heck of a job bushie!

if you missed der realestaten Untergangen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNmcf4Y3lGM

Back to the topic, liberals are so much open about faults and areas for improvement in contrast to conservatives. Conservatives rarely admit or reveal anything of the sort even when proven to be utterly wrong (Bush economics) or caught with their hands in the cookie jar. Case in point, didn’t Bush say something recently like his biggest regret was that he believed the WMD intelligent he received which later turned out to be A HUGE MISTAKE MADE BY OTHER PEOPLE, instead of just coming out and admitting that his judgement on that issue was incredibly bad and that he mislead Congress in the accuracy of the information…

That said, my gawd man, isn’t all this petty bickering driving you nuts yet?

I’m sure you’re regularly critical of Liberals in your country, liberals in general give a person so much reason to be critical :-)

If the government loses it’s confidence vote in January, how long until the coalition gets its act together with a decent fiscal stimulus package? I have zero confidence that the coalition could put together a fiscal package that would look any better than Dion’s ridiculous performance yesterday.

But, instead of cementing the opposition I bet it will actually start to crumble as the debate drags on, as the government makes fiscal concessions that undermine the new opposition coalition’s supposed reasons for being, and the public (me included) absorbs what is sure to be effective governement propoganda.

While the borking might have been acceptable for the circumstances of the day (i.e. rash actions by an opposition coalition who do not seem to be capable of putting together a viable alternative fiscal stimulus package any faster than the current government) it has set a bad precedent for Westminster Parliaments (England, Australia, Canada) – a precedent that did not exist before except in banana republics. It seems we’ve devolved to banana republic sensibilities, and we don’t even have any bananas. Maybe I’ll turn on the radio tonight and hear that the army has intervened for krist sake. Pathetic.

Parliament is adjourned until a new budget is presented on or about January 26. As the budget will have to satisfy all factions or else the government will fall, I expect lots of pork. That includes big tax cuts, even though big tax cuts are not yet on the table. It all will contribute to big new government deficits. The “conservatives” were already sliding down a slope of fiscal irresponsibility, we are now gathering speed towards a cliff edge come January with all parties contributing to the frenzy of throwing fiscal simulii at problems that have not even been properly defined yet…

Enk, you are right shcb was cheerleading for the economy and the ability of America to fund wars ad nauseum, I don’t think his cheerleading has stopped even with the reality of your fiscal / economic crisis / great recession.

I think our Governor General really had no other option. If the Liberal Party had a decent leader, who could speak english and wasn’t totally rejected in October’s election, I think the coalition would have been given a chance by her Excellency.

This leader they have, Dion, is a big screw-up. They didn’t even get their tape to the networks in time yesterday for their rebuttal to the Prime Minister’s address to the nation. And when it finally got to the networks (about an hour late!), it looked like it was a video on YouTube shot by a 10 year old.

Very, very entertaining though.

PS – You hear me, shcb, bashing the Liberal Party of Canada because their current leader is a tool. It’s called loving your country first, your favourite political party second. Just thought I would point that out to you :)

shcb
weren’t you also the guy who went on and on about how great the economy was doing over the summer? and besides its all the Dems fault blah blah blah… Oh yeah, lets ‘debate’ the responsibility for the bush-conomy. Totally non-partisan-like. Totally objective, fact based, analytical…
right…

The SB 190 didn’t seem to have any pork in it, it was long, 119 pages or so and very detailed but everything seemed to be related to the subject at hand. Of course there were things in it the opposition didn’t like or it would have passed. But the point is many of the things people are blaming the Bush administration and Republicans for not doing were in that bill.

NL,

I’ll throw in my two cents worth. Asking for a plan from the auto makers was primarily just a reaction to all the negatives congress got from the public. When Congress gives out money in any amount there is usually a bunch of strings attached, they have given you the plan, they don’t ask for a plan. Secondly, for the most part the financial problems were caused by government, to a certain degree this was just congress paying for its screw up. The auto problems are caused by private companies and private unions so the approach is different. I thought it was a little silly myself, it reminded me of a homework assignment. Congress sent the auto makers home to come up with a plan, but if congress doesn’t like the plan they won’t give them the money. Did you notice the plan they came up with included developing electric cars but not substantial restructuring of union contracts? It’s like a teacher asking for a students opinion on a test and the student knowing what the teachers wants so he writes that down even though that is contrary to his opinion.

Jayson,

As I said before, I’m all for giving the other side its due, so why don’t all you guys start bashing Democrats and I’ll continue bashing Democrats, then we can all start getting along.

It perfectly illustrates how group think, entrenched powers and media talking heads arrogantly ridicule the intelligent analysts onto the sidelines – to everyone’s peril.

It is simply a brilliant find.