Van Looney slips a cog

Con House Leader and robust member of the burger-of-the-month club, Peter Van Loan, is not well known for his civility in the kinder, gentler Con regime up on Parliament Hill. He is better known for spewing invective and insults at any one who dares to ask a question of Canada's Greatest Government(TM), even if the question is directed at someone else. His most recent target was MP Bob Rae.

During Question Period on June 4, Bobby had the audacity to ask why the PM (praise be his name), Homeland Security Czar Stockie Day and the former Minster of Foreign (and I suppose, Domestic...) Affairs, Max Bernier, refused to meet with the parliamentary committee set up to discuss Max's misunderstanding of what constitutes national security and confidentiality. I am sure that Peter would have responded in a civil way (yea, sure) except that Rae prefaced his question by quoting the PM. According to Rae, the PM said in a throne speech in 2006, that: "No aspect of responsible government is more fundamental than having the trust of citizens....It is time for accountability."

How dare you quote our exalted PM, blurts Pete. He is a deity to be revered... not quoted, he screams, with Burger King drool dripping from the side of his mouth. He then slagged the Canadian system of government by saying; "Here we go with another kangaroo court, Mr. Speaker."

Hey Pete. It was a good question. Why not answer it? And do you have such a low opinion of all Commons Committees or just the ones not run by Cons?

Nominee for Doofus-of-the-decade

If I were David Warren, the seer in seer-suckers and three-times-per-week columnist for the Ottawa Citizen, I would be a bit ashamed of my ignorance.

His recent piece on Forgettable Men was a shot at everyone except himself. Some of the shots were deserved; others, like his comment that "...Liberals in power have been bad news for Canada, since 1963," were sadly over the top.

Warren uses his column to find an excuse for the bone-head Maxie Bernier by slanting the story onto the backs of Liberals. Who cares why Bernier was dumped, asks Warren. "I care," he answers his own question. Why does he care? Is it because state confidential documents were let loose? NO. Was it because Harper had knowledge of the situation all the while he abused the opposition who asked about it? NO. It was because the scandal... err, misunderstanding, could result in the failure of Harper to win a majority government and maybe let the big bad Liberals back in power. OOOOhhh. How scary is that, Davie?

While I would be the last person to say that the Liberals have been squeaky clean, to say that the have been bad news for Canada since 1963, as does Davie, is a bit of a nose-stretcher. The Liberals have been good for this country... better, I dare say, than the GST-loving, NAFTA-failing, don't care about anything but winning, Conservatives have been.

Lying' Brian, Joe Who, Flash Campbell and Harpo. These must be Warrens heroes.

There is a train out of town at 6 AM, Davie. We would all appreciate if you were on it