Dilettante
Babble on.
I don't get it (ht:Bourque). Belinda pulls and pulls to get the Alliance and PC's together. She campaigns for the leadership. She wins a squeaker in her riding, based mostly upon the fact that she's a local girl with a fresh face and a fresh outlook in a fresh party.
Then she goes and makes herself look like a slimeball opportunist like Scott Brison.
No wonder people think politicians are all a bunch of liars and crooks, when they can switch sides without batting an eye, and take a cabinet post too.
Stronach was elected a Conservative. She should have had at least Keith Martin's decency to sit as an independent until she could win the Liberal nomination in Aurora. Ugly.
Babble off.
Update: Calgary Grit has the laugh-out-loud funniest take on this whole affair:
I really have no clue what this means. I don't think anyone does. However, I am prepared to offer a preview of today's question period in another round of virtual QP.
The honourable member from Central Nova
Peter MacKay: Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Human Resources Development Minister. Belinda...I thought we had something...how can you do this to me?
Heheheh...nice.
Upperdate: While I'm not the biggest fan of Peter MacKay, I cringed when I read this. Breaking up is never easy, but to have it play out in the press like this must be completely humiliating.
Not to be too much of a stick-in-the-mud here, but if I'd spared a thought for MacKay, I probably wouldn't have found CG's mock Hansard quote quite so funny.
posted by Babbling Brooks @ 11:16 AM
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Ugly says it all.
I've just finished reading Belinda's statement to the house. I have to admit, she makes a couple of points that hit home with me. Not enough for me to agree with what she's done. All this accomplishes is the (very probable) propping up of a government that should be turfed out on it's collective behind!
"I probably wouldn't have found CG's mock Hansard quote quite so funny."
Damian, what on earth has happened to you? You are turning into a rank sentimentalist. You ole softy you...;)
TH, I seem to recall you still harbour fond feelings for your ex. Think back to your own breakup. Imagine it all playing out in front of the cameras.
Ha ha! Haaaaahaahhaha! *pointing finger and laughing*
Or maybe not.
Oh, I laughed out loud when I first read it - that's why I posted it. But remembering back to when I didn't have the best wife in the known universe, back to the last time I was unceremoniously dumped, kind of cut short the hilarity, y'know?
Love is the answer.
Now, what was the question?
Keep babblin'.
I actually did feel kind of bad for Peter today. He finds out a few hours before that she's leaving him and his party and didn't even bother talking things through with him first. That's pretty low. Margarete Wente had a pretty good comment on the MacKay angle in the Globe today.
And, to his credit, MacKay's saying the right things in the press today.
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