Stephen Harper Has Got To Be Fucking Kidding Me

Democracy is a big pain in the ass. You know it, I know, Stephen Harper knows it, and it's good and goddamn time that the Canadian people as a whole knew it, too. The Canadian people, being only slightly brighter than those of the American variety, will believe almost anything a murderous cyborg tells them, particularly if said cyborg can sing a few Beatles tunes.

Seriously, how can anyone expect an imperial prime minister to get anything done when constitutional government keeps getting in the fucking way? How long does this shit have to continue? How long, O Lord, how long?

I've written before about the Two Stephen Harpers. There's Blue Sweater Steve, the one who smiles and looks at you coyly when he needs your vote. Blue Sweater Steve always reminded me of Princess Diana, all vapid and needy.

Then there's the vicious cocksucker that we have to contend with between elections and holds things like "values" and "common sense" with the contempt that he so clearly feels they deserve. that one insists that you refer to him as Stephen, or preferably, His Royal Majesty.

Guess which Stephen Harper is talking to the media this week?

Parliament is creating an image of instability for Canada in global markets -- and it isn't a bad thing that it has been suspended until the beginning of March, Prime Minister Stephen Harper suggested on Monday.

In an interview with BNN television, Harper was asked if Canada's reputation as a stable democracy will suffer from his prorogation of Parliament. Harper said there was "zero risk" of that.

In fact, he said it's when Parliament is sitting that Canada's stability comes into question. That's when "the games begin," he said, and his minority Conservative government faces the constant threat of defeat and an election.

"As soon as Parliament comes back, we're in a minority Parliament situation and the first thing that happens is a vote of confidence and there will be votes of confidence and election speculation for every single week after that for the rest of the year," he said.

"That's the kind of instability I think that markets are actually worried about. But you know the government will be well-prepared and I think Canadians want to see us focus on the economy."

"So that's what we're going to be doing."

You have got to be fucking kidding me. Is the Prime Minister of Canada actually suggesting that democracy is a threat to stability? Did he actually say that in English, because I'm pretty sure that it would sound better in German.

Better still is the assertion that his government is focusing on the economy. His Minister of Finance, Jim Flaherty, is a virtual deficit machine, having created a big pile of debt before movin' on up to Ottawa. Federally, he has us over $50 billion in the can, after blowing a $13 billion surplus on a spectacularly stupid consumption tax cut. I can almost guarantee you that the Harper-Flaherty-Ignatieff deficit will top $90 billion when the March budget comes out.

by the way, here's the "focus on the economy" those assholes are planning;

Flaherty repeated his assertion Monday that Ottawa can, over time, balance its books without having to raise taxes or cut spending. Instead, he says savings can be achieved by keeping the increases in spending on federal programs from growing as fast (3.3 per cent annually) as they have in recent years.

"If we have sufficient economic growth, we won't have to do as much," Flaherty said, meaning that higher economic growth raises federal tax revenues and automatically helps reduce the deficit.

"But if we don't have as much economic growth, we'll have to restrain the rate of growth of spending," he said in Winnipeg, where he was holding prebudget consultations.

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In an interview with Business News Network, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said he is not worried Ottawa is creating a structural deficit. He said if the economy continues to grow and the government does what it has pledged to do in ending the stimulus and controlling spending, the possibility of "getting in a debt-interest payment trap is in my judgment not high."

You'll note that he's not talking about cutting spending, just "controlling" it. And tax increases are off the table. And remember, "controlling" spending only becomes an option if the Canadian economy doesn't become a magic beanstalk in the next eighteen months, growing at a faster rate that it ever has in our history as a nation.

Predictably, everyone but small children are laughing their asses off at this sad and silly attempt at economics.

The country's budget watchdog and some of Canada's leading economists are contradicting Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, saying he cannot balance the books without raising taxes or slashing spending.

Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page warned Monday Canada could be headed back to the financial bad old days of the 1970s and 1980s when the country was crippled by public debt.

"We are going to have to take drastic measures, either spending reduction or tax increase, to get us back to balances," said Page, known for his outspoken assessment of government spending.

He said Ottawa doesn't appear to have any fiscal targets in mind "and that's not a good place to be."

Oh, I almost forgot, Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff agrees with the fantastical and ridiculous fiscal theories of Harper and Flaherty. Which, in a "circle of life" sort of way, brings us back to the imminent threat of democracy to fiscal stability.

As you might remember, Harper said that "We're in a minority Parliament situation and the first thing that happens is a vote of confidence and there will be votes of confidence and election speculation for every single week after that for the rest of the year."

Well, Ignatieff went to that well this past summer and learned that he's the worst politician in human history, blowing sixteen points out of his own ass in less than a month. That pretty much ensures that the Liberals aren't returning to that poisoned well anytime soon. Christ, the Grits have unofficially telegraphed that they aren't going to bring down the government for at least another year!

By the way, Iggy believes the same moronic things that the Tories do! Why in the fuck would they bother taking political responsibility for it when Harper and Flaherty are willing to walk that particular plank? The chances of a Liberal non-confidence vote in the next year are about the same as my grown a fourteen-foot cock ... out of my forehead.

So I'll ask my friends who have supported the Tories in the past three elections: What exactly is the difference between them and the Liberals? They're both either lying or stupid. One just happens to hold traditional parliamentary democracy, constitutional order, and the fucking rule of law in lower esteem than the other.

Is there any reason left to support these motherfuckers, anymore?