Montreal Simon: Breaking: The Harper Cons Prorogue the Budget
Uh oh. In my last post I said that I wasn't sure whether Oily Joe Oliver knew what he was doing.But it turns out the situation is even worse than I thought.One moment he's claiming we have nothing to...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and My Horrible Majority Nightmare
It was a horrible nightmare. There was Stephen Harper in the musty basement of his House of Pain.Chained to a chair by the young fanatics running the PMO, to prevent their beloved master from blowing...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Issue that Will Destroy Him
Gosh. What a difference a day makes. Yesterday I wrote about that nightmarish Ipsos Reid poll that suggested that Stephen Harper had risen from his political grave, and was heading for another...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. - Paul Rosenberg writes about the high-priced effort to undermine public institutions and the collective good in the U.S. And Paul Krugman highlights how the...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: The Humiliation of Jason Kenney and the Desperation of the Cons
Yesterday I wrote about how Jason Kenney was embarrassed, when he claimed in a CTV interview that the government would use budget cuts to easily balance the budget. But wouldn't touch the rainy day...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Fall of the Oily Messiah
For almost a decade he was able to fool countless Canadians into believing that he was the Oily Messiah.The Great Economist Leader who would lead us to prosperity down the tarry road to Greater...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. - Jim Stanford reminds us that any drama as to whether Canada’s budget will be balanced this year is entirely of the Cons’ own making through pointless tax...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: Joe Oliver, Stephen Harper, and the Baloney Cons
As you probably know, I've got a sinking feeling that Oily Joe Oliver is not going to save us from our present economic predicament.Not when he helped create the oily apocalypse. Not when he doesn't...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. - Doug Saunders observes that Syriza’s strong election victory may signal a sea change as to whether austerity is inevitable, while Adnan Al-Daini notes that the...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: The Con Clowns and the Terrorist Menace
Well it was obvious that Stephen Harper and his Con regime would try to portray the video of that deranged Ottawa gunman, as proof that they were right all along.Michael Zehaf-Bibeau wasn't a mentally...
View ArticleCowichan Conversations: Rafe: Joe Oliver says fracking is safe, so it must be
Rafe has seen the light! Nice to see that Rafe Mair has come to his senses and is now backing the corporate toadies, aka the Harper Cabinet and the light headed Finance Minister Joe Oliver aka...
View Articledaveberta.ca - Alberta Politics: Prentice re-election budget tough on...
OTTAWA, ONTARIO “If Alberta can deliver a budget, why can this minister of finance not,” Liberal MP Scott Brison asked of Finance Minister Joe Oliver, who was absent from the House of Commons today....
View ArticleMontreal Simon: The Return of Joe Oliver and the Latest Con Scam
Well as you may have heard Joe Oliver went missing from the House of Commons for almost a month. And on the few days when he did turn up, he seemed as Ralph Goodale described him, both "puzzled and...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: The BC Oil Spill and the Con Clown James Moore
It couldn't have been a more monstrous or absurd sight.A day after a ship leaked about 3,000 litres of bulk oil into Vancouver's beautiful English Bay, And a few hours after the province's premier and...
View ArticleBabel-on-the-Bay: Legislating Ideology.
It is when you listen to the federal Finance Minister Joe Oliver that you realize what a breath of fresh air the late Finance Minister Jim Flaherty must have been in Mr. Harper’s Cabinet of Inadequate...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: The NDP’s Brilliant Response to the Con Clown Joe Oliver
As you know, the thought that the old oil pimp Joe Oliver is Canada's Minister of Finance keeps me awake at night, with my wallet under my mattress.Because I don't think he knows what he's doing, or...
View ArticlePolitical Eh-conomy: The Conservatives’ balanced budget legislation: Silly...
I wrote up the Conservatives’ new balanced budget law for Ricochet. In short, the law is really silly in terms of economics, but simply pointing out its economic stupidity is not enough, because the...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: Joe Oliver and the Con Plan to Kill Government
OK. I realize that Joe Oliver doesn't know what's he's doing. And that the budget he will finally deliver tomorrow was written in the PMO.But you'd think the Cons would have stopped promoting his...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: Joe Oliver and the Ghastly Cinderella Budget Show
Well let's put it this way, his PMO handlers did their best to turn it into a glamorous photo-op, but it wasn't exactly Cinderella slipping on her dainty glass slipper.And it wasn't pretty.It was just...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: The Harper Regime and the Con Artist Budget
It won't happen of course, not in this corrupted Harperland, where decency goes to die.But if there was any justice, Boss Harper, Oily Joe Oliver, and the rest of the Con mob would be in a police...
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