Pot Calls Kettle Black!

Portrait of a really stupid argument.

Mr. Harper--can I call you Stevie? I feel I know you so well. You can't run about recruiting help from the Bloc Quebecois in defeating the budget and then claim that gay marriage is "tainted" because it's "supported by seperatists".

Paul Martin, May 12 '05:

"If the government loses the vote next Thursday, I will seek the dissolution of this Parliament and Canadians will know that Stephen Harper and Gilles Duceppe have worked together to force an election less than one year after the last election."

Stevie Harper, June 27 '05:

"The truth is most federalist MPs oppose this. It's only a deal with the Bloc that's allowing it to pass."

More interestingly, one Conservative MP contrasted gay marriage with the 1960's civil rights campaign for blacks:

"Blacks in the United States," said [Ken] Epp, "never asked to be called white. They just wanted the same rights."

Epp then went on to say that women in Canada sought equal rights without demanding to be called men.

"And so I ask the question in this struggle for so-called equality for same-sex couple, why do they want to use the word that describes heterosexual marriage and has for millennia?"

True--but both blacks and women wanted the right to "vote", not the right to "exercise the right to do something almost just like voting". Gays want--to quote someone who recently shot his mouth off "the same rights" as heteros.

These are the enlightened souls who want to lead Canada in the 2010's?

Once again O Avid Fan, I tell you that the good name of the Conservative Party of Canada has been besmirched in these latter decades by the low calibre and intellect of the putzes who've hijacked it.

Harper's shot his bolt. Unless the Liberals really screw up in the next year or so, he'd be best off folding his tent and stealing away quietly so as not to further encumber his party.

Good ridd--I mean, so long Stevie.