A private word from the ‘Old Duff’
I’ve heard it said that politicians are like shit. I.e. – a small minority of people are fascinated by them, but the vast majority would like to flush them down the toilet and never see them again.
When it comes to senators, I’m with the majority.
I don’t want to see those hacks, I don’t want to hear them, and most of all, I don’t want them popping up – Mr Hankey like – and saying ‘hiddey-ho’.
Case in point:
The new personalized Tory ads staring ‘The Old Duff’ (Senator Mike Duffy) are so totally creepy and cringe inducing. First off, isn’t the party suppossed to be embarassed by the appointed senators? As part of the disaffected base, I know I don’t like to be reminded that these people exist. Second, the Romper Room antics of personalized messages is c-r-e-e-p-y. Don’t you remember how all those Jewish people got freaked out when the PM sent them personalized Hannukkah cards? Finally, ‘the Old Duff’? Are you sh*tting me? The Old Duff? What were you* thinking?
As I’ve said before, death is too good for the Tory tech team. Their lame pooping penguins, their yabbering senators and their embarassing party homepage. You people suck so much.
[* FYI - I mean 'you' the idiot communications team, not 'you' the Senator, who had my favourite politics show.]
You’re right, that was brutal.
mahmood
September 17, 2009 at 1:19 am
Agreed.
Louise
September 17, 2009 at 8:22 pm
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Steynian 384 « Free Canuckistan!
September 18, 2009 at 6:47 pm
The CPoC is against Senators being appointed for purely partisan reasons Robert, what you obviously fail to grasp is that there is a difference between the “purely partisan reasons” the LIEbrels had, and “good partisan reasons” Stephen Harper has… both may both look “purely partisan” but even if they do look the same they’re as different as night and day… really… ask a hyer-partisan Conservative… they’ll tell you its’ so…
stageleft
September 19, 2009 at 1:12 am
On the other hand, you gotta stack the senate with Conservatives if you want to get any statutory changes to how the senate is stacked.
Louise
September 19, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Ya see, Louise gets it … doing what you promised you wouldn’t do so that you can do what you promised to do isn’t really the same as breaking a promise about not doing what the other guys do because it’s a bad, bad, thing,– this all makes perfect sense to the hyper-partisan.
It gets a little bit more interesting for them to defend when you add in simple facts like
* the majority of Canadians did not vote for either Harper or his plans for Senate reform
* when given the opportunity to hold elections for Senators the provinces and territories did not
– and summing that up with the (I think reasonable) conclusion that the vast majority of Canada is not actually on side with the plan and Harpers tactics for forcing it on them are generally authoritarian.
stageleft
September 19, 2009 at 12:58 pm
You mean “puffin” :-)
Saskboy
September 19, 2009 at 5:23 pm