Prime Minister is thumbs up

And why wouldn’t the Prime Minister be thumbs up?  It’s not as ‘good as it gets’, but the lack of any real spine on the part of the opposition parties, has landed the Prime Minister in a pretty nice spot.

Jack Layton will not bring the government down. Not even for a policy near and dear to the NDP’s heart, employment benefits for suffering workers.  To listen to Mr. Layton, Mr. Harper’s plan must pass, because of course an NDP government just couldn’t do a better job.

Listening Mr. Ignatieff reminds me a lot of a neighbors toy dog.  Always making a lot of noise about something, always ‘talking tough’ but when the big dog comes along, the little dog just fades away with a few grumbles. And of course no one wants to run with a chihuahua. So for the time being, until one or the other opposition party comes up with a strong leader and by strong we mean, someone with a backbone, Mr. Harper can and has, been doing pretty much what his Reform party impulses tell him to do. The man is brilliant. Perhaps the smartest politician in power in the western world. To watch Mr. Harper maneuver, out fox and generally put down his opposites is to watch a master at work.

You may not love his policies, but you have to love Mr. Harper’s mastery.

A New Beginning?

Welcome to Mr. Harper’s world. Again.

And what a world it is. With policies that could never be sold under the Reform banner, unable to muster a clear majority or even much more than 30 per cent of the country, Mr. Harper gets to implement his dystopic Reform vision of Canada. Why bother to describe the vision?  A quick look at the Reform Alliance policy book will tell you where this all ends. And it ends badly for just about everyone except the extreame right wing.

So hail to the chief, and full speed ahead. Thank you Liberal party, thank you NDP, neither of which is the 500 pound gorilla in the room. Neither of which could set their own egos aside and think about the country. Neither of which, quiet frankly is up to the task of managing a country.  If this election were survivor, Mr. Harper would be walking out of the jungle right about now, with Jacks and Micheal’s bicuspids around his neck. And its going to stay that way I predict until at least 2012. By 2012 the Liberal party will have been in near revolt as the lastest of leaders failed to do the things necessary to take power. Jack Layton who was never serious about taking the country in an NDP direction will retire. And Mr. Harper who will have by that time run the country as long as any majority leader, will step aside, though for who is unanswered.

Whoo hoo.