Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Love the new Conservative accountability ads

Oh wait...those are news headlines.  From today.

Opposition parties: Scandals could topple Conservatives

Kenney faces new accusation of partisanship  

Jason Kenney’s performance shows some ministers aren’t created equal 

  Conservatives’ in-and-out scheme: applying smell test to facts

Stephen Harper finds his Dingwall

A government for all Conservatives

Access-to-information woes grow ever more absurd 

Kenney fends off demands for resignation over fundraising letter

Justin Trudeau takes Jason Kenney to task for alleged abuse of ministerial office    


Looks like the Liberals and NDP agree that  the so-called in-and-out election spending scandal and other missteps (should be) the springboard to Election Day 2011.

Nice to see unity on that from opposition.  The CONs can say all they want that Canadians don't care about those issues, but they would like us to forget that they beat the Martin Liberals pretty much on the accountability issue alone.  And pompously promised they'd be different.

Oh, they're different, all right:
During the Chrétien government years, I reported extensively on malfeasance by the Liberals. To do the math on the Harper government is to conclude that, while it has no sponsorship scandal on its books, it’s already surpassed its predecessor on a range of other abuse-of-power indices. (Lawrence Martin)

And for those people who really don't care that the harper team has beaten even the eternal ADSCAM (!!!!!), the CONs provide headlines today about other things, those things dealing with budgets, finance, and the economy, those things harper says are really what Canadians care about:


Critics slam feds’poverty plan 

Commons committee keeps MPs' legal fees under wraps  

Federal spending rising in areas where Tories vowed to tighten belts: budget watchdog.

The feds are spending billions without looking at the bill

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