...You know that Paul Martin and his Liberal government have reached a true ethical milestone when even the Hells Angels are holding their noses at the stench of the Adscam fiasco.
The biker gang's Toronto chapter is so peeved at the PM that it has adorned its website with a doctored photo of Martin, decked out in a bandanna, over the caption: "Pirate of Canada."
What got the bikers' leathers in a twist was Martin's odd statement that the federal Liberals should not be tarnished by the "activities of a very small few who may have colluded against the party."
The bikers fumed to us by e-mail yesterday, saying: "The government thinks it's fine to blame every Hells Angel for the actions of a few ... What a country this used to be. What a hypocritical pile of #&$* it is becoming."
The Liberals losing the Hells Angels vote fit perfectly into a truly wacky week of Adscam in which parliamentary politics is verging on the theatre of the absurd.
So begins todays column by Greg Weston of Sun Media.
Justice Gomery will rule today on the publicatioon as CTV reports. There is quite a bit of related video on their page as well. I love how crazy or bold (take your pick) Liberal MP Jim Karygiannis is. Of election, he says "bring it on". Methinks he is in the minority within his own party. Check out CTV reporter Robert Fife in his second interview, "this will be one of the most exciting times in Canadian history." All talk of media bias aside, reporters live for this stuff. Check out the bizarre scene in the report from Jennifer Tryon. The Quebeckers who watched the feed of the Gomery Inquiry clapped and cheered for Jean Brault as he left.
And if the first
line of this story from the National Post is any indictaion, the I will err on the side of craziness for MP Karygiannis.
...The revelations about Adscam keep getting worse. We don't yet know which Liberals knew what and when about the shady sponsorship deals at its heart.
The rest of the article is a history lesson on the Pacific Railroad scandal of PM John A. MacDonald's government with the following, final linkage.
Paul Martin's Liberals now face a role-reversal of historic proportions. Since Jean Chretien's retirement, the federal Liberals have too closely resembled the rudderless Tories of the 1890s. Depending on what Judge Gomery discovers, their fall may be similarly spectacular.
John Ivison has a good review of Question Period yesterday. There were a couple of funny moments during the session. MP Duceppe asked a question of the PM who in turn asked a question back. MP Duceppe responded that if the PM was so desperate to ask questions in Question Period who will soon get his chance as the Leader of the Opposition. Funny line. Which the PM adeptly turned around by pointing out that the Bloc and Conservatives both applauded it. Turn-about being the goal of the day, MP Stephen Harper pointed out that the Liberal defense is "hey, the separatists are crooks as well".
Fun stuff.
