't figure out why so many on the left who hated Harper from the get-go figure the way to defeat him is to have a little internal competition to see who can prove they really, really, really, really hate him the most.