Under Rug Swept

The new story about the Conservatives giving up on killing the long-gun registry is another example of how they are the party of retail politics at its most basic. It's all about the show, the presentation, the big headline. It's never about the facts, the policies, or the small print.

It is extremely sad that the Conservatives were pushing this button (which may be their third? fourth? attempt) since the long-run registry "was part of the evidence that ultimately led to the arrest and conviction of two men" in the Mayerthorpe tragedy.

However, every day brings a new challenge for the Tories, and lately that challenge has become a game of deciding what's in it for me and how many times can we announce it?

The Tories managed to squeeze out a number of headlines when they decided to introduce a Senate bill that would gut the gun registry. But now, there is no plan to vote on this magnificently Tory blue bill. They'd rather shove this bill out the back door than confront the situation tete-a-tete.

As all of Canada has now seen, they are willing to transfer any item from their list of priorities in exchange for another day with control of the House of Commons. It's not necessarily a bad thing, to be flexible, when running the country. However, it's a different story, when you hear from certain people who continuously state that Liberals will say anything to be in power, but do these people know it is the Tories who will do anything to be in power?

As a Canuck recently said on youtube, "give your balls a tug". Or maybe they should grow a pair.

Harponomics

This is seriously on the conservative.ca website still. Still - and after all we've been through together! There are nuggets of proverbial dog doo all over that site. But what else would you expect other than a self-gratifying self-assessed pat-on-the-Tory back?

So maybe we should take the liberty to update it, so here, I'll give it a go.

The Conservative Record:

+ Highest unemployment rate in over 25 years.

+ Up to 600,000 jobs will be lost around the end of 2009.

+ National Debt has not been racked up this fast since the last time they were at the helm.

+ Secretly planning "surprise deficits" since the despised "surprise surpluses" Liberals had year after year were strategically wiped out.

+ Harper works harder each and every day to keep the conservative alliance together long enough in an attempt to fulfill his life long dream of destroying all opposition parties, especially those Liberals with no moral compass (This item is currently on hiatus.)

I'd love to continue, but I need to go recharge my Garmin MoralityMate 6000GT GPS.