Black Monday
Sigh.
The big news around these parts is David’s Emerson defection to the Tory party. Funniest thing I read about this:
On election night, however, Emerson told his supporters things like “We have got to look at this as Ground Zero for rebuilding a stronger, more vibrant, healthier, winning Liberal Party,” and added to journalists, “I would like to be Stephen Harper’s worst nightmare.”
Apparently a healthier Liberal Party is one without David Emerson. Apparently Stephen Harper’s worst nightmare is someone who sucks up to him, jumping ship to get cabinet position.
Emerson claims, “I was elected to serve the people of Vancouver-Kingsway.” Funny thing is, the people of Vancouver-Kingsway didn’t want a “Conservative”* MP! I’ve just checked the election results for the Vancouver-Kingsway riding:
- David Emerson (Liberal) 17267
- Ian Waddell (NDP) 15916
- Jesse Johl (“Tory”*) 7037
I wonder how many people in that riding were voting strategically — voting for the incumbent Liberal when they really wanted to vote NDP out of fear of electing a “Tory”*. If I were one of them (or anyone who voted for Emerson because I wanted a Liberal), I would sure be pissed off today!
I also find it interesting that no one has referred to Emerson as a whore, like so many people did when Belinda Stronach crossed the floor. We’ve come a long way, baby?
*I put the words “Conservative” and “Tory” in quotation marks because I can’t bring myself to call this party the Tories, when they are clearly just the Canadian Alliance party (which was clearly just the Reform party).
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I like to call them the morons actually.
I’m very afraid of being a brown guy today.
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BTW my word verification was rascau.
That was one of my favourite shows growing up. The Little Rasaus were the highlight of my Saturday mornings.
My word verification is isnyn. It sounds like it should be a question – Isnyn?
You are so right! Where is the name calling and backstabbing and personal attacks? I am so going to call him names from now on!
My word was qetgf. I don’t know – it doesn’t really sound like anything.
[…] That’s right. David Emerson, who jumped ship from the Liberal Party pretty much immediately after the last election, abandoning the people who voted for him less than a month before, lured by the promise of a cabinet post by the Harper Conservatives. You know how I feel about David Emerson. […]
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