Charging the cell phone. It is 3:00am. The power is low. Its a Canadian phone. The power supply rested in a minority position.
Harper used about $300M dollars to get just over twenty seats. Is that $15M dollars per? All that coming from taxpayers. Oh that is punishment.
Harper shortened his promise of holding elections. He advocated and promised a four year term but took barely three. The majority of Canadian citizens are happy with political minorities. And after stating clearly that the parliament was dysfunctional, for the electorate to return another minority establishes a profound punishment.
Stephan Dion used up his dog points on this one. That grinding noise comes from the Liverals sharpening up the chopping axe. They want it super sharp. They huddle in their dark blue suits, adjusting their red ties to official choke mode. Gently waving a bespectacled professorial with a stunned expression into the conclave, they draw him in. Its punishment.
Every Canadian sourced radio or television outlet paraded a list of “experts”. Pontificating on the election results in authoritive monotone, party biased manikins launched their spin on the voting numbers. And the ideas. They may have an opinion that everyone knows, like reading between the lines of type on a Stop sign to expose the subtler meaning. Or they may espouse a viewpoint that makes you wonder on which planet the television program is made.
And don't you love that little message disclaimer that all these media manifestations pronounce. “The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the station.”
Like crap they are. The disclaimer camouflages the obvious bias that the media owner possesses. Its a pretense. Can you imagine that a Canwest/Global station would televise an opinion that Chapters bookstores violate the municipal codes concerning the dumping of garbage . No. The owner's wife owns the bookstores. Believing that the media empires do not hold political bias and agendas violates common sense, even the common sense of those not prone to the belief in conspiracies. And the line of opinions creates the suffering of punishment on those readers or viewers.
Oh we got one, two, three or four more years of this politico-media malaise. Despite the effect of Harper's statement regarding arts and the common man, he soldiers in the dim light of cornservatist thought. He said ordinary people don't care about the arts. And you should see the profound astonished reaction of the arts and music sector of Toronto. They are aghast. Horrified. Creatively horrified. Totally abominifried. He launched the haughty tart reactions of dozens of alleged artists upon the rest of uncaring Canadians.
Of course what Harper failed to appreciate is that while most Canadians don't really care all that much about arts and music, they given even less consideration for politics and politicians. Its an inferior value to Picasso or Fartalussi. About three am in a early morning's revelation, the Prime Minister will realize this. He's saying "God no, I is worth less than an artisté, ...and thus it will be his electric chair of the mind.
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Sometimes winning an election is not the greatest thing that can happen to you in this wild and crazy world and sometimes losing an election is nothing less than a golden opportunity.
For instance, Stephen Harper just spent $300 million of our very own tax dollars in another vain attempt to gain absolute dominion over our minds, our bodies, the remaining cash in our bank accounts and the remaining equity in our homes.
Why? Just look at the guy and listen to the guy. He's a neo-conservative. He wants to lord it over all other Canadians, tell us what to do, have us worship him, all the usual reasons neurotic people seek dominion over other people. He also wants to hand all our wealth over to his friends and supporters. That's a given.
Harper was desperately seeking a majority government where, as most Canadians don't seem to realize, the PM and a few of his buddies, if the buddies adequately suck up to the PM and kiss his ass sufficiently, get to do pretty well anything they can imagine --- with absolutely no checks and absolutely no balances involved. The final years of the Chrétien government demonstrate that fact of life and to this day, I haven't noticed any Liberal politicians headed off the jail. Have you?
Still, being a neo-conservative like George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, John McCain and Sarah Palin, you'd think Prime Minister Stephen Harper has got to be at least slightly concerned he's starting to looks just like a big, slow-moving dinosaur with a target painted on both of his sides. Then again, he might not be that smart. Most neo-cons are not, otherwise they would not be neo-cons.
Does anyone remember R.B. Bennett? He won a majority in 1930 - Great Depression time. No-one liked him very much and he handed over the government of Canada to Mackenzie King for a mere 18 years.
How about Bob Rae? In a stunning victory in 1990, he took over the Ontario government, just in time to get blamed for all the financial troubles of the Province and the world. I seem to recall the Rae government and almost the entire New Democratic Party (NDP) got wiped out in 1995, handing us over to the gentle ministrations of neo-con Mike Harris. It's been 13 years and I don't think the NDP has yet recovered.
Mr. Harper may regret his partial victory because this election has destroyed Stéphane Dion and now the Liberals are going to get another chance to promote a real leader with real intelligence and real charisma. A Trudeau, perhaps? A Rae? A Kennedy? There are many choices and it's hard to imagine the Liberals could possibly be as stupid a second time.
If the Liberals collectively have recently developed even the slightest intelligence, Mr. Harper may very well have just sealed his own fate.
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