Excited Delirium

Jack Layton is the best candidate for leading Canada.  There.  I said it.

In order to win that title, he’s going to have to get Steve to show his true colours.  Here are just a few suggestions:

• Constantly refer to him as a ‘bully’ or ‘thug’ as opposed to being ’strong’
• Say he’s the world’s greatest socialist, one to admire, for all of the recent pre-election spending announcements
• Always call him ‘Steve’, alluding to his close alliance with George W. Bush, the most reviled President in US history
• Show ads with Steve and Bush hugging, shaking hands, being good buddies.
• Ask ‘where was Steve’ with a number of issues, including the Ontario economy, the massive food recall, the Sunrise Propane explosion, the devastating truck crash on the 401/404 recently and so on.
• Try depicting Steve as having just a little more personality than Darth Vader
• "He’s not a minivan dad, he’s an Esca-lady"

And Dion?  Well, given that he’s unproven as leader, Jack again become the only real option.

Bloomberg story used as inspiration.

Another day, another bailout.

The corporate world and Republicans Conservatives in Canada cry fowl when $10 or $20 million is ‘misspent’ on the arts, but it’s OK to funnel hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayers money to inept managers and businesses in the wake of the financial instability in the US (and that’s spreading to normally stable countries like Canada and those in the EU).

We repeatedly have enormous faith in ‘the invisible hand’ of the market, and yet it’s failing all around us.  Corporate welfare is on the upswing (from a massive climb that would have already given a Snowbird pilot a nosebleed), and yet we as citizens fail to rise into uproar.

The Republicans Conservatives recently announced that they would spend up to $80 million on a plant in Windsor.  Why isn’t Ford spending that money from their own pockets?  When they shut out hundreds of unionized employees, will they go on lining their own pockets with the hard-earned money of Canadians?

The Republican Conservative spending spree is exactly what they promised they wouldn’t do, but here we are, aren’t we.  Do the Republican Conservative really think we’re that stupid?  That we can just be bought with our own money?

I guess it worked the last time with the $100 per kid bonus, so I suppose it’ll work again.

Please people:  learn how to see throught the mire that they’re spreading around.

Breakdown of spending promises here here & supporting story here .

OK … I’ll admit that maybe even I’m going a little far with that moniker, but it seems very well earned.  Nearly $9 billion in campaign promises and we haven’t even started the Canadian Election campaign.  Anyone that relies that heavily on the public coffers to dig the economy out of the ruin the Republicans Conservatives created, has to be labelled a socialist.  There are no options.

What else do you call them?  Pink Tories?

What happened to the wonders of the ‘invisible hand’ of the market?  Why did you launch into those tax breaks two years ago, when all they’ve done is forced us into a deficit position?

Dion’s right:  the Liberals corrected the spending fury of the previous Republican Conservative government and they’ll likely do it again.

Of course, if Jack Layton wants to win, all he has to do is refer to this kind of press and, in as light a way as possible, make sure Canadians have a very good understanding that he’d never be able to outspend this kind of Republican Conservative desparation.