tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23680463.post1715048635101270352..comments2023-11-05T04:40:23.785-07:00Comments on Rusty Idols: Take some responsibility for Christ's sake!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23680463.post-40445486597214060182008-10-17T12:14:00.000-06:002008-10-17T12:14:00.000-06:00They only have themselves to blame.I'm sure their ...They only have themselves to blame.<BR/><BR/>I'm sure their carbon tax proposal has something to do with it.pilgrimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06341946961084387134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23680463.post-40181072070457618522008-10-14T16:43:00.000-06:002008-10-14T16:43:00.000-06:00Heh.Well put, Cliff.Heh.<BR/>Well put, Cliff.b_nicholhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970971023532391095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23680463.post-22995777044851448012008-10-13T23:25:00.000-06:002008-10-13T23:25:00.000-06:00Your third option isn't one as the Tories have max...Your third option isn't one as the Tories have maxed out their support. The best they can hope for is a minority - lets be clear here, <B>the best they can <I>ever</I> hope for is a minority.</B><BR/><BR/>The NDP on the other hand keeps winning more seats every election, a trend they will continue tomorrow. More and more soft Liberal supporters every election, dissatisfied with broken promises and self destructive infighting drift towards the NDP. A tipping point is imminent. Not this election agreed, maybe not even the next one. But I wouldn't bet against it.<BR/><BR/>And the NDP aren't calling for new taxes on big business, just canceling new tax cuts that haven't been applied yet and freezing the corporate rate at the level it was at when Paul Martin left office - considerably below the American corporate rate as it happens and well in the middle of the pack for industrialized nations. <BR/><BR/>Meanwhile we're proposing a tax cut for small and medium sized businesses - where most of the jobs are actually generated.<BR/><BR/>The whole 'low taxes for corporations increases productivity, adds jobs and increases prosperity for all off us' canard is bullshit Reaginism. It's voodoo economics that has been disproven over and over again. Canadian corporations have been taking the huge tax cuts they've gotten over the last several years and used them to pay ever more swollen executive compensation. You're arguing for increased wages all right: seven and eight figure wages for the top 1% of the population or less while the rest of us watch our real income drop every year.<BR/><BR/>Oh and the NDP usually comes out of its leadership conventions in the black as energized members take the opportunity to make their donations. I understand if energized members seems like an alien concept for a Liberal...Cliffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03487395482670731681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23680463.post-85019029823885739832008-10-13T23:04:00.000-06:002008-10-13T23:04:00.000-06:00You're right. A third option is a Conservative maj...You're right. A third option is a Conservative majority with a much smaller Liberal opposition and a bigger NDP third party. Oo. How exciting. I know I'm just all a-shiver about that prospect. <BR/><BR/>Let's be honest, no way in hell Layton is going to be Prime Minister, and but a snowball's chance that he'll make Leader of the Opposition. Maybe next election if he manages to shore up significant support here, but it's doubtful. Canadians are leery of NDP promises to make their employers pay additional taxes.. because they know that one of the first things that gets sacrificed when money is shorter is their own raises.<BR/><BR/>The reason the Liberals don't inspire donations like the conservatives and NDP is because it's supporters tend not to be furious radicals from either side of the aisle. Playing in the mushy middle mean even your supporters don't agree with you all the time, and that doesn't help donations.<BR/><BR/>Plus, another reason that the Liberals are massively in debt is that they're the only party that's had to undergo a full leadership convention since the new funding laws came into place. It'll be interesting to see how the other parties do once they have to suffer through one of those.EvilIncoherenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08052591724343311664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23680463.post-54688115954080544372008-10-13T14:52:00.000-06:002008-10-13T14:52:00.000-06:00Well we've got your party leader farcically claimi...Well we've got your party leader farcically claiming that a vote for the NDP is a vote for Harper, Steve V at Far and Wide highlighting a Green blaming the NDP for Harper's lead which Queer Thoughts also noticed, Liberal Arts and Minds calling for New Democrats to switch sides at the last minute or they must really like Harper, John Laforet still obsessing over a party leader campaigning nationally rather than just in his own riding, Big City Lib putting on his tinfoil hat and claiming the NDP are trying to throw ridings to the Conservatives and lots of Liberals eagerly highlighting Elizabeth May's recent attacks on Jack Layton for calling for people to vote for his own party rather than somebody else's. <BR/><BR/>I didn't even bother checking in on Cherniak but you have to admit NDP hate is one of the central themes of his blog in or out of a campaign. <BR/><BR/>Come on Scott - unless you are studiously ignoring your fellow lib bloggers, which I could certainly understand, you know I was identifying a real theme among them.Cliffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03487395482670731681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23680463.post-59346000641764267422008-10-13T13:25:00.000-06:002008-10-13T13:25:00.000-06:00Er..I'm not.. Who have you seen doing that?Er..I'm not.. Who have you seen doing that?Oxford County Liberalshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12181314055142726735noreply@blogger.com