So where's the hew and cry over the GROSS spending spree?

CTV.ca | Tory spending points to coming election: analyst:

I golfed with a fairly Republican family friend a few years ago who said he was very upset with how "un-conservative" the Republican party in general and George Bush in particular was behaving at the time (2004-05). His words were "spending like drunken sailors".

"$10 billion in spending in the past three months, according to a tally by The Toronto Star."

So I was struck by the irony here.

When Paul Martin's government made a number of spending announcements right before the last election, the Conservative Party toured the country with the mantra that the Liberals were "buying votes" and "spending with largesse".

So where is the outrage with this spending?

Could it be that really Conservative anger is fake? Or maybe it has to do with ideology? They simply think their spending is better than Liberal spending, bottom line.

Doesn't matter whether its Big Government, last time it was Liberal Big Government so the difference this time is that it is Conservative Big Government.

I guess the fiscal conservatives are fair weather conservatives?

Either all largesse spending is wrong, or its just a matter of disliking how and where the money was spent.

Given that the Conservatives are spending at a very rapid rate, and nobody is raising an issue with it, they must not really be concerned with curbing government spending. They just hate spending on things like childcare, and instead prefer spending on the Alberta Oil Patch.

Hypocrisy!

A.L.

A Christian, lone voice crying out in the wilderness.... Good for him.

globeandmail.com: Bishop demands 'better theology' of sex

Read the article, its good.

Bravo for a Christian leader to cry out, and call the persecutors on their misguided interpretation of the Bible.

As, first of all a Christian, and second as an Anglican. I am wholeheartedly supportive of Bishop Ingham's stance on this issue.

A.L.

First Al Gore said the Tories were lying... and now the RED CROSS!!!

See the full article here. Looks like the Tories are getting an "oh no we didn't" from another outside source.

First Al Gore, and now the Red Cross:

From the article:

The International Committee of the Red Cross confirmed Wednesday that it has no role in monitoring the Canada-Afghanistan detainee-transfer agreement, in direct contradiction to assurances Defence Minister Gordon O'Connor has made to the House of Commons.

Oops!

Fast and loose with the truth for political expediency... the Tories would never do that!

Of course they wouldn't. Not here, in our cities, in Canada.

A.L.

Dick Cheney's former Chief of Staff: GUILTY

globeandmail.com: Libby found guilty in CIA leak case

Not exactly the smoking gun that Bush/Cheney "Asses of Evil" detractors were hoping for, but it sure smells suspiciously of gunpowder....

Particularly:

Mr. Libby's defence team said he learned about Ms. Plame from Mr. Cheney, forgot about it, then learned it again a month later from NBC newsman Tim Russert. Anything he told reporters about Ms. Plame, Mr. Libby said, was just chatter and rumours, not official government information.

This....

Mr. Libby told investigators he learned of Ms. Plame's identity from NBC reporter Tim Russert, saying that he'd forgotten at the time he talked to the reporter that he'd been told of it earlier by Mr. Cheney.

Mr. Russert testified he never told Mr. Libby about Mr. Wilson's wife, and underwent a gruelling cross-examination as Mr. Libby's legal team tried to discredit Mr. Russert's testimony.

and this...

Mr. Fitzgerald noted that eight witnesses, including an undersecretary of state, two CIA officials, two top Cheney aides, two reporters and former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer said they discussed Mr. Wilson's wife with Mr. Libby in a one-month span before Ms. Plame's CIA employment was publicly revealed.

Interesting to see whether justice will be done....

A.L.

Ann Coulter should never get air-time, anywhere

Ann Coulter: “I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, but it turns out you have to go into rehab if you use the word ‘faggot,’ so I — so kind of an impasse, can’t really talk about Edwards.”

Audience members said “ohhh” and then cheered.

You can see it here.

Best part about it, also in attendance at the big conservative meeting where she made these comments, GOP Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney, and VP Dick Cheney.

Wedge politics.

A.L.