Day 4

And it continues.

It’s enough to make you wonder what happened to the laws of temporal mechanics, the way time seems to crawl along whenever the season rolls around for all the politicians to fling their pieholes open.

For those of you who might have been hoping that this time would somehow be different: forget it. The bullshit is flying just as fast and furious as you were afraid it would.

“I want my tag-team partner”

Dimwit Dion still has his heart set on having some backup at the leaders’ debate. Who can blame him? He needs all the damned help he can get, or else Steve’s gonna eat him alive…

The Liberal leader began his day in Mississauga going to bat for Green Leader Elizabeth May’s quest to get in on the leaders’ debate, accusing Conservative, New Democratic Party and Bloc Quebecois leaders Wednesday of “hiding themselves behind” a consortium of broadcasting executives.

Now, before anybody out there starts barking about how Dion’s being a fool by trying to get May into the debate, remember what we used to say when we were camping up north: “I don’t need to outrun the bear, I just need to outrun YOU!”

“Shut up and listen up, broads”

Oh well, at least Steffy sticking up for Elly May means that he can still count on the female vote:

And Stephane Dion’s pandering to women at a round table this morning, where he out-talked the women participants with promises of gender-parity throughout his government, was hardly captivating.

Oopsie. Nice irony.

I’ve had fish…

…that I pulled into the bottom of the boat that didn’t flip and flop this much. Looks like I opened my yap and moved on too quick on this one. I guess whining like a spoiled brat actually does get you your way, after all. Well, start looking for every bunch o’ kooks in the country that managed to register a political party to start expecting the same…

Canada’s broadcast networks have agreed to include Green Party Leader Elizabeth May in the televised debates, after the Conservatives and New Democrats backed down from their initial opposition.

May said on CTV’s Mike Duffy Live Wednesday that it was “inspiring that Canadians can’t stand unfairness and I think that bodes well for the rest of the election.”

“I’m just so grateful to Canadians,” she told reporters earlier in a conference call. “This last couple of days proves that democracy doesn’t happen behind closed doors.

“I think it’s enormously encouraging.”

Conservative Leader Stephen Harper and NDP Leader Jack Layton both reversed their opposition to the inclusion of May earlier Wednesday.

I don’t know about anyone else, but what I wanna see, is Harper & Dion… one on one!

Vis du bloc

It’s about God damned time a politician somewhere in this country finally came out and said what the rest of us have known for years now. Leave it to a Tory to have the stones for this:

Mr. Fortier said the Bloc has achieved no real results, spearheaded no major projects and created no employment.

“The only jobs that Bloc MPs have created in 18 years are their own,” he said. “A vote on the Bloc is a wasted vote – Quebecers are already realizing the Bloc can’t deliver, and are already turning their back on this powerless party,” he said.

Last word on the debate debacle…

…goes to Hugh.  I have to admit that I hadn’t thought of it from that angle.  He makes a damned good point, though (May is going to be one helluva loose cannon)…

This is what will happen in the debate. Every time May attacks Harper it will make it harder for the other three to attack Harper (and it will be four on one). They will have to soften their blows (as I did) with prefixes such as, “well I don’t know about that, but I do agree that Harper sucks.”

Speaking of elections…

Oh, yeah. The Americans are still all tied up in that odd ritual they do every four years. You’ll get a kick out of this. It seems that a couple of Left Wing Nutjobs at some radio station or other were looking to dig some dirt on Sarah Palin so they brought in Mike Gravel, a former Democrat senator from Alaska. Hey, if you wanna slag Palin, who better to get than a Democrat, right?

Yeah, right. The interview kinda went sideways on them. As Allahpundit over at Hot Air put it, “You don’t hear their hearts actually start to break until he says, ‘Troopergate is going to come out in her favor.’” Gotta love it…