Saturday, March 20, 2010

Big Daddy tells his minions: do as I say, not as I do.

Guergis has “one of the worst meltdowns a staff member of Charlottetown Airport says he's ever seen,”  then four days later, Jean-Pierre Blackburn nearly had the cops called on him when he took “strong issue with security guards at the Ottawa airport who refused to let him on a plane with a bottle of tequila,” prompting negative press indicating that gee whiz, Canadians really don’t like paying wages to people who feel they are above the law, after which Steve realizes Canadians aren’t completely asleep and decides that he needs to save his own miserable ass by having the PMO say he “will issue an edict to his ministers, reminding them that they're not above the law.”   H/t CC

Impolitical points out that Steve the Arrogant really needs a lesson in respecting the law himself.

Mr. Prorogation who breaks parliamentary convention with ease, Mr. Not-So-Fixed-Election-Date Law, Mr. Defy-Parliamentary-Order-on-Document-Production, Mr. PMO-Instructs-Ministries-to-Disobey-Access-to-Information-Laws...Mr. all of these things is going to issue an edict to his ministers reminding them that they're not above the law. Uh huh. What is it they say, the fish rots from the head. Or do as I say, not as I do?

But really.  We were all kids, once, and we know that eventually, all the do not rules mean nothing if the parent pushing them violates the rules themselves.

Air transport security?  Let’s look back to 2006 and see what example Big Daddy set for his MPs:

... on a recent trip, the Prime Minister was asked by a flight attendant to turn off his cellphone and BlackBerry. Mr. Harper declined. The pilot then made a request, saying it was for safety purposes. The PM relented. But, at the end of the journey, one of his staffers gave the pilot some news: His services would no longer be required on prime ministerial trips.

I guess respecting the law doesn’t apply to egocentric sociopaths who think the rest of the universe is full of shit and destined to be ruled by said sociopath.

Because Big Daddy knows best.  And he is, afterall, Big Daddy.

There's a word for that...

...oh yeah...

2 comments:

Informed Despite Education said...

The nobility in France had such privileges and felt so entitled...though I think something happened to them. It started way back when in 1789 when a king was taken from his palace by a bunch of angry peasents and made to sit in a city surrounded by more angry peasents. He had the misfortune of having people who felt entitled around him, which made the peasents even more angry and shortly there after he and his wife lost their heads. Those pompous, entitled, ladies and gentlement followed their idealistic king shortly for blood calls for blood and there must be much when the party of offenders is so large. Now we live in a much more civilized time and our current king and nobles would never show such disrespect for their own laws...wait sorry this is not 1867 this is 2010 and our current leader is Stephen Harper. Hmm since our current king seems intent on bringing back the old days of noble privelege I hope for his sake that the people do not get angry and old fashion...but then again I have never seen a guilloteen used, could be fun! My preference would be to see a political guilloteen applied to this despotic sycophants power base and have his head removed from our state. Mr Harper has for to long abused our system to give me hope that he can be reasoned with, threatened, or even bludgeoned into submission. This man must be politically anihilated before he will admit defeat and he will use all your resources in order to avoid that fate. How do so many still wish to see him and his parasites remain in power.

900ft Jesus said...

Right, I don't think he can be reasoned with, either. He thinks he knows everything, the even thinks he knows what's best for all of Canada and eff you if you don't agree because you're just scum.

Mind numbing how he still has any support beyond his insane base.