!The Two Sides of the Deficit Coin!

!For as long as the Underminer remains on Progressive Bloggers, posts on that site appear under protest!

A few thoughts on  Scheer's* floppiest of flips in that a Con government would need 5 years to balance the budget rather than his earlier commitment to a two year hack and slash.

It displays either a jaw dropping display of economic incompetence or political cynicism or both.  Evidence points to the latter.

Given the fixed election law foisted on us by the Great and Powerful Oz, a Con government would last at most four years.  That means anyone foolish enough to vote for him based on this deficit plan would be signing up for a two election commitment.

Doug Ford is already so toxic that the ghosting is well underway 5 months out.  All Liberal messaging should take care to drop the word “Progressive” when referring to the Ontario government.

Aaron Wherry is very eager to proclaim that this announcement hobbies the Liberals by taking away the budget slashing boogeyman meme.  That is a laudable effort to claim all news is good news for the Cons.

Another view is that the deficit was the only economic mallet the Cons could have wielded in the arena in which they need to pick up seats.  What economic argument can they make in the 905? Overall, things are pretty good in that battleground. They have essentially ceded the economy to Trudeau.

Sheep has, by his own volition removed the fiscal pole from his lean-to.  Is the remaining coalition of white supremacists, Trudeau haters, carbon tax opponents and other fringe groups enough to edge him over the line to a majority government?  Or will he be forced to resign on election night and let Kenney have a go?

*Android autocorrect Scheer's to Sheep's.  Tee Hee

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!Lament for my BlackBerry Passport!

!if this appears on Progressive Bloggers it is under protest!

With the upcoming demise of the BlackBerry 10 operating system, I finally bit the bullet and switched to an Android phone.  OMG I miss my Passport.

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!On reticent Harper cabinet members!

! This post appears on Progressive Bloggers under protest!

Even John Ibbitson admits the government,s hands are clean in the Norman case.

All it took was for one of Harper, Kennedy, O' Toole or MacKay to make a phone call and this would all have been over before it started.

Instead these “honourable“ men didn't make the call.  This allowed bottom feeders like The Undermined to sow innuendo about the behaviour of the PMO.  And the fine upstanding lawyer who got Gomeshi off implied there was witness coaching and other illegalities.  She knew of the exculpatory information in late 2018.  Why didn't this get revealed before mid 2019?

Surely preventing the suffering of an innocent man was at the forefront of their concerns.

Surely they didn't push the mute button in an attempt to gin up a pre-election embarrassment for the Liberals?

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Removal request has been resubmitted

I was on vacation for a week and hadn't posted since my request to be removed from ProgBlogs.  Now that I am back I published a new post this morning and noticed that it popped up on ProgBlogs. I expect this may seem like prevarication on my part.

I remain committed to not being associated with a political consultant using a progressive aggregator to promulgate transparent voter suppression techniques.  I do not want whatever few readers I have to think that I in any way support this.

Scott mentioned earlier this week that he was preoccupied over the last few weeks and I expect my request slipped through the cracks.  I have resubmitted my request.

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Top 10 Positive Outcomes of A Liberal re-election

In the Spirit of Late Night with David Letterman, the Top 10 reasons to see the Liberals re-elected.

10. A government guided by progressive principles can continue its work.  As imperfect as it may be, it is the best option we have.
9. The "But her emails" north non-scandal will be done.  As will the JWR and JP.  The whole matter will only be referred to when PoliSci profs want to add a bit of levity to their lectures.
8.  The budget will continue to move into surplus.
7. The Scheer Cons are a Big Lean-To Party based on appealing to homophobes, fundamentalists, racists and corporatists. 
6.  It will be another lesson for the Cons that Republican tactics don't work here.  They aren't very smart so they might have to learn this lesson a few more times.
5.  We won't have to remove our flags from our backpacks.
4.Andy Bot will have to resign.  And Harper Proxy Leader v. 1 will be done.
3.  Jason Kenney will assume the mantle as HPL v. 2 under the delusion that his one trick pony act of pitting Canadians against each other will work federally.
2. The defeat of HPL v. 2 by Trudeau in 2023 will flush the last vestige of Harperism down the drain.  Because like any other B-movie monster, it will arise, zombie-like, if we don't completely defeat it.

And the best outcome of a Trudeau victory in 2019: The Conservatives will do a post-mortem on hiring The Underminer as part of their election team and decide the Dandelion Group is a weed to be pulled from their dismal garden.  Having been previously rejected by the Liberals he will be branded as a loser and disappear from the scene.  That alone will be a great outcome.Recommend this Post