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Is it just me, or is everybody getting sick of this crap? It's not enough that the Conservatives have been sending their backbenchers to the floor of the House in a never-ending stream of ignominy trying to get at Warren Kinsella, but to continue to make personal attacks in the SO 31s? You'd think one Speaker's Ruling would have been enough to discourage that kind of behaviour- apparently not.
Honestly, it's just exasperating. Do these nobs not realize hundreds of thousands of people are losing their jobs? I don't care how little you think of Ignatieff, this is the time where we need strong and focused governance, not a bunch of poo-flinging monkey screeching in the House. It's embarrassing. No small wonder that people get turned off from politics.
But hey, it's good to see the government has their priorities in order. Defend Kathy Shaidle in the House, check. Attack Warren Kinsella- a private citizen- incessantly, check. Pull the same partisan crap that ruined an honest man in Stéphane Dion, check. Prove the calibre of addle-brained nimrods occupying the government benches, check.
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Throw in his daily blog rants and it's clear, Kinsella is in no way "private".
He's fair game both on the blogs and the MSM and there's absolutely no reason that he shouldn't be addressed in the HOC given his position within the Liberal Party.
You declare yourself to be a centrist but your posts prove otherwise... Maybe you should check your premises' and start being a little more honest with yourself...
I'm quite well aware of his work with the Liberals- I'm a fan. That said, he's not an elected official, nor is he an employee of the LPC. To slander him in an SO 31 runs contradictory to the principle, if not the letter, of the Standing Orders of the House of Commons.
I have no problem with him being subject to discussion in the MSM, but to use Members' Statements time to get your point across smacks of illegitimacy and desperation- it's not like he has a chance to respond in kind. Let's take those discussions out of the House and away from Parliamentary Privilege, and see what they have to say.
Using Kinsella as a smoke-screen to obfuscate from doing nothing to help Canadians- it may win the support of the Blogging Tories, but it won't win the support of Canadians.
Of course, be careful what you wish for, these folks could start pulling the levers of power and really muck things up.
I would expect no less. What's the bet that, whenever the Conservatives are clearly on the way out (and it will happen, eventually), they'll attempt to eviscerate everything they don't like on their way out the door? It wouldn't be the first time it's been done, nor would it be beneath them.
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