Ralph versus The Family

Raitt-gate continued on the Hill yesterday throughout Question Period, even after Lisa tried to deflect the issue by bawling to the press.  Some questions were never answered and some questioned were completely ignored.  Raitt, the Minister-for-all-things-sexy-and-radioactive, answered a question from Liberal Ralph Goodale about the current state of the isotope shortfall by telling Goodale that the problems in Chalk River were really his.  Ralph answered this with the following comment: "the minister cannot give the numbers, and clearly she cannot tell the truth either.”

Well the government benches exploded in righteous indignation and Con Alpha-male Tom Lukiwski (he is the Alpha-male on the left in the picture) demanded that Ralph withdraw his comment. When the Speaker did not demand an immediate retraction from Goodale, Lukiwski made this ominous threat, "One way or the other, Mr. Speaker, I will guarantee the House the member for Wascana will apologize."

I recommend that Goodale not walk alone to a rooming house on Sparks Street, if you get my drift.

You remember Lukiwski, don't you? He reluctantly apologized in 2008 for this little quip caught on tape in 1991: "Let me put it to you this way -- there's As and Bs. The As are guys like me. The Bs are homosexual faggots with dirt under their fingernails that transmit diseases." At the time, the Liberal MP who called for Lukiwski to do the right thing and resign was none other than-- wait for it-- Ralph Goodale.

Who says that dingos have short memories?