Promises, promises....
Harris did not keep all his promises either (so there!)
And so, off we go on another merry trip into Toronto Star land, where the Liberal Faeries and elves shower their largesse across the country/province, forever stalked by the evil wicked Conservatives. Why, even when Dalton tries his darndest to buy some support with a goodie-goodie announcement (albeit in an altered form from what he “promised” during the election) the media keep labeling him as a ‘promise breaker.’ It just ever so sad.
And if those cute l’il Liberals go astray and do something, well, bad (like lying their asses off to get elected) – well, that can just be dismissed with a casual swipe at those pesky Conservatives –just start howiling that “they did it too!”.
This is the best the Star can trot out? Talk about damning with faint praise. When all else fails they go for the tried and true strategy of attacking Mike Harris. Um, memo to the Star - Mikey has been removed from the Ontario political scene for several years now…and isn’t that “well, they did it too!” line just about the weakest most feeble defense that can be offered? Honestly, do Star writers put their kids to bed with scary stories of the wicked ogre of North Bay – ooooooo –watch out for that scary Mike Harris – he could jump out from under the bed at any time! Oh , the hardship we lived under during his wicked rule. *sob*
But onward, ho! Columnist Ian Urquhart ties himself into knots to try and make it appear that Harris was somehow as big a fibber as McGuinty. Nevermind the fact that he undermines his own argument by noting that Harris’ Common Sense Revolution document made some 61 promises versus McGuinty’s 231 (231!!) promises made during the 2003 election campaign. Lets face it, Mcguinty’s Fiberals were quite obviously shoveling the shit in 2003 as fast as humanly possible in the classic “say anything to get elected” style of the Liberals. If they promised 231 things during the last election you can rest assured that 230 of them were bullshit, and the other one somehow slipped by their political consultants.
Who will ever forget Mcguinty staring into the camera with that dead fish gaze of his and promising “I won’t cut your taxes – but I won’t raise them either.” Must have set a record breaking that one.
Or his solemn declaration that he would halt building on the Oak Ridges Morraine – legal contracts be damned! Or ignored in this case, until those pesky courts intervened and said – don’t think so!
Isn’t it about time the folks at the Star realized that the reason that:
“Try as he might, Premier Dalton McGuinty and his Liberal government have found it impossible to escape the label of "promise breakers." “
is that, well, um, if the shoe fits…
And so, off we go on another merry trip into Toronto Star land, where the Liberal Faeries and elves shower their largesse across the country/province, forever stalked by the evil wicked Conservatives. Why, even when Dalton tries his darndest to buy some support with a goodie-goodie announcement (albeit in an altered form from what he “promised” during the election) the media keep labeling him as a ‘promise breaker.’ It just ever so sad.
And if those cute l’il Liberals go astray and do something, well, bad (like lying their asses off to get elected) – well, that can just be dismissed with a casual swipe at those pesky Conservatives –just start howiling that “they did it too!”.
This is the best the Star can trot out? Talk about damning with faint praise. When all else fails they go for the tried and true strategy of attacking Mike Harris. Um, memo to the Star - Mikey has been removed from the Ontario political scene for several years now…and isn’t that “well, they did it too!” line just about the weakest most feeble defense that can be offered? Honestly, do Star writers put their kids to bed with scary stories of the wicked ogre of North Bay – ooooooo –watch out for that scary Mike Harris – he could jump out from under the bed at any time! Oh , the hardship we lived under during his wicked rule. *sob*
But onward, ho! Columnist Ian Urquhart ties himself into knots to try and make it appear that Harris was somehow as big a fibber as McGuinty. Nevermind the fact that he undermines his own argument by noting that Harris’ Common Sense Revolution document made some 61 promises versus McGuinty’s 231 (231!!) promises made during the 2003 election campaign. Lets face it, Mcguinty’s Fiberals were quite obviously shoveling the shit in 2003 as fast as humanly possible in the classic “say anything to get elected” style of the Liberals. If they promised 231 things during the last election you can rest assured that 230 of them were bullshit, and the other one somehow slipped by their political consultants.
Who will ever forget Mcguinty staring into the camera with that dead fish gaze of his and promising “I won’t cut your taxes – but I won’t raise them either.” Must have set a record breaking that one.
Or his solemn declaration that he would halt building on the Oak Ridges Morraine – legal contracts be damned! Or ignored in this case, until those pesky courts intervened and said – don’t think so!
Isn’t it about time the folks at the Star realized that the reason that:
“Try as he might, Premier Dalton McGuinty and his Liberal government have found it impossible to escape the label of "promise breakers." “
is that, well, um, if the shoe fits…
posted by Steve at
6:17 PM
1 Comments:
Well Steve, your commentary certainly appears to be attracting some audience from the 'left'.
While most of these seem to not agree with your daily targeting of The Toronto Star, bastian of liberalism that it is...I for one, enjoy your rhetoric.
Of course, as long as society is based on the 'system' that exists, it really doesn't matter.
You know what will work...one well place explosive at the heart of the fire, to suck all the oxygen out of the air and put the fire out.
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