Canada’s Dubya is back again
Cats: Uncategorized|You have to feel for the Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Dubya Harper.*
Here we have a true Canadian NeoCon ready to join the big NeoCon revolution when all of a sudden. Whoosh! The NeoCon rug gets yanked out from under him. Sorry, but the party was over before you arrived, Stevo.
Now the poor guy has to contend with a new US president who is talking about a non-confrontational style of governing, about uniting rather than Karl Rovian dividing, about the environment and education. And gasp! -social programs. That’s not in his NeoCon DNA.
You can only imagine Canada’s Dubya going: Whaaaaaaaa? No culture wars to stoke? No rampant development of dirty Tar Sands projects? No pitting east against west? Who made up those rules? No fair. I’m taking my ball and bat and going home.
And that’s exactly what he did in December when he suspended parliament because he was facing a no-confidence vote over his lost-in-la-la-land budget. He was thinking NeoCon when the world was plunging into reces/depression. Nice work there, Steve.
Today’s he’s back with another budget. And he’s up against a new and formidable opponent. He won’t be able to bully the new guy like he did the old guy. It’ll be interesting to see the old NeoCon try to wriggle and squirm his way through this brave new world.
Good luck, Stevo.
*Thanks to Cormac Brown for suggesting the Stephen Dubya Harper idea.
January 27th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Everyone needs a Dubya or a Harper to wake them out of their apathy and to show them not to take their freedoms for granted. I hope that the Canadian parliment extends their no-confidence vote into a “boot the jackass over a fence vote.”
January 27th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
I am reveling in a great deal of Schadenfreude myself right about now. Almost makes me glad for a recession.
January 28th, 2009 at 9:16 am
Cormac, that’s true actually. I think Stephen Dubya did sort of nudge canada out of its sleepy state.
Barbara, the up side of recession. I like the way you think