December 5, 2008
Absence of Bailout Brings Liberal Coup In
Canada
I’m not joking. This isn’t hyperbole.
Liberals in Canada are staging an actual
political coup to unseat the government,
using as an excuse the fact that governing
Conservatives are denying the country a
bailout.
The public treasury is to liberals what
heroin is to junkies. Never underestimate
the lengths to which they will go to get
their fix – even if it means staging a
political coup to overthrow a democratically
elected First World government, which also
happens to be America’s largest trading
partner.
Only a month ago, Canada re-elected Prime
Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative Party
to a near-majority with 143 seats in a 308
seat parliament. The next highest number of
votes (77 seats) went to the Liberal Party –
which has been parked at the trough for so
long that it has been branded “Canada’s
Natural Governing Party”.
Harper’s electoral message was clear: Proven
leadership for troubled economic times. The
Liberals offered up a candidate who
primarily pandered to the all-important
Canadian constituencies of polar bears and
artists. He was so lame that even the media
couldn’t bring itself to endorse him, which
is the canary in the coal mine for a
Liberal.
In the last week of the campaign, when
parties are typically expected to max out
the charge card on handouts to bribe voters
with their own money, Harper said that
little would be forthcoming. He still won.
But why would liberals let a little thing
like an electoral rout get in the way of
victory? A month after the election, the
Liberals and NDP socialists have decided
that it’s time to shove the designated
driver out the door and take the wheel.
What set these sensitive souls off this
time? Well, Harper said last week that there
will be no outright bailout beyond his
ongoing tax cutting efforts, and he decided
that political parties should forgo the
funding they’re getting from taxpayers until
such time as the economy improves.
Liberals called this latter move “mean
spirited”. The audacity of denying Liberal
hands the comforting, familiar warmth and
shelter of the cash register drawer during
the dead of winter!
The Liberals had a crackerjack fundraising
scheme for several years, until it was
revealed that they were laundering taxpayer
funds into the pockets of their
party-friendly donors and pals. Now, like a
juice-monkey cut off from his steroid
supply, they have no game.
Liberals are hoping that a parliamentary
vote on December 8 will install them in
power, propped up by the socialists and
Quebec separatists. And power is the only
thing all these factions have in common –
besides a pathological addiction to other
people’s money.
Normally, even when a government falls on a
vote of confidence, an election is called
immediately – because without a mandate from
the people, it smacks too much of an
unelected dictatorship.
This coup essentially ranks the Canadian
Liberals above Venezuelan despot Hugo
Chavez, on the corruption scale. Chavez may
have recently failed in his referendum to
eliminate presidential term limits, but he
at least realizes that he has to send it
back to the voters.
The Canadian Liberals aren’t even going to
do that. They have said that they won’t
waste any more money on an election after
they take power – despite taking power
precisely so they can get to “work” wasting
more money. Under the backroom coup deal,
they will have free reign to defile the
country as they see fit for a minimum of 18
months without having to worry about a pesky
election.
The liberal mainstream Canadian media
(pardon the surfeit of redundancy in this
phrase), which hates Harper because they’re
so overtly biased that he often just ignores
them, has assumed the usual position:
The Globe and Mail,
Canada’s national newspaper, headlines:
“’Four Wise Men’ Would Show Coalition The
Way”. Naturally, they’re referring to four
prominent benchers – three Liberal and one
socialist – whose best years of their lives
were spent waterboarding themselves with
public coinage. I have a better name for
these guys – party hacks. Which is why I’ll
never find my byline in the Globe and
Mail.
Compare that to the same newspaper’s
language in 2005, when the opposition
Conservatives were considering a
non-confidence vote on a Liberal government
over the fiscal scandal which was such a
blatant cash grab – even for them – that it
eventually wiped out their government:
“Tories, Bloc overpower Liberals –
Opposition MPs managed to force a motion
through the House of Commons Tuesday
demanding the fragile Liberal minority
government step down.”
Poor “fragile” Liberals, always being
bullied by those mean, “overpowering”,
“forceful” Conservatives.
At the time, Harper not only abided by
Liberal pleas to hold off on any
non-confidence vote for another half-year,
but he made it clear that the public would
determine government via vote: "The Liberal
culture of entitlement goes on. The public
must be given a chance to put it to an end.”
Ah, the good old days. Now, if the Liberals
have their way, voters won’t have any say
about this unelected government. At least
not for another 18 months.
The Liberals are talking now about a
$30-billion bailout. Canada already has a
perpetual bailout and inherent safety net in
the form of ample social programs. Anything
more is redundant.
Harper’s best option? Adjourn parliament
until after Christmas to pre-empt a
non-confidence vote and give these power
addicts some time to detox. If they still
don’t relent, call an election so the voting
public can wipe them off the face of
Canada’s political map.